Daydreaming doesn't have to take place during the day. It can just as well happen at night. And although dreaming requires that you be asleep, you have to be awake to daydream. The funny things we talk about in linguistics.
Yesterday the lazy writer was daydreaming (instead of reading the paragraph on the page in her textbook about international marketing) about owning a chocolate shop in the shadow of the Alps, in Switzerland. In her daydream, a group of cyclist friends met in the chocolate shop after a race. One of them was gray-haired and rather old, but several of them were young. The lazy writer wondered to herself (with her eyes intently staring at the same paragraph) whether Manny the mammoth on Ice Age speaks the truth and, "Guys don't talk to guys about guy problems. They just... punch each other on the shoulder." The lazy writer watched the young men at the chocolate shop to see what they would do. They began...to talk. About guy problems. The lazy writer jumped up from her chair and plugged in her computer, resolved to record her daydream instead of (a) waiting for a better idea or (b) waiting until she finished her homework. In other words, she decided not to be lazy and just to write.
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| The cold spell broke and Pudding enjoyed snack-time outside! |
I know, I need to become the Resolved Writer! Or the Productive Writer! The Prolific Author!
ReplyDeleteIt's ok, I'm a lazy artist too. Sometimes we need a boost just to do the very thing we love doing. WHY! Haha, what is that drawing? You being super angry at yourself?
ReplyDeleteI know--isn't it contradictory? But YOU don't seem like a lazy artist to me--you're always making new paintings, and you post every week on your blog!
ReplyDeleteThat is me jumping up to plug in my laptop >:D