Drunken Owls and Other Delights

I 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.

 If I've learned anything over the course of my two-and-a-half-month hiatus, it's that I REALLY need to be doing something productive on a daily basis, no matter how small.  Otherwise I end up becoming lazy, overly introverted and a lot more moody.  (Well, more like releaning...I've gone through this cycle before, so I was well aware of what was happening once I noticed the familiar patterns.)  As much as I enjoyed the lower stress levels and the lack of deadlines other than a single novel release, I need to get back to work.

I'll be spending time this week coming up with ideas and planning out how I'd like to return to my creative outlets and be more social than I've been the last few months. I'll definitely be returning to the two WordPress blogs, but I'm going to keep it simple only do one entry a week for each of them for a while.  I'll be posting here on a more consistent basis.

And I most DEFINITELY need to get back into doing my daily 750.  I've let that one lapse for much too long.  I think it was partly due to finishing off both novels and nothing new to write, and needing to take a break so I could focus on revision work, but now that one of the two books are out in the wild, I need to restart work there.  As with before, I don't plan on forcing anything...I just want to get back in the habit, even if it's writing some random flash fiction.  I mean, I've written three novels that grew out of such exercises, so why change up what works, right? Heh.

Personal: Things are going to change up pretty soon for various reasons: A has a new job (yay!!) which is not from home at this time (boo!!), and various Day Job issues on my end may change at some future point (not sure when), so I'll need to rethink my hours and output anyway.  I'm also in need of getting back on the exercise gig again, so I'll need to carve out some time for that as well.

Anyway!  Enough blathering.  I need to take my afternoon break and get up off my butt for a few minutes.  

More soon!