I hate my conscious brain right now. I have all the elements present for a great story: Drama, conflict, character interactions, a good ending.....but for some reason, I just can't get all the elements to come together like they should. My characters have face-value relationships with great potential for a higher-level relationship of symbolic nature. The ground work is all layed out. I just gotta build on it. Yet, for whatever reason, I just cannot get it all to come together. My conscious brain can't quite grasp what my subconscious is trying to communicate.
k, that was confusing....I don't know if you all ever write a bunch of papers or anything, but my best writing is when I get into this trance. I don't even realize what I'm writing. I just write. I get it all out and then I go back and see what I did. You know it's good when you don't remember what you just wrote. If I have to stop every sentence and think about what comes next, then I know the story is going to be crap.
So, in other words, when I'm doing this creative writing stuff, my best work happens when I allow my subconscious to take over and do all the work. Then, I go back and make corrections and try and figure out what I really wanted to do with the story (thats my conscious). In the story I'm revising now, I have a failure of communication between my subconscious and conscious writing minds.