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Reminder we are having a party tomorrow! 2pm to whenever. Celebrating autumn. I need to plan out my autumn baking.
*stretch* It's been a really hectic few weeks. Dizzyingly hectic. I finally got a chance to sit down with Judah and figure out our schedules for the next little while, which helps. My schedule for the next few days is scary-packed.
But look, here is a cool thing I did. I identified the things in my life that I should do daily lest I be very cranky that I didn't get to them. Writing, knitting, reading, and a little exercise. I don't exercise like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tithenai, but then I am not able-bodied! I just need to take a good walk every day.
So what I've been doing is sitting down, trying to force the writing from a cold start (when I haven't been sidelined onto other stuff altogether, which has been the case most of the summer), and getting frustrated when that doesn't work. I then punish myself by not letting myself do anything fun the rest of the day because I got insufficient work done. Because if I didn't write, I don't deserve downtime, etc.
Thing is, the reading is an important feed-by-brain + relaxing thing, and the knitting is an important productive-activity + relaxing thing, and taking those away is the opposite of help.
So yesterday I could not kick my writerbrain into gear. Instead of going AAGH - I picked up my more complicated knitting to use it as a meditational focus thing.
And it worked; my subconscious linked two important things, and my writerbrain took off on the story, and when I finished the row I went and wrote. Got 1400 words.
First time I've gotten writing done in ages.
Also, I paid attention and when I got to the point of falling out of focus and spinning my wheels, I stopped instead of trying to slog along.
So we'll see if that works! (I read in the afternoon, and walked three miles in the evening.)
And now I am going to go get *coffee*. Which I haven't yet. Mrph. G'mornin'.
*stretch* It's been a really hectic few weeks. Dizzyingly hectic. I finally got a chance to sit down with Judah and figure out our schedules for the next little while, which helps. My schedule for the next few days is scary-packed.
But look, here is a cool thing I did. I identified the things in my life that I should do daily lest I be very cranky that I didn't get to them. Writing, knitting, reading, and a little exercise. I don't exercise like
tithenai, but then I am not able-bodied! I just need to take a good walk every day.So what I've been doing is sitting down, trying to force the writing from a cold start (when I haven't been sidelined onto other stuff altogether, which has been the case most of the summer), and getting frustrated when that doesn't work. I then punish myself by not letting myself do anything fun the rest of the day because I got insufficient work done. Because if I didn't write, I don't deserve downtime, etc.
Thing is, the reading is an important feed-by-brain + relaxing thing, and the knitting is an important productive-activity + relaxing thing, and taking those away is the opposite of help.
So yesterday I could not kick my writerbrain into gear. Instead of going AAGH - I picked up my more complicated knitting to use it as a meditational focus thing.
And it worked; my subconscious linked two important things, and my writerbrain took off on the story, and when I finished the row I went and wrote. Got 1400 words.
First time I've gotten writing done in ages.
Also, I paid attention and when I got to the point of falling out of focus and spinning my wheels, I stopped instead of trying to slog along.
So we'll see if that works! (I read in the afternoon, and walked three miles in the evening.)
And now I am going to go get *coffee*. Which I haven't yet. Mrph. G'mornin'.
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Sadly, we will probably not come tomorrow as we are still in Unpacking Mode.
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Such a fantastic mix! Go you!
I don't exercise like tithenai, but then I am not able-bodied!
omg the fact that you used me as an example of a Person Wot Exercises in this sentence is making me deeply blushy. I would NEVER HAVE THOUGHT that this would become an identifying characteristic.
Movement is crucial to writing, for me. I need to move out of one space and into another; my brain thinks most clearly when I'm walking; if I've been lying around for a while doing little I can't just suddenly start writing. There needs to be movement, change, purpose. A day that starts with me turning on the laptop goes very differently than a day that starts with me dancing to Kate Bush.
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Thing is, the reading is an important feed-by-brain + relaxing thing, and the knitting is an important productive-activity + relaxing thing, and taking those away is the opposite of help.
This is a lesson I figured out for myself recently.
I read less when I'm in school, but since graduating in May, I've been reading INSANE quantities. But, I need input for my brain that isn't just news or keeping up with my friends.
And, I haven't been able to knit or crochet recently (I need to finish up a project, my wrists have been having issues, excuses, etc) and I forgot how much that adds to my overall well-being and feeling of usefulness.
I still need to DO something about it; sometimes I'm reading when I should be doing other things, and I need to find that next crafting project... but it's nice to see that I'm not the only intelligent person who forgets these things!
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And you are a badass exercising person! I really admire your strength and tenacity on that, y'know.
I have often told people that I'm pre-writing on my walks. It works it all out in my head, and I'm eavesdropping on scenes, and by the time I get home I have stuff to Put on Paper.
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