I still can't remember what reading is like. It's been so long since I've been able to curl up and enjoy a book. Writing comes in fits and starts (definitely nowhere near the amount that I'd planned and hoped for), which is something. I worked up the courage to show a short to my BFF who is also a content writer in her daytime job life, and asked her to rip it to pieces. I need to rewrite and rework and take on board the amazing feedback, and the clock is definitely ticking on getting that done.
I also need to get in touch with my writing group. We've all been very quiet of late (at least, I hope we all have and I haven't been secretly cast from the group- ah, insecurities, rearing their ugly heads once more!), but I find their presence so helpful and I learn so much that I really need to get back in touch when I finally manage to unjumble my life.
Not that it's hugely jumbled. It's just that the things that need to be done IRL (as opposed to IWL- In Writing Life) are so time consuming. And a lot of it is caused by more of those pesky resolutions. Work- focusing more on things that will further that career instead of getting by with the day to day is definitely more time consuming than it has any right to be. Health- I've turned into a crazy person who awakes before 6am to go to the gym, and then sometimes goes to a class in the evenings too, which means that by 9.30 I am exhausted and ready for bed. I used to be a night owl, scribbling well into the night, and then finishing off with an hour or more reading time. Now I'm out like a light by 10.30! And the general living- doing the things I need to do to stay sane, like going to a movie or for a drive or a burst of shopping or enrolling in a MOOC.
Hopefully I learn how to juggle a bit better, and stop making excuses. And then maybe I'll be able to write more than the synopsis for a ridiculous shark movie script (which is entirely the BFFs fault as she is obsessed with them, and they always seem to be on the telly in our house, and it must have subconsciously inspired me).
I also need to get in touch with my writing group. We've all been very quiet of late (at least, I hope we all have and I haven't been secretly cast from the group- ah, insecurities, rearing their ugly heads once more!), but I find their presence so helpful and I learn so much that I really need to get back in touch when I finally manage to unjumble my life.
Not that it's hugely jumbled. It's just that the things that need to be done IRL (as opposed to IWL- In Writing Life) are so time consuming. And a lot of it is caused by more of those pesky resolutions. Work- focusing more on things that will further that career instead of getting by with the day to day is definitely more time consuming than it has any right to be. Health- I've turned into a crazy person who awakes before 6am to go to the gym, and then sometimes goes to a class in the evenings too, which means that by 9.30 I am exhausted and ready for bed. I used to be a night owl, scribbling well into the night, and then finishing off with an hour or more reading time. Now I'm out like a light by 10.30! And the general living- doing the things I need to do to stay sane, like going to a movie or for a drive or a burst of shopping or enrolling in a MOOC.
Hopefully I learn how to juggle a bit better, and stop making excuses. And then maybe I'll be able to write more than the synopsis for a ridiculous shark movie script (which is entirely the BFFs fault as she is obsessed with them, and they always seem to be on the telly in our house, and it must have subconsciously inspired me).
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