Oops! And feeling overwhelmed
May. 30th, 2024 08:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jon_chaissonI forgot that yesterday was Dreamwidth blog entry day! My head has been elsewhere these past few weeks for varying reasons and I'd completely forgotten about posting here.
Speaking of blogs, I'm putting both Welcome to Bridgetown and Walk in Silence on a brief hiatus because I haven't had the proper time to write entries AND work on Theadia AND do my daily words AND fit in some kitty attention time. And to be honest I just haven't had the mental spoons to come up with posts lately. I'm really wondering if I should just cut the two down to once a week for each when I don't have some ongoing themed series going on for either of them. I hate that I have to cut back but I'm back at the level where I feel like I'm phoning it in sometimes. I'm thinking maybe that once-a-week schedule might be semi-permanent going forward, though, because of that. I'd rather post something of interest rather than "I listened to (x) today" or talk about some writing process that I've already posted about previously.
As for the daily words, I'm three days away from writing a full year's worth without missing a day (sort of -- the 750Words site lets you catch up by writing 1500 words for each day you miss). Will I keep the daily run after that? Maybe? Or I might go back to what I'd done previously and take the weekends off? We'll see how I feel about it on Sunday.
Interestingly enough I don't feel as though the Day Job is cutting into my creative time, because it really doesn't. I could easily utilize my downtime and breaks a lot better if I just stop being so damn lazy about it. I'm not asking for an intense writing session every time...just some note-taking will do. Planning out the scene I'm about to write later that day or the next, for instance. I know...I talk about that a lot. It's just a super bad passive habit of mine to pull out my phone and dick around on the internet, and I'm not even trying to shake it at this point and I'm mad at myself for it.
ANYWAY. Obviously I'm not getting anywhere by being overwhelmed and passive at the same time, so I need to change things up.
Speaking of blogs, I'm putting both Welcome to Bridgetown and Walk in Silence on a brief hiatus because I haven't had the proper time to write entries AND work on Theadia AND do my daily words AND fit in some kitty attention time. And to be honest I just haven't had the mental spoons to come up with posts lately. I'm really wondering if I should just cut the two down to once a week for each when I don't have some ongoing themed series going on for either of them. I hate that I have to cut back but I'm back at the level where I feel like I'm phoning it in sometimes. I'm thinking maybe that once-a-week schedule might be semi-permanent going forward, though, because of that. I'd rather post something of interest rather than "I listened to (x) today" or talk about some writing process that I've already posted about previously.
As for the daily words, I'm three days away from writing a full year's worth without missing a day (sort of -- the 750Words site lets you catch up by writing 1500 words for each day you miss). Will I keep the daily run after that? Maybe? Or I might go back to what I'd done previously and take the weekends off? We'll see how I feel about it on Sunday.
Interestingly enough I don't feel as though the Day Job is cutting into my creative time, because it really doesn't. I could easily utilize my downtime and breaks a lot better if I just stop being so damn lazy about it. I'm not asking for an intense writing session every time...just some note-taking will do. Planning out the scene I'm about to write later that day or the next, for instance. I know...I talk about that a lot. It's just a super bad passive habit of mine to pull out my phone and dick around on the internet, and I'm not even trying to shake it at this point and I'm mad at myself for it.
ANYWAY. Obviously I'm not getting anywhere by being overwhelmed and passive at the same time, so I need to change things up.
