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Weekend Update Gets Into the Groove
Sep. 4th, 2016 06:30 pmI have to say I'm quite happy to be back on the whiteboard schedule. There are days when it's tough to squeeze in everything I want to do, but the key here is to make the time. Another key is to have an idea of what I want to write about that day instead of coming in cold.
I can easily do my Daily Words within twenty minutes or so, and I can squeeze that in during slow moments during the Day Job. (And there's rarely a day when I truly am going flat-out with no break. Even when I do, I can still at least start it and finish it up later.) There have been a few days where I've been lazy and getting to it close to last minute, but I'm getting better at that.
The blog entries can be a bit of a bear, especially if I'm not quite sure what I want to talk about, but I think that's another key I have to focus on: not every blog entry needs to be an essay, it can also be a short moment of thought. I'm trying to mix it up a bit, so when I decide to up the number of entries per week, I'm okay with writing something of varying lengths.
The weekends have also been scheduled: my personal LJ posts will pretty much continue to show up here on Sundays until further notice. I'm also expanding the Daily Words so I can work on them at this time as well, so they truly are daily.
But one major change for the weekend is on Saturdays, in which the whiteboard says "Art". Before, this usually meant me breaking out my pens and drawing something somewhere, but I've decided that this is now going to encompass more creative works, including photography and music. In particular, I'd like to use Saturdays as the day I can start creating more book covers, and focus a bit more seriously on my photography as well.
Again, now that I'm on the back end of a superlong insanely complex project, I feel the need to get my act together and move forward the best way I know how. Which means right now, while juggling between this, the Day Job and Real Life, I really need to start making some solid long term plans. And lucky for me, I like making these plans.
Keepin' busy, but in a good way.
I can easily do my Daily Words within twenty minutes or so, and I can squeeze that in during slow moments during the Day Job. (And there's rarely a day when I truly am going flat-out with no break. Even when I do, I can still at least start it and finish it up later.) There have been a few days where I've been lazy and getting to it close to last minute, but I'm getting better at that.
The blog entries can be a bit of a bear, especially if I'm not quite sure what I want to talk about, but I think that's another key I have to focus on: not every blog entry needs to be an essay, it can also be a short moment of thought. I'm trying to mix it up a bit, so when I decide to up the number of entries per week, I'm okay with writing something of varying lengths.
The weekends have also been scheduled: my personal LJ posts will pretty much continue to show up here on Sundays until further notice. I'm also expanding the Daily Words so I can work on them at this time as well, so they truly are daily.
But one major change for the weekend is on Saturdays, in which the whiteboard says "Art". Before, this usually meant me breaking out my pens and drawing something somewhere, but I've decided that this is now going to encompass more creative works, including photography and music. In particular, I'd like to use Saturdays as the day I can start creating more book covers, and focus a bit more seriously on my photography as well.
Again, now that I'm on the back end of a superlong insanely complex project, I feel the need to get my act together and move forward the best way I know how. Which means right now, while juggling between this, the Day Job and Real Life, I really need to start making some solid long term plans. And lucky for me, I like making these plans.
Keepin' busy, but in a good way.
