Am I Not Busy Enough?
I've been contemplating my productivity this week. wrisomifu has been helping me with that a bit, encouraging me to have a word count or writing experience to share each and every day. Even so, I'm incredibly scattered, and I have been for a while. I've got words for this fic, words for that one...sprinkling them around and ensuring nothing gets finished.
I checked back to two years ago on my Oh Life journal. Back then, in addition to my full time job (which I still have), my marriage (which I still have), and my parenthood duties (which I still have), I was writing nearly every day and posting with great frequency. Back then I could stick with a WIP and actually get it finished in a timely fashion.
Back then, in the Productive Times, I was also digital scrapping. So not only was I creating semi-artistic scrapbook pages but I was also part of an online creative team which meant I had regular scrappy assignments and articles to write. And I did! I did all of that! And I like to think I did it well. I certainly had fun doing layouts like this one:
So what happened? Well, we moved from a huge, airy apartment to a tiny, cramped one. I have no place to escape my family when I need to. I stopped scrapbooking over a year and a half ago, and dropped out of the creative team due to scrappy burnout.
Does this mean that I need to be busier? That I need to fill my time with more than writing and reading fics? I often feel I don't have enough time in the day to get anything done, but that's not true. What's the right formula? How can I regain my focus and my writing output?
I checked back to two years ago on my Oh Life journal. Back then, in addition to my full time job (which I still have), my marriage (which I still have), and my parenthood duties (which I still have), I was writing nearly every day and posting with great frequency. Back then I could stick with a WIP and actually get it finished in a timely fashion.
Back then, in the Productive Times, I was also digital scrapping. So not only was I creating semi-artistic scrapbook pages but I was also part of an online creative team which meant I had regular scrappy assignments and articles to write. And I did! I did all of that! And I like to think I did it well. I certainly had fun doing layouts like this one:
So what happened? Well, we moved from a huge, airy apartment to a tiny, cramped one. I have no place to escape my family when I need to. I stopped scrapbooking over a year and a half ago, and dropped out of the creative team due to scrappy burnout.
Does this mean that I need to be busier? That I need to fill my time with more than writing and reading fics? I often feel I don't have enough time in the day to get anything done, but that's not true. What's the right formula? How can I regain my focus and my writing output?