tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post3500127411950242202..comments2024-02-05T10:41:31.777-05:00Comments on I Saw Lightning Fall: Alexander and Connolly on Scheduling Time to WriteLoren Eatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12488412683340389286noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post-22238930767686232112011-08-23T09:22:58.454-04:002011-08-23T09:22:58.454-04:00Those sound like perfect writing times!Those sound like perfect writing times!Loren Eatonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12488412683340389286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post-31208929586541426572011-08-22T10:51:18.134-04:002011-08-22T10:51:18.134-04:00I had a quick scan at it but I'll have to read...I had a quick scan at it but I'll have to read it later. I don't have a smartphone and most of the time I forget to turn my mobile on when I'm out and I never take my laptop with me. I relish those times when I'm out and no one can get to me.<br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post-15797302696543435922011-08-22T10:39:31.881-04:002011-08-22T10:39:31.881-04:00You may find this article interesting, Jim. For so...You may find <a href="http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/sociss/release.cfm?ArticleID=2144" rel="nofollow">this article</a> interesting, Jim. For some people social media really is an addiction. I try to limit my exposure to this blog and a few others I enjoy, but even that can sweep me away if I'm not careful.<br /><br />I really like your emphasis on (what I'll call) tactical postponement. Most of the time we really don't have to do things RIGHT NOW. It seems a wise perspective.Loren Eatonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12488412683340389286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post-43059165304369122802011-08-20T05:46:52.494-04:002011-08-20T05:46:52.494-04:00I think it’s a little worrying that people would h...I think it’s a little worrying that people would have to set themselves goals like doing without Facebook for five minutes. That smacks of addiction and I don’t care if it’s drink, drugs, a lucky rabbit’s foot or a social network no one should abdicate control of themselves. The thing about time is that it is finite and as much as that’s stating the obvious I think we forget that and imagine we can stretch it to get stuff done. What are we so terrified we’re going to miss out on? I’m a member of a few groups on Facebook and I wonder how these writers have the time to write because they never seem to be not commenting. <br /><br />I don’t work well under pressure. I get incredibly stressed and it’s just not worth it. I hate deadlines and so I usually work weeks in advance. Seriously. I have book reviews written that I won’t be posting until October and enough articles to last me until Christmas all so I have time to do the job properly. The same goes for my novels. At the moment I’m focusing all my attention on promotion and so am spending far more time reading and commenting on blogs and interacting with people on Facebook than I care for (being the antisocial bugger that I am) but that’s all part of being a writer. It’s also good to rest and I think that’s something we tend to neglect as writers. If we’re not writing be think we’re blocked but we’re usually not. We’re just not ready to start.<br /><br />I think the most important thing I’d be thinking about if I were you is when I write best and rearrange the rest of the things you have to do around that time be that two in the morning or six in the evening. Like all of us you will have a list of things you have to do but as long as all those things are done in an acceptable time frame it doesn’t usually matter exactly when they’re done. Unlike when I was a kid I don’t have to stop what I’m doing to watch <i>Top of the Pops</i> - I can record whatever it is and watch it at a more convenient time when I’m fit for nothing else.<br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.com