 fieldofdaisies
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Hi,
I am using this thread for me and my Mom/TAW Buddy as an accountability for writing/a weekly check-in. We have both agreed to write a minimum of 3 times a week and a minimum of 1 hour each time. This is where we will report our successes, our challenges and our ‘i did it moments’. … don’t mind us.  and by all means set a goal for yourself and check in each week and share!
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 smilesarefree
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Thanks for the opener, fieldofdaisies. I can see the picture now.
To my companion, PROCRASTINATE, I am serving you notice…when you come up on my call display, I will ignore you. (Do not leave a message.)
In fact, you are the subject of my first writing hour. (I have signed the writer’s contract).
“How can you write about me for an HOUR?” you ask.
OH :)…when you have been around me for so long, there is a lot I can write about you.
Just watch me!
HAPPY DAY!
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smilesarefree
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I just tapped my EASY button from Staples. 70 minutes and 5 pages later, I’ve done my first writing, as mentioned in previous post. Of all the lovely places in our house and yard that I could have sat to write, I chose my highly cluttered office (nice desk underneath it all). As I wrote my DEAR PROCRASTINATE letter, I glanced around at all the things that I have allowed P. to stop me from doing. The very act of beginning my writing…in there…just jumpstarted me into ‘get it done” mode.
Total euphoria!!!
HAPPY DAY!:)
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fieldofdaisies
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WOOT!!!! … now MY turn!!! the screenplay awaits edits and tweaks!! XO
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fieldofdaisies
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Ok – so JUST finished my 1st time of 3 for this week … well I’m still working now even (1+hour) – but wanted to make sure I ‘logged’ in my efforts!
I’m thankful I had the courage to do it tonight – planned to do it yesterday but the day got away from me …. or I let my Censor take it away. I hadn’t planned tonight but my inner guide let out a pretty big yelp… and I listened!
Happy for tonight and my accomplishments of allowing my inner guide lead me to the keyboard and type!
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smilesarefree
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So…”slipped” by a day for the week’s check-in. That’s kind of the way it goes sometimes. Once I get started writing it becomes very easy to continue.
My hour/minimum 3 pages commitment usually runs longer. Not a bad thing.
I have yet to establish a specific time to do it…and WHY?…If I can discipline myself to be at my hot yoga class on time every morning 5 days a week, surely I can schedule 3 writing times.
Yes, I can, and just DID! thank you TAW!
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fieldofdaisies
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no Censors allowed here!!!  i.e. ‘slipped’… says who?? If you need to ‘set’ a day that’s cool – if you want to write 3 times – 3 days in a row that’s cool too! no real schedule in this, unless you and your Artist wants that.
I think the more we try to ‘tie ourselves down’ the more we feel tied down… yes, there is structure and building blocks in routine – but we’ve both made an agreement, signed a contract – so we will do it. We are Artists and I think the 3/week a charm is a ‘starter’, eventually, as you said, once you get started… so maybe eventually it will just turn into a stream of writing every day. (?) I think whatever works for each of us WILL work.
When I am home I try to ask my Artist every moment what it wants to do – and I was just able to now also finish another hour of writing. Getting the edits done on screenplay #1.
Go gently.
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fieldofdaisies
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this one was a tough one. jumped from one writing job to another – couldn’t focus – was NOT feeling it – no ideas were coming. kept at it and actually got, what I think might be decent work…but i won’t judge it – just let it be put on the page and live. i think it actually might have helped when i started on the first work – and felt stuck – to go to the other – a ‘break’ of thoughts and focus on the one piece was achieved and was able to go back to initial piece and hash out some decent thoughts.
tired.
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smilesarefree
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I have decided to change my initial writing “week” from Wed. to Wed. to the actual calendar week…..seems to have worked for many people for many hundreds of years.
Why mess with a good thing?!
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smilesarefree
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Thanks for the “reminder”!
My latest writing time overflowed. Once I set my subject it just poured out.
My previous times were individual pieces, not connected to each other.
This latest one is a subject that will continue to grow: “Memories of My Dad”…came to me on Father’s Day (He passed 3 days before Father’s Day eight years ago, so has been very fresh in my mind right now.)….something I will be happy to share with my children.
I still intend to produce more individual pieces, just for variety.
I LOVE this! Thank you J.C.! Thank you fieldofdaisies!
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fieldofdaisies
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well – just finished 1 of 3 this morning. I wasn’t having much productivity in the night time, when I usually have been writing so I decided last night to switch it up – set my alarm earlier than usual and planned to do my writing then! very alert and percolated ideas got on the page!
…who knew I was a morning person…well for today at least.
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fieldofdaisies
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getting through more edits and ideas – 1/3 of the way through…new thoughts = new challenges and directions with this one – kinda changing all of it around… :s oh well – see what happens!!
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fieldofdaisies
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finished another session – this time wasn’t script focused but for my fall project focused. Proposal plan alive and in the works! …have been avoiding it/not feeling the energy to transfer from paper to computer the last couple of days (why, I’m not sure???) but oh well – glad I got a start on it and will allow a pat on the back from self to Artist!
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smilesarefree
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Good job, fieldofdaisies! Sometimes the START button is hard to find. For me, once it appears, the pen just moves. My last two sessions – my pen can barely keep up with my brain. One of these days I will ‘check out’ from the rest of the world and just write. Looking forward to my next session. One must stop for sleep sometimes.
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fieldofdaisies
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so the week has been a bust for writing, signed Censor.
Well – I am sitting here – realizing I have not written but also looked back on my week and am having problems for a first time in what I think is a while, at balance. With the new job – doing it during the days as every night this week had a rehearsal and I am thinking – well I COULD have, like last week gotten up an hour earlier and used that time to write. But at the same time have been feeling exhausted and realizing I have not had a complete day off from work/and/or rehearsals since June 7th – and I think it is finally catching up with me.
I went for my Artist Date – the first one in a while – yesterday – to a greenhouse and then a park, where I found a spot on the grass – oh yeah, treated myself to a cup of ice cream to take along too. As I sat on the grass I realized that I hadn’t been ‘nurtured’ and just being IN nature – on the grass and surrounded by trees – that is what I needed – even felt a release emotionally – it felt like sadness (?). I AM being fulfilled by my art, whether it be through my music or writing at different times and occasions throughout the last month – … but balance…
So – I still worked 2 hours today and feel guilt for not doing more … and still have a rehearsal tonight – and the same schedule for next week. I am SOOO grateful for it – because it is doing what I LOVE – but at the same time, feel guilty that I can not hold up every end of every bargain… this one included.
I also know come tomorrow – or even this evening I will be fine.
…but why the guilt? When I am doing ‘nothing’ I am feeling restless, “you should do this, you should be doing that” …
why this all or nothing approach??
“treating myself like a precious object will make me stronger” … and so I go.
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smilesarefree 103 days ago.
