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[obscurepoet]

I have been trying desparately to find the time to sit down and write. This is, after all, what I supposedly do - right?  I am giving myself more time. I think I need it, I have had a lot of it, its true, but more time away from things like, producing and directing. More time to enjoy Faelyn. More time to figure out a better bedtime routine

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Mutual Muse-ing

[mr_ducktape]

Me too. Writing is something I never seem to find time for. (Of course, I've also never had quite the productive streak that you have.)

What I've been thinking about recently though is that it's not a matter of having time, it's a matter of MAKING time. Not just for writing, but for everything we do in our waking hours. Because it's not that writing isn't important to you, it's that right now your have so MANY important things in your life that it's less prioritized than it used to be. Which is okay. Soon enough it will start seriously calling out to you again to the point that it cannot be denied.

I, on the other hand, have no hubby or new baby as an excuse. So I've decided to once again try hitting a regular line of frequency & output, and see if that works. It has before, to a limited extent. Before it stopped. Maybe this time.

Good luck to us all?

Re: Mutual Muse-ing

[xandra_lj]

Yup-- I'm with you both on this: huge transformations in one's life do mean that life becomes richer and stranger than it could otherwise be without such sea-changes...and so things are also slightly scary because they're not the way they used to be, and nor are we. Sometimes it takes time to lie fallow, as it were, to let the ground relax until the next seeds are ready to germinate-- whatever those seeds might end up being.

Nevertheless, MAKING time for things that are important is essential-- something that I, too, am working on these days. Plenty of life stuff is going on, of course (see "richer and stranger" and "scary" above), but it's also important to keep creative projects in mind and put them down in whatever form they get expressed in-- internal critics etc. be damned. That's one of my goals this year, at any rate.

Indeed-- good luck, one and all!