When I feel overwhelmed by all I’m trying to do I find my mind
doesn’t quite function as it should. And I’m a little overwhelmed at the
moment. Partly because my day job has been exhausting over June and I’ve had
little creative energy left for anything outside of work.
When I get stressed I tend to start thinking at strange
tangents.
So the little creative energy I have had I have been using
to find something artistic to enrich my life. I’ve researched glass and ceramic
classes and considered getting the camera out again and focusing on
photography.
But it took some time to realise that I am already doing
something like this – my writing. And these ideas take from my writing time,
that researching classes robs my writing time.
In my search for some stress release I found I was
procrastinating, and in many ways only adding to my stress.
At least I am able to see this for what it really is.
So instead of taking up a new hobby I have taken some time
to refocus on why writing is important to me and what I want to write. Which it
turns out is not very different to what I have been thinking about and working
towards for some time. I just needed a bit of a kick.
I have looked over a variety of advice to beat
procrastination (again, and yes that is in a way another form of procrastination).
I have decided to try using a writing journal. This will be a notebook where I map
out the aim of my next writing session, then how well I thought that session
went and how close I came to meeting the session goals.
This may help cut down the email checking I do before I start
writing because I only have an hour of a morning before the getting ready for
school madness starts and a clear plan/aim/goal for that hour would help guide
me straight into writing.
Happy Scribbling
