Writing with a deadline.

With a lot of experimentation, I discovered I write well under pressure, with a deadline.  The big ah-ha moment was with Nanowrimo (www.nanowrimo.org).  I know that writing 50  000 words in 30 days is pure madness.  On the other hand, we are free to set any limits of words and time.  I do have a recent example.  I had to write around 500 words in one week.  I did it on the neck of time, just before the time limit.   My mind race with an idea.  Finally, I did it, even if the text isn't completely finished and it is a very first draft.

For some, the pressure of writing under those conditions may be too much.  I find it gives me the extra kick in the behind to get it done.  No time limit and I can wait years before starting to write a project.  Procrastination set in and it is always push to tomorrow.  With a time limit, I do have a will to write.  It is a live and write situation.  If not, it is a slow death on the inside.

On the other hand, with other craft, I don't have this urge to set time limits.  Maybe because I find other crafts more mind absorbing.  I loose a sense of time.  I do focus more easily.  It is as time is no longer essential.  No live or die to create.  I just create and being zen while doing so.

It is strange how my mind work.  I don't know why it is that way.  I can't explain it.  It is just so.  It is something about myself that I have discovered over the years.