Some delightful birthday flowers from my great friend Kathy of Well Placed Words.Ah, glorious distractions of the summer! Glorious because they are so much fun. Some of mine include: birthday parties (many friends and relatives and myself), a niece's graduation, a different niece's visit, a convention, Fandemonium, where I taught a workshop on storyboarding, a film conference, my first, an upcoming workshop on writing manga and new fitness classes for mid-lifers to teach (my other day job, check out Delightfit for more).
Whew! All fun events/activities that I wanted to do and enjoyed doing. However, all distractions from the w.i.p. Distractions that sometimes assisted my current work, more about that in the next post--but also created a struggle to "stay in the work."
No time. No energy. The one thing I found helped, a bit, was to make certain I worked for 10-15 minutes a day, every day on my w.i.p. Not necessarily turning out pages, notes (even on scraps of paper if I was away from my laptop) worked as well.
Still difficult. So, dear readers, what do you do when awash with glorious distractions? How do you avoid getting possibly remote from a current and now uncurrent work? And what have your glorious distractions been this summer?
4 comments:
Hmm. My distractions have been many, but none so worse than the rain which puts a halt to my outdoor work (which means delays for the magazine articles). I can't avoid the rain or being so busy at this time of year, so I do little things instead to keep my creative juices flowing.
Yeah, you can't do a thing about the weather, rebecca--but you seem to have a practical solution--do the little things.
Gardens, garden shows, walks in the country, these are possibly the only distractions I welcome at all readily. Good post.
I would think that rather than being "distractions" those would be inspirations, Dave.
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