It's now February, and the semester is officially in high gear. My project for tonight's class is pretty much done (I just realized that I forgot the book for tonight - doh!), and I have finished most of the reading for tomorrow night's class. After the first class, I knew this was going to be one of my tougher semesters, just based on the required readings for class.
Throw "life plans" into that mix, and it creates a whole lot of fun... My "fun" reading has slowed to a crawl (good thing I'm reading a short story collection... makes those sparse reading moments get a bigger payoff), and the writing has slowed (at the moment) more than the reading.
I am looking forward, though, to the "researched" writing project for the semester... and I am slow-brewing the idea, thinking about what angle I want to take in telling the story.
I am nervous, though, with all of the ideas that I have in various stages of slow-brewing, that I may be choking myself off. I've had a couple of other people that have mentioned that, recently, as well. MC may have finally won me over on a couple of points - namely a rearranging of how I have my desk set up.
My February work will focus on that rearrangement, and fleshing out the project list - setting myself up to focus on one - just one - non-academic project, in an effort to break through my own personal word count/page count ceiling. At the same time, I will be making notes for this year's Script Frenzy, where I am supposed to be one of the local moderators (Municipal Liasons). The writing itself won't be until April, but I can get a lot of background ideas put together (character sketches that have been bugging me, etc.).
It's boiling down to personal accountability, and time/priority management - juggling the professional and personal in a completely different way than I have had to before, and trying to figure out the ways that I work best...
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