I remember in my teens having the concept of a "headspace" set up like a motel 6 sorta deal and walking in there when I wanted to extrapolate ideas with the residents - let's be real, mostly just leaning in the doorway of Karel's room, running ideas by him while he gave me utterly worthless answers - it helped, it really did. When I distanced myself from that sort of facilitative experience, like, oh, that's cringe (though...it was the 10s, I probably said "fail"), my writing stalled out.
It didn't really pick up again until I got a good solid Hype Friend I could run things by and also really let myself have more internal life going on again. The cranial fiction I can tap into and also a few good meatspace listening ears... It does really help keep the juices flowing.
And what you touch on with the insecurities...it's where I'd like to get - at this point, having slipped back into that, where I'm writing for love, for adoration, for joy, the insecurities I feel are on the more technical level of my reach exceeding my grasp, so, it gives me areas to practice.
Re, AI: legitimately is so insulting. I took a cruise through character.ai and had a look quite some time back because it was what all the kids were talking about and... that's a c-list imitator. That ain't my mans.
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I remember in my teens having the concept of a "headspace" set up like a motel 6 sorta deal and walking in there when I wanted to extrapolate ideas with the residents - let's be real, mostly just leaning in the doorway of Karel's room, running ideas by him while he gave me utterly worthless answers - it helped, it really did. When I distanced myself from that sort of facilitative experience, like, oh, that's cringe (though...it was the 10s, I probably said "fail"), my writing stalled out.
It didn't really pick up again until I got a good solid Hype Friend I could run things by and also really let myself have more internal life going on again. The cranial fiction I can tap into and also a few good meatspace listening ears... It does really help keep the juices flowing.
And what you touch on with the insecurities...it's where I'd like to get - at this point, having slipped back into that, where I'm writing for love, for adoration, for joy, the insecurities I feel are on the more technical level of my reach exceeding my grasp, so, it gives me areas to practice.
Re, AI: legitimately is so insulting. I took a cruise through character.ai and had a look quite some time back because it was what all the kids were talking about and... that's a c-list imitator. That ain't my mans.