The perfect writing setup has nothing on the white space of work documents and spreadsheets
Why is this happening?
I feel like deciding to sit down and write has literally the worst results when it comes to actually sitting down and writing.
It's not that my writing setup never works for me. And by setup I don't mean anything special, just a laptop with a cup of coffee or something, the main point being that it's a space/time which I've dedicated to writing. But it works way less than I expected it to when I first decided to take a shot at writing a fictional story, and I think I'm going to just stop trying to make it work.
Maybe humans really are better at creativity when they're actively doing things. You hear that a lot, but I'm starting to see it with intensity in myself. So far, I have written around 13,000 words. Almost all of that was the result of productive procrastination while at work, and written directly onto work reports or excel spreadsheets, usually sandwiched between other paragraphs of actual real life material that isn't random bullshit from my head. I always cut it out and paste it to my story document when I'm done, though I have a constant fear some of it will end up making it through lol.
Last night while I was lying in bed trying to sleep, at around 9:45pm I had the sudden idea of trying to write a little of my story on my phone. So I grabbed it and wrote 200 words in 2 or 3 minutes. That isn't a lot, but it would have taken 15 to 20 minutes had it been pre-meditated.
Like I said, I think I'm genuinely done with telling myself I'm going to sit down and write and will just let it happen wherever and however, including on my phone which seems agonizing compared to a real keyboard.
I'm sure others have had this experience or something similar but has anyone else decided to completely abandon dedicated writing sessions?