I’ve been pondering one of the reasons it’s been so hard for me to write lately and I think part of the answer lies in the fact that I started trying to write on my laptop downstairs so I didn’t feel as isolated from my family.
Unfortunately, I think I’m the kind of person who really works best with a sort of “work” environment that is separate from my “living” environment. Hopefully that makes sense.
I’ve been able to work from home very successfully but when I really look at how I managed that, I really did treat it like going to work. I got up, fed the starving-yet-overweight felines, took M to daycare and then locked myself in the office with a soda and some snacks and sat down to work. I would often lose myself so much that I would only become aware of it when I either really needed a drink or really needed to pee.
Since I work a full time day job, I can’t currently do this during the day for my writing. So I’m spending the next few weeks trying to set a pattern for myself. At 10pm I am going up to my office and “going to the writing job” until midnight. I cleared off my desk so I had some space (the top of the file cabinets is next) and I have a lovely bottle of aromatherapy hand lotion I’m putting on to set a scent trigger for myself.
Last night I ran out of things to drink so tonight I made myself a pot of tea and brought it, a beautiful tea cup I bought it Beijing and my sugar to my office with me.
While I don’t intend to limit myself to only writing from 10-12 or only in my office, I have to think that some time and an established pattern has to be better than the prior lack of anything, especially writing output.
Does anyone else do certain things or have little rituals they do to perpare them to write?
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