This is my other journal

This is my other journal. I created The Escapist Club for gaming related subjects. This is for everything else.

The name of this journal refers to the trouble i have coming up with the right words when i'm writing. Speaking is a lot easier, but when i need to commit something to the possibility of extended existance, i often find myself stuck at critical points. It always seems vitally important that i express myself properly. So i write and rewrite, consult the dictionary and the thesaurus, and even set the work aside. Setting aside is not an actual creative strategy for me, btw, i have a lazy subconscious that doesn't like to tick away at a problem in the background whiile i'm doing something else.

Even naming this journal was an example of that. I didn't necessarily intend to use that theme. But other things i thought of, like the names of Steely Dan albums, or references to attitudes, or to the miscellany i'm planning to put here, were all taken as Blogger addresses. So were references to this problem as well. No surpirse, i can't be the only one. But eventuially i found a name that was available and meaningful so i decided to run with it.

The folks at National Novel Writing Month refer to this problem as "your inner editor". I have failed twice to finish the project because i couldn't suppress mine. We'll see how i do this year.