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975.1 Author / Artist POV: Sometimes we end up In the Zone. Do you work until you drop? Or to a stopping point? Can you do anything but sleep afterwards? # imposter Toot
By @sfwrtr

Haven't reached that point with writing, that doesn't mean that I don't go way beyond my ages, determined by my body, usual abilities in over work myself in other hobbies. As I was younger I regularly walked and trained til I was so exhausted that I just dropped into sleep the moment I sat down.
This days it mostly happens if I have a good story to experience in front of me.
If I am writing I also stop myself from reaching this level of tiredness & exhaustion because I tend to get squibbly fingers and on a phone that can f*** up a shit ton. Or if your phone falls onto your face ... 😅

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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist 4d ago

#PennedPossibilities 975.1 — Author / Artist POV: Sometimes we end up In the Zone. Do you work until you drop? Or to a stopping point? Can you do anything but sleep afterwards? #imposterToot

@floofpaldi : Happy 21K day. Here's a present! 🎁

When I'm lucky enough to get into the zone, the world disappears, as does all awareness of my body. Once I wrote 13K words in 15 hours. Presumably I visited the lavatory, but then again I'm pretty sure I neither ate nor drank. Afterward? Unconsciousness.

These days, I'm lucky of if I get two of three hours of Zen time. Usually I treat myself with answering Mastodon prompts or something like a cookie.

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G H Learner Mar 26

976.1 — #imposterToot: Pick a character. How do they, or how would they, react to sleep deprivation? (by @sfwrtr

MC Bella can't sleep much for several nights in a row when she realizes what she has to do. She's exhausted, looks sick, and is a bit grumpier than usual. But since she's still very young and healthy, it doesn't incapacitate her or anything like that.

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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist Mar 26

#PennedPossibilities 976.1 — #imposterToot: Pick a character. How do they, or how would they, react to sleep deprivation?

@floofpaldi : Get some rest. Feel better. —RS

I'll pick the devil-girl. She's #autistic like her author, and seemingly OP thanks to her training and study and logical-literal take on the world, which grants her plenty of ability through raw unfettered stubbornness, but she's got lots of defects, emotional and psychological. Physical too, but that's because she refuses to take into account her body's limits, and has the scars to prove it. People say she has a death wish.

May be true.

She reacts to sleep deprivation by powering through, regardless. Her trained-into-her sense of responsibility causes her to have the back of anybody she's responsible for, or anyone hurt, or, if innocent, threatened. She makes herself sick fighting exhaustion. Logic requires mental energy and exhaustion obliterates it. This inevitably leads to mistakes. In this she demonstrates that despite her apparent maturity, she's still a teenager.

The good thing is that she's taught herself the soldier's trick of falling asleep instantly. Once it's over, boom, out.

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