November 16, 2007
I Know I Had It Here Somewhere…
Let me make one thing perfectly clear.
I am NOT an obsessive personality.
I’m not obsessive, not it the least little bit, and…and…
Hmmm.
Wait a minute…don’t exactly like where that sentence is placed. I think it might be better down…
Here. Yes. Now, where was I?
One day this week, I stayed up until 6:00 a.m. to finish reading/editing a few chapters for a submission before going to bed. No, it wasn’t Nano. No, not a deadline. And never mind that I had to be up at 10:30 and work the next day, or that I’d had little sleep the night before, or that I’d be dead on my feet, etc. I was going to finish going over that piece, one freaking word at a time, and get it mailed that night—er, morning, because I’d told myself I would.
I am not obsessive. There are things, however, that I can obsess about.
Like not being able to find something. If I can’t find something here at home, and I know durn well it’s here SOMEWHERE, I will look for that sucker come hell or high water, even if it means trashing the whole house to find it. 
Inevitably, I do.
And I prefer to think of it as determination, thank you. 
Are there things you obsess about in your writing? In your reading? In your daily life?
C’mon now, speak right up. Your secret’s safe with us. 
“And I prefer to think of it as determination…”
And I to think of it as concentration.
Dedication is also a nice word.
It’s the same thing. Init?
Not being able to find something?
Me too. I don’t like physical mysteries.
About my writing, I don’t THINK I obsess but you and Dennie might be able to argue that point
Obsessive? Ha. Only about everything,
Moi obsessive–if I said no lightening would stike my house–five or six times!
I made a spreadsheet for my books when I couldn’t find a $4.00 grammar book–never did find it, now have over 1200 books listed in my “what I have in the house” collection of books!
Writing wise, hmm, I am sure there is something I am obsessive about, but can’ think of it ’cause it probably seems normal to me!
Ames. . . . LOL . . . I’d never tell!
It’s not being obsessive. It’s being extremely focused. Like when I lose a piece of paper. I know it’s somewhere. Let me check in all my drawers. On top of the fridge. In my room. My kids room. The cabinets. All my jeans. All my shirts with pockets. Might as well check the desk. Hmm. *shifts papers*I’ve been looking for this and this. Still can’t find the other paper. Better check all my purses…. Not obsessive at all.
In my writing I usually get obsessive *clears throat* extremely focused when I’m sssooo close to being done. If I only have 25 pages left to write you bet I’m staying up to write them. If only the last 100 pages need to be read over and revised I can do that. Reading/Revising 100 pages vs. Writing 100 pages is going to take me less time to do than the latter. So why not? Who really needs sleep? The dead?
Okay, maybe it is obsessive.
Honey, I obsess about commas, so you know I’m all over this.
Oh yeah, I’m obsessive. About too many things to list. And not finding things, I’m bad at that, and the truly annoying things is when it happens and I’ve just put the bloody thing down!
“Are there things you obsess about in your writing? ”
ahem. I refuse to answer that question on the grounds it may incriminate me. ::passes bribe over to crit partners to buy their silence::
Vanessa……..just a tad but it shows in the quality of your writing.
Okay Okay I obsess toward the end….usually about getting stuff Just Write.