I've missed blogging! Actually I've missed a lot of things. I've been sick for weeks... and before that life was insane because someone I was close to was in crisis and...yeah. It's just been crazy but I'm getting better slowly but surely and I'm happy to blogging again!
Yesterday was the first time in a month and a half that I had sat down to work on Misfits, my NaNoNovel. That's just sad. I have done writing here and there in the mean time, book reviews, a few writing exercises, but not touched the book. I know that the stress I've been under is a big part of it, but I also think that part of it comes down to scheduling.
I hate schedules, which makes it very hard for me to put myself on any kind of one. Part of it is that I can be very ADHD, so schedules tend to annoy me because I have a hard time focusing on what I'm supposed to be focusing on when I'm supposed to be focusing on it. So for a long time I've given myself a schedule of "you must do this and this at some point in the day" and just tackled it in whatever order felt "right" to me that day.
The problem with that is that the things I want to do, or have motivation to do for whatever reason, get done. The things that I don't want to do? Not as much.
So I'm trying out a new schedule. It still has a lot of flexibility to it, but I'm assigning chunks of my day to certain tasks (like writing!) and then leaving some vagueness to how I approach the use of that time. I've also put into my new plan time for me to get sick or have migraines (which I do a lot) or for other things to disrupt my schedule. I'll let you guys know how it goes!
~ Ruthie ~
Does that mean that you don't want to do your NaNonovel? Or is it just that you've been out of sorts & not doing much at all?
ReplyDeleteI assume this means you're feeling a lot better, though? I hope so!!
I honestly thing things happen when they want to happen and forcing things just makes you anxious and unhappy-I actually read somewhere that you should wake up and ask yourself what you really want to do and do it, and repeat the same thing throughout the day.
ReplyDeleteI keep trying to implement that into my daily life, but I keep forgetting. Lol
Glad you're back and better! Fingers crossed it stays that way :)