Impression management. Measured words. Think before you write. Intentionality, thought-FULL-ness is all. Be politically correct, especially if that’s not your usual inclination. Diagram your structure, have your measurable outcome in sight.
This ain’t no disco. This ain’t no party. This ain’t no foolin’ around!
Stop making sense. Put pen to paper, fingers to keyboard. Slop a little coffee over that mess, but avoid the hard drive.
Don’t stop. Believin’. Let out all those feelings.
Your job right now is to get your foot off the muse’s tail and let it gallop around the room.
I love a morning write.
© Liz Husebye Hartmann (2017)
Carrot Ranch Prompt (11/30/2017): In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story that includes self-care. Does the character need it? What does the character do? Think about how you can use this action to deepen a character or move a story. Go where the prompt leads.
Valley of the Trolls 
This feels like what it is.
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Wonderful. Love the “get your foot off the muse’s tail.” I love that free write and sometimes saying what is not politically correct can change a nation’s direction.
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It’s about letting go of the constraints and looking at what’s really there. If it is actually TOO awful to be funny, one can always delete, shred, or burn the evidence! 😉
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Absolutely – I’m all for write first behind closed doors and open them after the first edit.
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Great positioning of the rigidness of rules and the messiness of the write unimpeded. My favorite line (which further brought up the distant scream of a rocker on stage): “Your job right now is to get your foot off the muse’s tail and let it gallop around the room.” Yeah!
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I’ve been stressing over structure and planning on some of my work (and life), and needed some inspiration to let loose and play.
Thanks to the Ranch for encouraging my muse to gallop!
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Yes, I write much better in the latter mode.
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It’s more fun, for sure!
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I only play orchestral music while writing – that way lyrics do not creep onto the page.
Liz…..when that happens, keep a fly-swatter handy to whack them.
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Sadly, it’s all in my addled bean…
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