Check In Day 6

[fleetsparrow]

Hello, all!

How was today's writing, if anything happened?

My apologies for the delay in posting.  Today was, shall we say, not one I'd like to repeat.  But it does lead me to our discussion!

Discussion:  When your day is overall bad--not just mediocre, but actively horrible--how does that affect your writing?  Do you try to write to calm yourself/get back into a better mood?  Do you call the whole thing a wash and try again the next day?

Comments

[linaewen]

I had a day like that yesterday and today is sort of not great either. Usually I do a brain dump and complain about all my troubles in a typed up document just to get it all out, but that's usually all I can manage as far as writing goes on a bad day.

[fleetsparrow]

That sounds like a good idea, honestly. At least the brain dump is over, it's all out and can be fiercely deleted, if wanted!

[blessedpictures]

Really depends on how bad the day itself was and what I'm working on. Usually I don't write on a day like that but sometimes I'll write something particularly nasty just to get the feelings out of my head.

[fleetsparrow]

I like this method. Writing through the feelings sounds like a good way to get to the other side of them.

[blessedpictures]

It can really help, if you just let it go. It can also make it worse if you go in the wrong direction, hah.

[dandelionblizzard]

Sometimes I actually write heaps on bad days – I use it as a way to distract/comfort/center myself.

[fleetsparrow]

Yay! One day, I hope to reach that level. I'm definitely all for things that help re-center.

[dandelionblizzard]

It's totally not every bad day, by the way. Some of them are really draining and then others give me a lot of 'bad' energy (anxiety or anger) – that's what I can actually work with. If I'm basically falling asleep there's no way I can string together a sentence haha.