Daily writing, day 2

[fencerm2]

So before anyone harasses me...yes, I did write for more than an hour again yesterday!

I did about a half hour before fencing, then another 40 minutes or so before bed.

Two days down. A lifetime ahead. But then, this IS the career I want...so its a good thing!

I just wish my friends were overall doing better. EVERYONE seems to be kind of down. So what can we do to improve our moods, and improve our outlooks?

For myself, I chose to stop being so easily distracted, and write for at least an hour every day. This is already beginning to make me feel better.

So for everyone else - I suggest you chose a SINGLE thing to focus on. Something that will make you feel good. Call me an optimist - but I believe ANY sense of achievement dispels negativity, and begins an UPWARD spiral...

Yeah, I might be crazy...but only in the best sense of being crazy. :-)

Comments

[weezeld.livejournal.com]

Hey, you know what's just as important as writing? Reading. Maybe if you find yourself getting burned out you can alter you initial statement to "I must write or read for at least one hour each day"

Reading other authors will help stimulate your own mind for writing. Granted, you don't want to fall into a habit of reading a great new novel every day for a week and not writing instead, but maybe you can find a way to intersperse (sp?) them and do a little bit of both.

I'm also not just talking about reading Sci-Fi/Fantasy stuff that it's the genre that you are writing. While certainly an important component, it's just as important to read cross-genre stuff, classics, poetry, magazines, newspapers, best-selllers,...the works...

I'm feeling a sense of achievement at work finally. I was struggling to rewrite some code and some reports to support credit card machines in the tollbooths at one of our facilities. I hit a stumbling block and things we're tying out correctly. I finally stopped trying to go one way, and started over totally from scratch. At least now I'm making progress. I'll eventually have to get back on the other problem, but I wasn't hung up on it. The progress on other parts of the project helped to revitalize me.

Granted, I was working on it when my RSS notifier told me that you had just posted this article, and of course I wanted to respond... so that tells you a little bit about *that* level of commitment... /me shrugs.

[joyeuse13.livejournal.com]

I'm going to the gym every day this week...and seeing if I can keep it up next week.

(Well, except Mondays, bc we have choir practice in the evenings.)

[math5.livejournal.com]

So for everyone else - I suggest you chose a SINGLE thing to focus on. Something that will make you feel good.
This I do already ;)
You'll notice this LJ is working part chatting and part support group anyway, which is good I think.