More process: Writing is Hard

[ellenkushner]

Holly Black started it - my reply:

You, too, huh? Maybe it's solar flares or something. I'm on our vaunted Writers' Retreat in Wisconsin, and am mostly adding to the creative ferment by announcing loudly and often that this story is a disaster and why did I ever think this would work?

Thank god I travel with my own personal editorial genius. Byron had a physician; I have Delia.

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Physics Ruels!

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

. . . but yer kidding, right? I mean, you're just saying there are solar flares when actually there aren't and really we're just stupid . . . .

But I'm liking this life! I get my own personal traveling editor, *and* a physicist! (And I'm not even Duchess yet....)

Re: Physics Ruels!

[tasiha.livejournal.com]

Well, a solar flare would lead to increase in solar neutrinos... neutrinos hardly *ever* interact, but if there are more of them, there's a higher probability of an interaction occurring with, for example, your brain... triggering random neural processes to make you suddenly think of something else whenever "The Next Scene" is about to be written in your head.

So. Yes.

(actually if you check out the real time monitors at NOAA, here, http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/index.html, you'll see there isn't much going on of late. But there are daily fluctuations!)