*yawn*
August 17, 2010
I’ll be straight with you, I’m having one of those incredibly un-motivated days for some reason, so I imagine this entry will be short and meh. (Taken from “101 lines to make people click away from your blog”)
Does everyone else get this the same way I do? That feeling like you want to do something, but you’re having trouble even putting together a reasonable line of thought and all your body is telling you is that the couch is your friend and daytime TV isn’t that bad. It’s a horrible feeling, but what’s more horrible is the day after when you think of everything you should have done yesterday…
I think that getting some energy back should be near the top of my to-do list. Going back to the gym would be a good idea – I think I wrote a ton more in the days when I went to the gym – it just seems to give you more energy. My friend Fiona has recently taken up parkour, which sounds good. I’ll look into it once my stamina levels have risen above that of an overweight sloth.
I think I need to prioritise some projects I want to write. There are a bunch of comic ones that I would love to do, but I don’t feel like it’d get me anywhere into professional writing in the near future. Maybe I should be doing some articles for websites or submitting like crazy to the BBC? More thought needed.
Anyway, I hope everyone else has had a more productive day than I have thus far. In fairness, it’s only 13:55, I could get a burst of energy any minute now and be super-productive!
Aaaaany minute now.
It happened to me kinda often, but now I’m trying to do my best to improve myself.
It’s difficult, but I’m sure I’ll manage to do something vaguely productive…
These days are sometimes necessary…..it’s when everyday is like this that it becomes a problem! Give yourself a break and enjoy the laziness rather than beating yourself up and overthinking it.
But if I didnt overthink it I’d need to change the name of the blog!
Don’t you know someone who edits a comic website…? I think it’s worth remembering that a lot of people who are now professional writers got their start in Doctor Who fanzines. Paul Cornell being one.
One of the things I thought of doing, which I haven’t got round to yet, is interviewing people…If you want to break into freelance writing, developing that sort of skill could be useful.
It might be worth having a word with the local press as well. You never know, they might want film or TV reviews, and it’d start to get you a portfolio of published work…
Doing something for the comics magazine might be a good idea, definitely. I keep thinking of making myself more of a presence of the bendis forums, but it’s like screaming into a hurricane on there…
Gosh, we all have days like that. I used to long for days without having to go to work. Now I don’t have to go and I feel like I waste so many hours. When I was working I felt productive. At least you had the stamina to write about it – THAT WAS PRODUCTIVE! Enjoyed it – KUDOS!
“It’s a horrible feeling, but what’s more horrible is the day after when you think of everything you should have done yesterday…”
I feel this too… everyday in fact,
but one day this orb you call a planet shall be mine!
bwahhahahahahaha!
Pfft, you’ll have to fight me for it!
peon!
Sounds like the story of my summer holidays. Only seems like the start of the month that I’ve done anything of note with them. Before then the World Cup and the Tour de France were enough to capture whole days.
Problem is, now I’m too tired to contemplate writing anything. I’m with you on the “need to get back to the gym” bus, the first hurdle is the hardest.