So Much to Write, So Little Time
Why is it that when you have deadlines, your muse wants to write something else? I had to tie her down so that I could finish writing my guest blog for Jens (I’ll put a link here when that appears in August) and so I can make progress on my actual work work (this summer has been unusually busy!!!).
I also have a couple of stories in need of revising and another that I wrote a good first scene for, but now my muse is whispering intensely of another story all together. Arg! I just hope that she doesn’t clam up out of spite when I finally get some of these other obligations out of the way so I can sit down and pound out this new idea. The other stories I can put on hold, because that’s my stuff. It’s the deadlines for other people that have to be met first!
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I absolutely organise myself around the fact that I know this will happen. Pre-deadline, I set myself up with different tasks, so that my work-avoidance ends up having a useful focus (You can not write, if you file. But you must file or else you must write)
My muse is a spoilt toddler.
Punishment… good idea.