Sneaky Moments
My writing regimen is a little scattered what with my return to work. I got a solid two hours yesterday morning, and yielded a very nice 1k of words out of it. Quota had been met for the day and I was happy. There was no need to stress or overthink the process or the day, I was in and it felt good.
Then, after dinner, and walking the dog, and doing the dishes, I was given a nice little half hour window with which to occupy myself. I have to stay up until 9pm to get the dog tired to go to bed. Any earlier a set down time and she’s liable to chew all of the newspaper I lay down and just make stupid noises for an hour because she’s too amped. Luckily, and this is no lie, the dog loves it when I write. She sits next to me at the desk and just rests her head for a little while. It’s awesome, so I had the perfect excuse to settle her down.
In that half an hour I got a sneaky 651 words down and then could happily shut down the computer knowing my day had been completely successful.
It was kind of cool to grab such a small moment and make it work for me. I had to be focused and not allow any distraction to get me, and I was happy with what I got. A chapter finished and the base for the next one laid for me, which I’ve been steadily building on this morning.
There’s always time to write, you just have to use it.
So go on and use it, you know you want to.
Posted on January 28th, 2010 by ryan
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