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The I'm Writing Thread.... Celebrate your pages written etc
cenwolfgirl:
lol
proberly
Starbeam:
--- Quote from: Zuriel on June 15, 2012, 04:28:58 PM ---Yep, it's always something getting in the way, isn't it?
Sometimes I think the world conspires to inhibit my creativity. :-\
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It only gets in the way if you let it. This blog- Time Management might be helpful. Or this one, Manipulation of Time, which equates time to money. And what it all boils down to is what are you doing instead of writing, and is it more important?
For example, I've used up 3 hours that could've been spent writing. Two of those hours were sorta related to writing-I was hashing stuff out with my husband, working through a Mexican standoff sort of scene. I spent about a half hour trying to look up something relating to a different post, and then about another half hour finding these links.
While I might be a slight bit annoyed at myself for doing all that instead of writing, I'm also not beating myself up for it because I made my weekly word goal yesterday. Some things you can't get around doing-school, work.
But you can find time there to write. I write during my lunch hour-the half that I'm not eating/reading. I've had to make sacrifices--I don't read anywhere near as much as I used to. If I'm lucky, I read a book a month. However, I'm also very lucky in that my day job allows me to be able to listen to audiobooks, sometimes, while I'm working. Which also feeds the writing side of my mind because I've noticed that while I listen to audiobooks, I'm picking up on the craft.
And now I have to go find the shatterpoint for this Mexican standoff to get my characters out of the kitchen they're trapped in. Either that, or sleep.
*edited for getting rid of the OMGblockoftext*
Zuriel:
--- Quote from: Starbeam on June 16, 2012, 04:45:50 AM ---It only gets in the way if you let it. This blog- Time Management might be helpful. Or this one, Manipulation of Time, which equates time to money. And what it all boils down to is what are you doing instead of writing, and is it more important?
For example, I've used up 3 hours that could've been spent writing. Two of those hours were sorta related to writing-I was hashing stuff out with my husband, working through a Mexican standoff sort of scene. I spent about a half hour trying to look up something relating to a different post, and then about another half hour finding these links.
While I might be a slight bit annoyed at myself for doing all that instead of writing, I'm also not beating myself up for it because I made my weekly word goal yesterday. Some things you can't get around doing-school, work.
But you can find time there to write. I write during my lunch hour-the half that I'm not eating/reading. I've had to make sacrifices--I don't read anywhere near as much as I used to. If I'm lucky, I read a book a month. However, I'm also very lucky in that my day job allows me to be able to listen to audiobooks, sometimes, while I'm working. Which also feeds the writing side of my mind because I've noticed that while I listen to audiobooks, I'm picking up on the craft.
And now I have to go find the shatterpoint for this Mexican standoff to get my characters out of the kitchen they're trapped in. Either that, or sleep.
*edited for getting rid of the OMGblockoftext*
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I was sort of half way joking, but RL does, on a regular basis, interfere and there's nothing I can do about that, unless I find a cave and go live as a hermit, so I try not to waste the free time I have. Lately I've been re-reading DF and that is consuming my extra time. Once I'm done with DF I should be back on a semi-regular schedule of writing. And my obsessions override everything else, which means I let many things go in order to write. And then when I look around and see the neglect, I madly clean or whatever needs to be done so I can get back to the computer. :P
I'm also picking up tips on writing as I read, though I'm not using audiobooks. I'm a very visual person, so audiobooks have no appeal to me, for that reason, and also because I like using my own imaginative voice for the dialogue.
And I'm also kinda weird that I usually, especially if it's a long story, need to print out the last few pages I've written and look at them as I would a book page and then edit. For some reason it's easier for me to get a feel of how the words flow, etc. That also means I'm using a lot of paper and ink at times. It's not efficient but it works for me. :)
Hope you get those people out of the kitchen soon! ;)
LDWriter2:
--- Quote from: Zuriel on June 17, 2012, 01:35:27 PM ---I was sort of half way joking, but RL does, on a regular basis, interfere and there's nothing I can do about that, unless I find a cave and go live as a hermit, so I try not to waste the free time I have. Lately I've been re-reading DF and that is consuming my extra time. Once I'm done with DF I should be back on a semi-regular schedule of writing.
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Yeah, RL can interfere quite easily at times...too easily.
But as to rereading DF Um,(Clears throat) Urm...I hate to tell you this but there's 13 novels published now--not sure if that includes "Side Jobs" and unless it takes you less then a week to read one--which would mean way too little writing time--number 14 will be out by the time you finish. All together it could take a year or more of waiting to get back on "a semi-regular schedule of writing".
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: LDWriter2 on June 17, 2012, 05:36:35 PM ---Yeah, RL can interfere quite easily at times...too easily.
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Fringe this week and visitors Friday-Monday means I'm not going to get to write anything until next week, but that's better than trying to push anything when I am as tired as I am now.
--- Quote ---But as to rereading DF Um,(Clears throat) Urm...I hate to tell you this but there's 13 novels published now--not sure if that includes "Side Jobs" and unless it takes you less then a week to read one--which would mean way too little writing time--number 14 will be out by the time you finish. All together it could take a year or more of waiting to get back on "a semi-regular schedule of writing".
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Seriously ? Most of the DF are short enough not to take me more than one night to read.
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