I feel like years and years of hard work has allowed me the privilege to take this time for my own work, say no to projects or things I don’t really want to do, and focus on getting excited and making things.
So the plan has been to take August off (except for @Midnight on the 19th and two installments of Critical Role, both things I want to do because they’re fun) to just write and be creative.
I thought I’d have some progress toward finishing one of these writing projects by now (since it’s Thursday, after all), but I’ve spent this week recovering emotionally and physically from GenCon (more on that later when I can properly organize all those thoughts).
For the longest time, I’ve felt guilty if I take time to do things like watch movies or read a stack of comics, and even though I remind myself that part of my job is to be familiar with and inspired by the things I want to create, the loudest and most insistent part of my brain does a lot of “umactually…” at me a lot of the time.
But here I am, watching almost two movies a night, reading on average a book a week, playing and learning lots of games, and generally just doing my best to feed my creative side, so it’s ready to go when I ask it to work with me to turn ideas into stories.
This feels strange, but also good.
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That’s what most of us call “a vacation”, and it’s a normal and completely necessary thing. Treat yourself.
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Grappling with the same balance writing and energizing my brain in other ways. Very glad to hear that you’re taking the time to relax – with the amazing work that you do, you deserve it, dude!
For some happy brain times, I came up with this idea to hang out and watch movies with another couple… called nostalgia movie night. You have to pick a movie that you watched a TON as a kid and holds a special place in your heart, and ideally, the others haven’t seen it. This past Friday we watched Murder by Death (her pick) and then The Legend of Billie Jean (my pick). It was a great time and way more fun than I thought it would be. Next round, the husband gets to pick and so does her partner. Moaoahahhhaa. So fun to throw some throwback movies into the mix. I look forward to our next gathering.
Also, watched the tabletop episode of qwirkle to figure out how to play it because the written rules made my brain hurt. So, thanks for that!
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2xf9rd is this legit also?
thank you for sharing this, i have been struggling.. i have a very stressful job and balancing life and home takes its toll. my self hate has been so intense lately bc all i wanted to do is carve out some time for me but while doing this all i can see and feel is all the stuff i should be doing and how useless i felt. it is like we don’t deserve to have time for us. Enjoy it as much as you can — you do deserve and are worth it. be well.
Oh, I almost forgot to tell you! I had a dream about a month ago where I was at a library and I was picking up a copy of your third book in a series. The series was called E10d, but on your blog you always wrote out the 10 (so E-ten-d) so I thought it was weird that the cover used numerals. Anyhoo, the series jumps around in time, but uses the same characters (think “Quantum Leap”-ish) and this new book was going into the past after the first two were future. So, now you know what to write about, and I promise if you do, I will buy the books at my local independent book store and not just get them for free. So there.