Lots of time, no motivation

[Whispersecret]

I don't understand myself sometimes. I wish I could get more time to write, but sometimes when I do get a big chunk of time, I waste it. I end up coming here and schmoozing with KM on Messenger for a couple of hours.

Anyone else like that?

 

[KillerMuffin]

I get a big chunk of time and I either post here or whine about not writing to WS on MSN. She calls it schmoozing. But I whine.

 

[Ray Dario]

Well, I don't schmooze with KM But I do lament the time I've wasted.

Ray

 

[SexyChele]

No, I never get to schmooze with KM, either! Or whine or anything! But I do get side-tracked entirely too easily when I should be setting aside time for writing.

 

[ilovewriting]

I often find i am completely unmotivated when i have heaps of time but when i cant spare a second i want to write so badly it hurts and have a million good ideas screaming through my head like bullets with nothing to stop them.

 

[Axeltheswede]

time

There is no such thing as wasted time. While we're trading comments here, the ideas are fermenting. Our powerful subconscious minds are stewing through limitless plots of incredible fiction.

 

[KillerMuffin]

Completely off the subject here:

I lost the disk that held a couple of stories I wrote a while ago that were almost done.

I'd be heartbroke. Except they SUCKED.

 

[Ray Dario]

Completely off the subject here:

I lost the disk that held a couple of stories I wrote a while ago that were almost done.

I'd be heartbroke. Except they SUCKED.

In the words of our previous president, KM I feel your pain!

Same kinda thing happend to me a while back. You have my sympathy.

Ray

 

[Quasimodem]

I ... have a million good ideas screaming through my head like bullets with nothing to stop them.

WOW!

ilovewriting just described my plight!

 

[DVS]

I don't understand myself sometimes. I wish I could get more time to write, but sometimes when I do get a big chunk of time, I waste it. I end up coming here and schmoozing with KM ... for a couple of hours.

AHem. If I was to say the same thing would my dry sense of humor still not be understood?

 

[Whispersecret]

I worry that I won't live long enough to write everything I want to write. I, too, have too many ideas.

Not that I'm sharing, though. Cept with Muffie. We came up with a good idea today while we were SCHMOOZING. Ahem. We do not whine, else we would be setting a bad example for our kids.

 

[JUDO]

(*carrying in a plate*)

Have some cheese with that whine, WS & KM. Go for some of the water crackers, too. Yummy!

(*dashes out*)

Strawberries and grapes coming up!

 

[TrinaT]

I too sometime lose the motivation to write when I've got the whole day to spend writing (especially when the entire household is off doing their thing), but like others, I end-up spending a good portion of my time reading other posts and some stories. Although I must admit, oftentimes reading others stories puts me back into the motivated writing stage.

TrinaT

 

[Quint]

Last summer I attended a camp for various arts, such as choir, orchestra, painting, photography, acting, and dance. I went for poetry. I wrote every day and loved every second of it. I had such high self-esteem (and never really lost it...hence the ego complex now) and I felt like I was truly living in a worthwhile manner.

The camp lasted for two weeks. I left and have written about 10 pieces of poetry since. That's it. Though I KNOW damned well how great it feels to create, I've just never picked my lazy ass up and put it in the figurative writing chair.

I like to tell myself that I'm saving my inspiration for later, or I'm spreading out to cover new fields, which is why I edit all the time even when I'm not producing an original word. I don't find taking a hiatus to be a sin or even a flaw (since no money is riding on MY work). However, I do understand and sympathize with the frustration on this thread. Me too.

 

[TheEarl]

I often try and force a story. I don't like setting aside time to write as my stories just tend to flow, but when I have time i feel that I really ought to write something and end up forcing a story that ends up as something I'm ashamed of.

The Earl

 

[Quiet_Cool]

Generally speaking, I'm unmotivated. To do damn near anything. i need a good swift kick in the ass, and I mean by some ugly bitch so I don't enjoy it!
SOmetimes I wonder if I'm so much a writer as someone who likes to think he's one.
Oh, and JUDO, can you bring that plate over this way? Is this Swiss? The hot pepper cheese looks good.