I seem to burn out at about forty-five to fifty minutes, then spend a similar amount of time where I keep pulling away from it but then think of some clarifying change I need to make, usually just a word or a few words, and almost always in about a dozen places. I think I'm a lot slower toward the latter part of the first forty-five, but I don't know if there's a consistent flagging point. Feels like I was working on the last few lines for the last half? Probably just a subjective impression - I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn most of it comes in the first ten minutes, maybe even five, and that from then on it all becomes a desperate attempt to give shape or finish to the relics of a lost impulse. And then the impulse to even do that fades.
Weirdly consistent phenomenon, over the years. Haven't checked but my sense is the longer ones are about the same length, for this reason. I think about it a lot because I wish I could induce it. The caring about one's own ideas enough to connect them. Not even because I think it would get me somewhere in life - it's just such a neat way to be.
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Date: 2015-06-23 03:51 pm (UTC)Weirdly consistent phenomenon, over the years. Haven't checked but my sense is the longer ones are about the same length, for this reason. I think about it a lot because I wish I could induce it. The caring about one's own ideas enough to connect them. Not even because I think it would get me somewhere in life - it's just such a neat way to be.