Musing Mondays, a weekly blog meme hosted by Should be Reading, asks you to muse about one of the following each week…
- Describe one of your reading habits.
- Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).
- What book are you currently desperate to get your hands on? Tell us about it!
- Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying it.
- Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us!
- Instead of the above questions, maybe you just want to ramble on about something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!
Today we’re going to go with the final point – rambling on about something else pertaining to books.
I have three works in progress, each WIP sitting between 10k and 20k word count. Yet it never fails, when I start working on one of them – and make some progress – later that day/night/few days later, the muse for one of the other WIPS will pipe up and won’t shut up till I write the scene she’s come up with. Sometimes it isn’t even for the works in progress, but I write it out anyway, just to get it down and out of my head so I can, hopefully, get back to what I was working on previously.
My muse also has a horrible tendency to want to write after I’ve crawled into bed and start dozing off. Just then, she’ll have a wonderful insight, which I hope to remember when I wake up in the morning – and often I don’t. When I do remember, it’s a good one and it gets written down as soon as I have time to sit down with one of my writing devices and write it out – or even note it out to write in detail later.
It also doesn’t help that lately I’ve been procrastinating on sitting down and writing – mainly because I have other things to do that I have also procrastinated getting done.
And if I were talk about the number of books I recently started reading and haven’t finished…that would be a whole nother chapter on procrastination.
One of my goals for this year, besides having a book written and submitted to a publisher, is to find a happy medium between the amount of words I write for my day job and what I write for blogs/novels outside of work. One I find the medium, I think I’ll be able to write on both without brain overload. The other goal is to set myself hard deadlines with rewards. I haven’t figured out quite what those rewards will be yet, but I find I work a lot better under hard deadlines than I do without them.
What are some ways you motivate yourself to write when life is just getting in your way?
