It’s been one of those busy crazy semesters. You know the type. It starts out crazy way back in January and at the end of week one you say it will be less busy next week, but it just seems to keep going without leveling out. Then eventually it gets to the point where you decide you must quit something to make room for everything else, but even though you do drop one project or work task another one or three pop up.
I’ve gotten to that place at work and at home. At work we decided, for many reasons, we would not going to be able to participate in Library week so that we can perform better in all the other activities going on in the next couple weeks - like World Book Night, poetry month, Book Madness, helping with paper competitions (in my boss’ case), Script Frenzy… It’s crazy but I do enjoy the hub bub.
On the home front, I’ve been trying to decide whether or not I should drop Script Frenzy and just work on my story that I’ve been trying to finish for ages. On the one hand, Script Frenzy is an event I’m spearheading at work, and I feel like I should participate so that our other participants don’t feel abandoned. On the other hand, I’ve put my faery story aside so many times for other projects like grad school and Nanowrimo that I feel like I am just making it worse by pushing it aside again. So I think it has come to the point where I really do need to finish something.
My boss suggested we become Script Frenzy rebels and work on whatever we want. I think the only thing we need to do now is decide how we will count our progress. Pages, words? I’ve been thinking about starting a new program for the summer along these lines. Perhaps Rough Draft Mania.
And now for some inspirations from one of my favorites: Neil Gaiman on writing.
Gaiman really nails it. If you want to be a writer you have to treat writing like your job, even if you aren't being paid for it. You have to set yourself deadlines and goals and you have to work hard to meet them or your work will simply languish.
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