At least, that's what it's going to feel like. On any given day, I can be on the net - surfing, checking my groups or emails, killing time - for four to six hours. I don't understand this compulsion to digest useless info or join yet another group, and I came to a conclusion the other day: I'm avoiding my writing under the guise of research.
Hubby asked e the other night how my writing's coming along. Um...I haven't touched a MS in...going on two weeks now. I don't know what let all the steam out of me, but I just haven't been able to pen anything. I'm stuck in a loop of plot-construct-research-research some more-try to plot...
You get the idea :) I'm a natural pantser, mind plotting my piece along the way, and trying to actually plot this next piece has completely gummed up my mental works. In any case, this has made me realize that I need to cut back my web browsing time. I'm going to try to limit myself to surfing for only two hours a day and spend the rest of the time in front of the computer spitting words onto page.
This should be interesting.
~Hetal
I'm a panster too. It's hard sometimes to sit down and focus on what's going to come next. I like to let the characters take over when they feel motivated. Unfortunately, I let them get away with that in my current WIP and they've really done some crazy things. Now I have to go back and fix it. But it keeps life interesting :)
ReplyDeleteHey Hetal, I think we all face periods of time when it's just plain hard work to sit down and create. The internet is a major time suck and it's easy to get distracted. Limiting it to a certain time frame sounds like a great way to go. Think about your goal to be published and how bad you want it! No-one's going to write your stories but YOU. This doesn't work for me, but perhaps a word count goal per day or per week? Even if you have to revise all of it, it might start the process going again. Good luck!!
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