Today my writing ability sucks, but that's just a glitch. Not enough to call it writers' block. Enough to call it writers' vacation. They say (they?) after you write your novel put it in a drawer to simmer. After a time retrieve it from the drawer. I don't know what the state of "theys" drawers (and I will not go into the underwear pun) but mine have my grandchild's PJs in them. If I were to put my novel (assuming it's ready for a rest) my grandson would find it. He unfailingly finds what is hidden from him - electric plugs, hooks scissors, the sharper the better...) so because I would not want him to cut up my novel with scissors or poke with hooks, his PJ drawer would not be a good place. On the other hand, the concepts of "cut ups" comes to mind. The cut-up writing technique was devised by William S Burroughs and his friend John Giorno, a poet. William as you may recall and better if you don't - infamously shot an apple off his wife's head and missed. Missed the apple. I don't know if the case went to court, this was in Mexico. Do any cases go to trial in Mexico? The way cut-ups works is this: Take a page from a magazine or newspaper and cut the column of writing in half vertically so that the sentences are cut right down the middle. Then do the same with another article from another print source. Put the two pieces together, one from each source. Then you have your writing done for you. New sentences have been created! Of course some may not make sense, but if you read them all, you'll find some amazing juxtapositions that do make sense in a writer ly or poetry way at least. I use the cut up technique by proxy in my writing. That is to say, I retain the idea of juxtapositions of disparate ideas. Perhaps in one sentence the meaning may switch, for example this sentence in my novel in process, SEVENTEEN Chapter One:
"Thus, our mothers didn’t race after us with school sweaters like she did when I usually forgot. "
A simple switch from "our mothers" to "she did" perhaps not grammatically correct but not entirely incorrect either. And it's the writing that matters not interceding grammar. Not a lecture to you it's for me. Something about writing that clears things up. I hope to hear from you about what keeps you up at night, what speaks to you from daylight mares, etc... If you write, I love you.
"Thus, our mothers didn’t race after us with school sweaters like she did when I usually forgot. "
A simple switch from "our mothers" to "she did" perhaps not grammatically correct but not entirely incorrect either. And it's the writing that matters not interceding grammar. Not a lecture to you it's for me. Something about writing that clears things up. I hope to hear from you about what keeps you up at night, what speaks to you from daylight mares, etc... If you write, I love you.
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