{"id":198,"date":"2012-10-17T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tellest.com\/comfort-zone\/"},"modified":"2013-08-08T21:37:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T21:37:38","slug":"comfort-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/comfort-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Comfort Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poo Warning: This post reveals intimate <\/em>details about my writing method.\u00a0 If you or your loved ones hold sacred the – dare I say – art<\/em> of defacation, and do not want it soiled by my words, please, turn away now.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whenever I’m writing, it’s usually in a comfort zone.\u00a0 As I’ve stated before, typically, a hotel room does a great service to my creative side.\u00a0 The single best comfort zone that I have, however, is a bathroom.\u00a0 That’s right.\u00a0 If you’ve read any of my work, there’s at least an 85% chance that you’re reading inverted poop literature.<\/p>\n

But wait!\u00a0 I can compound the oddity quotient.\u00a0 You see, the main reason writing in the bathroom is so effective for me is that it just became comfortable after so long.\u00a0 The lavatory was a safe haven for me to escape to when I needed a break from anything else, whether that was family, or work or even my other hobbies.<\/p>\n

If it was feasible to write in the shower, I probably would.<\/p>\n

So\u00a0it’s been established that I\u00a0am\u00a0at my most relaxed when I’m dropping trou.\u00a0 But for me to truly feel absolutely at peace, I need to be as near to natural as possible.\u00a0 That means that I am practically naked when I’m scrawling my brain baby onto paper.\u00a0 Think about it.\u00a0 How else can you be that intimate with your hobby?<\/p>\n

Furthermore, breaking down the outside world helps to establish that personal connection that I truly need to find expressive dialogue and emotions in my work.\u00a0 If I had one readily available, I’d find comfort in a nice waterfall – but bees and flies and other things could preoccupy my time, so I find white noise elsewhere: a hair dryer.<\/p>\n

Friends and family have taken to referring to it as a dryer poop.\u00a0 It’s my little piece of heaven, for fifteen minutes at a time.\u00a0 I’m relaxed, I’m warm, and I’m naked.\u00a0 But that’s just the point.\u00a0 When I’m in that mentality, I’m as far away from reality as I’ve ever been.\u00a0 It’s in that state of relaxation that I can best displace myself, and write from the point of views of multiple characters.\u00a0 It’s practically an out-of-body experience.\u00a0 Fear me, for I am an almighty poop god!<\/p>\n

Now, that’s not to say that I can’t write elsewhere.\u00a0 In fact, that’s the point of this blog post.\u00a0 As I draw closer and closer to the end of a novel, the perimeter of the comfort zone seems to grow.\u00a0 I’m not sure if it’s because the intimacy of the project grows as I prepare to bid it a final adieu, or a need to express myself more often (usually attributed, I’m sure, to the volume of the story that falls into that last chapter or two).\u00a0 In any case, I can write just about anywhere.\u00a0 I’m a veritable Doctor Seuss character as it pertains to scribbles at this point.<\/p>\n

This becomes such an issue that –\u00a0despite the fact that I’ll finish The Enemy Within<\/em>, with the intent to put it away and not look at it for a month –\u00a0I will begin writing the follow-up to the novel within the next few days or even hours.\u00a0 When I finished As Darknes Falls<\/em>, I knew that I was going to be taking a huge step away from my original conceived notion of The Enemy Within<\/em>.\u00a0 I thought I’d need time to load the new ideas into my mind, but they were already buried somewhere in my mind, and I ended up renting a backhoe without any prior anticipation.<\/p>\n

Basically, it all boils down to this: over the next month or so, it becomes incredibly interesting for me as a writer.\u00a0 I can’t wait to see what insanity comes to pass!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Poo Warning: This post reveals intimate details about my writing method.\u00a0 If you or your loved ones hold sacred the – dare I say – art of defacation, and do not want it soiled by my words, please, turn away now. Whenever I’m writing, it’s usually in a comfort zone.\u00a0 As I’ve stated before, typically, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1UVey-3c","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}