Re: CHAT: Steg's wonderful .sig (and a question)

FFlores wrote:
>
> Grandsire, C.A. <grandsir@...> wrote:
>
> > Sometimes I completely abandon conlanging for
> > a while to write my short stories or poems, and sometimes I do the other
> > way round, but in any case I have to feel it right to do it. It's a kind
> > of "compulsive" behaviour I think. Do others among you have also this
> > kind of behaviour?
>
> I do. It applies to conlanging, to conculturing, to writing, and
> some other related creative hobbies (and subjects within those!).
> In Spanish we call them _rachas_, i. e. lapses of time (several
> days) during which everything seems to be fine and run smooth for
> a particular activity, while you "don't have time" for others...
> Unfortunately, _rachas_ usually have in common the fact that they
> wear out pretty soon and fade quickly, and sometimes it takes a
> month to catch another one. Call it an inspiration pit, if you
> like. :-(
>
        A month only? Sometimes it takes me a year! That's why my cycle of
short stories that was begun when I was 14 is still not finished...

> --Pablo Flores
>   http://draseleq.conlang.org/pablo-david/
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