This month's topic is: What is your favorite time and place to read? How about writing time? Do you have to make time?
Do you have a ritual or is your plan helter-skelter? I had a quilting teacher who followed the Swiss-cheese method to completing tasks: Make a hole here, and sometime later a hole there; keep repeating this until the whole thing is complete. What's your method?
Well,I guess I'll be honest. My retired life is "helter-skelter" when it come to anything. When I worked, I lived on a schedule and was organized. In fact, I wrote my debut novel during my lunch hours and breaks. As a retired person, I stay up late, sleep in, and don't have a scheduled time for anything. My reading and writing time has suffered because I spend far too much time on social media because I miss my friends, and for whatever reason, my characters seem to sense my disorganization and don't speak to me as often as they often used too.
Right now, I have visitors through the winter, and I'm trying to change my life style by adding exercise and altering my diet. I guess I've made my health a priority, and that's a good thing, but I often think I need to find another job so I can get myself organized again.
Okay, now I've shared my answer...check out the following participants and see what they've said:
A.J. Maguire http://ajmaguire.wordpress.com/
Geeta Kakade http://geetakakade.blogspot.com/
Margaret Fieland http://www.margaretfieland.com/blog1/
Skye Taylor http://www.skye-writer.com/
Marci Baun http://www.marcibaun.com/
Fiona McGier http://www.fionamcgier.com/
Connie Vines http://connievines.blogspot.com/
Beverley Bateman http://beverleybateman.blogspot.ca/
Rita Karnopp http://www.mizging@blogspot.com
Rachael Kosnski http://the-doodling-booktease.tumblr.com/
Helena Fairfax http://helenafairfax.com/
Heidi M. Thomas http://heidiwriter.wordpress.com/
Ginger Simpson http://www.cowboykisses.blogspot.com/
Rhobin Courtright http://www.rhobinleecourtright.com/
5 comments:
Is it interesting how our lives change? Hated being tied to an office everyday but it made me more organized. Love having the freedom to do whatever I want but somehow life gets in the way. Thanks for the post, Ginger.
Putting your health first is always a good idea. And I agree, it's harder to be organized when we're not working.
I agree health is the most important aspect for you at this moment. However, I see your books publishing frequently and your social media presence is still very strong. Ginger, you my dear, are a master juggler!
Your lifestyle and writing reading times sound like mine. I was so organized when I worked and now that I don't have to dance to someone else's piping, I love the freedom that allows. I read late, read when I want to and any moment that nothing else is going on. And I write when my characters talk to me. Fortunately they are more organized than I am and they talk to me a lot.
I'm looking forward to someday "only" having 1 job, instead of the 3 I work now. Even just 1 full-time job would be better, instead of having to spread myself so thin every day.
I'm too far from retirement to even dream of that. But I can only hope that my characters will keep talking to me, telling me their stories.
As for social media, I refer to FB as "the time-sucking vortex that is Facebook."
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