Okay, I think I’ve crossed the point where writing has over consumed my life. But in order to explain I have to enter the realm of TMI, so brace yourself.
Yesterday I was engaged in marital relations (I’m trying to be circumspect here) and after I had my…cookie (Is this code working?) my mind sadly wandered. I’ve been married almost a decade people. And I started thinking about a story I want to write. I was mulling over my characters names. I needed a certain kind of name for the hero. I wanted it to be old fashioned. Bill? No, that was the name of my a$$hat ex-boyfriend. George? No, that’s the name of my a$$hat brother-in-law. Hmm, how about Henry?
So now I’m digging on Henry and my husband is doing his thing up there my mind moves to last names. I need a common last name that might be confused with other people. Jones. Perfect. I say Dr. Henry Jones in my head and realize that’s Indiana Jones’ name and that isn’t really going to work. Smith! Dr. Henry Smith.
If I had had an unexpected second…cookie I would have probably screamed, “Dr. Henry Smith!” and then I never would have heard the end of it. Luckily I wasn’t paying enough attention to…relations to run that risk.
So then we’re lying around in post-cookie coma mode my mind moves on to the heroine and I actually start asking, “What names can Nan be short for? Nanette, Nancy?” He had to know that my mind wasn’t on matters at hand. But that’s what you get when you marry a writer I guess.
Ever had any experiences like that? Are you ever just too much of a writer?
AJ
9 Comments
February 25, 2008 at 4:17 pm
ROFLMAO!!! AJ, you are a naughty girl!
Wow. I mean, I can’t even think of anything else to say to that. That’s just priceless…
February 25, 2008 at 6:16 pm
I have to say it – it has happened to me, a time or two! Ack!
Luckily, my hubby usually manages to redirect my attention, one way or another. Cookies galore! Yay!
Still…on occasion, I do find my mind wandering – especially when I’ve had to stop writing to take a cookie break. If you know what I mean.
And you obviously do…
February 25, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Yes I’ve done that. lol I’ve been married 11 years. But my mind is all over the place during sex so my thinking about characters is wedged between sexy thoughts, the back to plot, the sexy thoughts, then who will be voted out next on Survivor etc…
February 25, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Yeah, I don’t know Ginger, maybe its an ADD thing and not a writer thing. Its not like I’m not enjoying myself…
AJ
February 25, 2008 at 10:31 pm
LOL!
I actually think about my character’s sex life when I’m lying in bed first thing in the morning.
Alone. I like it that way.
February 25, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Yeah, I think of how I’d write what was happening. Would H do this that way, how would h react? But not just during the pursuit of cookies. Sitting next to him and having our silly banter puts me in the mind to infuse his mannerisms into the wip, somehow. And of course, especially since my hysterical laughter at being compared to a ferret, when I get ‘that look’ he knows it’s going to be written, somewhere.
February 26, 2008 at 2:23 am
This is probably tmi also, but I call it my cookie too. We’ll be out somewhere and DH will ’subtly’ ask if I want to get my cookie when we get home. I think I got the term from the movie Outside Providence. Anyway, you’re totally not alone, I do that w/ frequency…probably too much in fact. I think its b/c once I’ve gotten my cookie, my mind just wanders.
February 26, 2008 at 2:59 am
I’m with Leigh. I’m usually thinking “How would I write this particular….cookie experience?”
I often convince the Redneck to use “toys” and then write about it. LOL.
Most of the time, the Redneck employs overwhelming tactics with a SLEW of cookies to maintain my attention.
But then, I’m a baaaaaad girl.
February 26, 2008 at 3:25 am
I got it from outside providence too Katie.
I usually get a big handful of cookies before leaving the table too but last night that just wasn’t going to happen.