Work work work work-work-work (for god's sake...) - with added Pros! Ooh - suggest a theme, please!

[byslantedlight]

So, I work from home now, in a place of my own, with my own desk in a big room with a kitchen right there, and when I get bored with sitting at my desk I have a couch (actually two, but one's taken up with my fiddle), a standy-uppy-desk-thingie, and a bed that I can sit on and work too. Brilliant, right? Yes - except that I'm fairly reluctant to

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[moonlightmead]

This tactic - of checking in on my own post with updates - works well for me, so hope it does for you too.

Prompt: erm. How about including a bird's nest somewhere?

[byslantedlight]

Excellent - thank you!

I actually do check in to update progress as my standard tactic for getting on with it, but so far I've only been doing it as a private record in my diary - and I'm a pretty bad supervisor of me when it comes to making me get on with it. *g* So we'll see if doing it online, out loud is better! If nothing else, it might shame me into getting on - and with the writing too. I seem to do better if rewards involve other people, cos I know that on my own I can just swallow it down, or else have it anyway... *headdesk*

Right - birds nest! Now I have something to ponder while staring at equations in sentences... *g*

[shooting2kill]

Right, I hereby jump in and egg you on for more Pros....a theme? Hmmmm...falling in love at a conference? And I'm still in the process of rereading some of your stories and loving them e.g. Just Enough Rope, Let Nothing Ye Dismay, Love in the guise (again).

Your bookcases look fantastic, too, the best way to decorate a flat.

[byslantedlight]

Excellent - egging on is good! Hmmn, wonder if I can incorporate that with the birdsnest... *g* And I shall incorporate falling in love at a conference, since you got in pretty quick too, and I've not started yet. Right! *g*

So nice to hear that you're reading and liking my stories - it's like they're still alive out there... Thanks!

I just wish I had more walls for more bookcases - I have a feeling these ones will be used up reasonably fast...

[shooting2kill]

it's like they're still alive out there... Thanks!

Definitely. They're still some of the best stories I've read in Pros - grownup stories for grownups. (At least sometimes I'm a grownup.)

[byslantedlight]

Well thank you! That just makes me want to write and write... *g*

[milomaus]

Yay!! Five minutes for Pros!!!
Do you stretch the rules and write more during a break and then less during another? Or do you stick to your limit?

I really like the five pages rule!
I'm currently on a "cut ten blocks then work on my hexies while ripping CDs and listening to books" rule. Twice a day. Should get me to my goal by friday....inbetween cooking and washing and part time work.

How' s it going?

[byslantedlight]

Erm... well, I haven't actually earned a five minute writing break yet, cos I had to have lunch first, in what turned out to be my first break... I should have started this after lunch... But I'm starting now!

Not sure whether the rules will be stretched cos I haven't started yet - we'll see! It's really the work-rule that I need to stick to, to be honest...

I'm also fascinated - what are you cutting, and what's a hexie?! Maybe... patchwork? *g*

[milomaus]

I'm crossing my fingers for you!
And am looking forward to the resulting fic!!!

And you're right, it's all about patchwork! I sewed 63 blocks for a donation Quilttop, but they are all different sizes and wonky, so I. have to bring them in order.
And Hexies are Hexagons, handsewing. It's called english paper piecing over here.

[byslantedlight]

Oh, I remember doing patchwork hexagons! Every now and then I think I might do some more...

But right now I think I'll go and finish today's Pros story... what's going to happen, I wonder?! *g*

[heliophile_oxon]

Very impressed by your plan (both the plan itself, and the fact that you have a plan *g*)

and I like the sound of a bird's nest. Quite a few ways you could go with that ... yay for writing thoughts and plans!
And good luck with both work and fruitful intervals!

[byslantedlight]

Well, having a plan is one thing - now I need to actually carry through... it occurred to me that I had to have lunch first, which means I'm only just about to start the first 5 pages leading up to my first five minutes of writing, so... eeep!

Yeay plans, though! *g*

[owned_by_a_cat]

I can empathise so much right now. Zig-zag sprints work for me most days. 30mins work, 30 mins fiction writing. It's when my to-do-list gets too long that this very useful habit goes out of the window and nothing at all gets accomplished, neither work nor fiction.
I might join you for the checking in and keeping honest thing, though...

[byslantedlight]

I've been doing a progress-thing but only in my own diary, and it's very easy to cheat on myself... *headdesk* I like your zig-zag sprint though - half and half work and writing! Maybe if I'm very good, one day I'll be allowed to to it that way... *g*

And yes - do join me! We could have a virtual office! That's what I miss from going out to work, having people around to interact with when you need a head break... When lj was busier it worked brilliantly for that, but now it's so quiet, it's like tumbleweed in the virtual-corridors throughout the day...