Well, not so much taking out my frustrations on the characters as channeling my depression on them. But hey, at least it was lots of words, and it did help me feel better.
Sometimes cathartic free writing is necessary to get things out of the way of the things you really want to be writing once that's sorted. :-) No wonder if your eyes start to cross a bit with your nonfiction project, though! And that sounds like fun about the article - I'm a big history geek and when I do research for my historical/alt-history fiction, I get all excited about things like "look, in the 1880s they were listing in each newspaper which travellers had come to town, professional titles and all, and which of the town's two or three hotels each was staying at! Aren't human beings delightfully odd?" Ao I can totally see how it would be fun tracking the progress of what counts as an early 1900s meme. :-)
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Date: 2018-09-07 08:11 pm (UTC)Sometimes cathartic free writing is necessary to get things out of the way of the things you really want to be writing once that's sorted. :-) No wonder if your eyes start to cross a bit with your nonfiction project, though! And that sounds like fun about the article - I'm a big history geek and when I do research for my historical/alt-history fiction, I get all excited about things like "look, in the 1880s they were listing in each newspaper which travellers had come to town, professional titles and all, and which of the town's two or three hotels each was staying at! Aren't human beings delightfully odd?" Ao I can totally see how it would be fun tracking the progress of what counts as an early 1900s meme. :-)