Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Tue, Feb 23 2016
Hurry up now, create later.
Some days I cook two or three dishes at once or make dinner while laundry is going. I like to call it multi-tasking, though some experts tell us that there is no real multi-tasking and that we fool ourselves into thinking we can concentrate on several things at once. Whatever you call this habit, it helps me to cope with being a writer who doesn't pay other professionals to clean the house or mow the lawn while I write. Many of us who work from home have to contend with doing it all, or doing most of it all.
The thing that works best for me is to work on several other tasks during the same period of time, whether that's called multi-tasking or switching tasks. This leaves me with larger blocks of time that allow me to focus completely on creativity. Walking away from stirring the soup in order to fold clothes creates less of a disturbance in my universe than does walking away from the creative core of writing to fold clothes. I need that uninterrupted flow of time to let creativity become productivity. (Your mileage may vary.)
posted at: 12:27 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
Some days I cook two or three dishes at once or make dinner while laundry is going. I like to call it multi-tasking, though some experts tell us that there is no real multi-tasking and that we fool ourselves into thinking we can concentrate on several things at once. Whatever you call this habit, it helps me to cope with being a writer who doesn't pay other professionals to clean the house or mow the lawn while I write. Many of us who work from home have to contend with doing it all, or doing most of it all.
The thing that works best for me is to work on several other tasks during the same period of time, whether that's called multi-tasking or switching tasks. This leaves me with larger blocks of time that allow me to focus completely on creativity. Walking away from stirring the soup in order to fold clothes creates less of a disturbance in my universe than does walking away from the creative core of writing to fold clothes. I need that uninterrupted flow of time to let creativity become productivity. (Your mileage may vary.)
posted at: 12:27 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry