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Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Wordstar, staying focused, being Trouble
Date: 22 Mar 2001 23:17:48 -0700
From: jmsatb5@aol.com (Jms at B5)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated

>I was wondering: do you still use WordStar? I recall reading a post of yours
>some time ago in which you indicated your fondness for it.

Would have, but it wasn't Y2K compliant and I had to dump it because it would
start corrupting files.

>o I surf the Net for
>a while to take my mind off the anxiety, and I end up wasting precious time
>procrastinating. When you were starting out, did you deal with anxiety like
>that? If so, how did you work past it?

This is gonna sound really awful, but...I've never had a problem with the
writing, so it's not something I've had to deal with.  I just write.  I don't
worry about it.  As somebody else once pointed out...on the dance floor, you've
got two guys...one guy is running the moves through his head; he's *trying to
dance*.  At the other end of the dance floor is Fred Astaire.  He's just
*dancing*.

I don't *try* to write.  I just *write*.

 jms

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