What am I working on? Um…woof. Not much. Honestly, it’s been so tough this month so far. My brain is a static TV. Things seem to be falling through the cracks constantly. All I want to do is read and play video games (sure sign I’m hitting my max-out point). June is always like this, to be fair. It’s chaotic with birthdays and end of school and major shifting of daily schedules. I KNOW this. I should PLAN for it. Did I, though? No, no I did not. I’m pleased that I did handwrite the beginning to the short story version of a subplot for the WIP, so THAT felt good. I really need to get into practicing writing daily, because there are so many skills I need to work on, that even if I’m not chipping away at the bulk of the WIP, I can still be sharpening skills. Freewriting could be my friend during these chaotic times. And I’m enjoying the flash fiction Friday stories a lot–it forces me to really think through how stories work and practice that. So I’ll keep up with that, too.
What’s inspiring me? I’ve fallen back into the pit of Sims4, because sometimes, you just need to watch someone ELSE’S life go off the rails with no personal consequences. I also just finished I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi, the book the Netflix show is based on, and it was solid. I’ll definitely be applying some of the logical and mundane guidelines to our own finances moving forward. I’ve also started getting OBSESSED with commonplace notebooks. GOSH. Isn’t this pretty? And THIS? I love the idea of transporting notes from the margins into a notebook I can actually flip through. WHERE I’d do this (whether in my bulletjournal because it’s always there, or in my writing notebook to capture some of the thinking regarding books) I’m not sure. Is there a desire to get a shiny NEW notebook for this? OF COURSE. But I’m trying to resist that urge, because honestly, if I have yet another notebook to keep up-to-date, I just won’t. So thoughts to be had. I’ll probably go towards the writing notebook, simply because I can and it’s ready to go now. In the future, who knows? But capturing my creativity and thoughts where I’m most likely to need them for story writing seems to make sense to me.
What challenges are facing me this week? This is an easy one to answer, because it seems like EVERYTHING. The Things are sick, which precludes babysitting today, in addition to it being the last week of school (read: craaaazypants week), plus a doggo consultation later in the week. The house is cluttered. The laundry monster is claiming the living room as its den and does NOT want to move out. We have entirely too much STUFF laying around. New routines will need to be established as summer sets in. Oh, and we’re undergoing major construction! So my brain is frazzled at that “I’m no longer functioning with all these distractions” phase, and I need to find a way to get back to regular work. I’m thinking 100 words a day may be my new method for creeping forward on the WIP, just so I have to open the document. It may be ONLY 100 a day, but that may just have to do for now.
ACTION ITEMS:
- 100 words/day on WIP or stories associated
- Daily writing practice/freewrite – 1 page
- 1 Flash Story for Friday