Social media and Morning Pages: my latest writing drains
Friday, November 18th, 2011 07:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chanaleh
So, so tired, you guys. So tired. And I haven't been posting to LJ because somehow, in the past 2 weeks, I magically became one of those 21st-century creations known as a full-time Social Media Professional. Though you may have noticed that I'm now on Twitter and, if I must incriminate myself, Foursquare. :-} But, thus I spend a lot more time making micro-posts and sharing links (on both my own behalf and my employer's), but a lot less actually putting words through the keyboard.
I must say that this is partly due to the fact that we get lunch at my workplace, and it comes on these wide cafeteria trays that (no joke) make it difficult to type while eating lunch!
And partly it's also that the writing class I've been taking (four sessions down, two to go) gave us the standing assignment of hand-writing "morning pages" in a journal every day, à la Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way. Which is good in that it gives me a place to get out emotional stuff I wouldn't feel comfortable putting out here (and believe me we have plenty of that going on right now), but it also eats up the 30-40 minutes each morning in which I might otherwise be writing something on LJ. -- Like right now, except that I went in early for a meeting yesterday, so I don't feel any compunction about being a little later today. :-)
In terms of actual class assignments to turn in, I'm trying to write a short-short story (weekly assignments are 500 words) about the guitar lesson![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gremionis gave me after we had dinner last week. He said I clearly need a guitar. Maybe. :-)
Shabbat dinner invite tonight, which I'm looking forward to! Hoping to have some chill time this weekend (it doesn't seem to happen much, even now), and to catch up on sleep (ditto).
I must say that this is partly due to the fact that we get lunch at my workplace, and it comes on these wide cafeteria trays that (no joke) make it difficult to type while eating lunch!
And partly it's also that the writing class I've been taking (four sessions down, two to go) gave us the standing assignment of hand-writing "morning pages" in a journal every day, à la Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way. Which is good in that it gives me a place to get out emotional stuff I wouldn't feel comfortable putting out here (and believe me we have plenty of that going on right now), but it also eats up the 30-40 minutes each morning in which I might otherwise be writing something on LJ. -- Like right now, except that I went in early for a meeting yesterday, so I don't feel any compunction about being a little later today. :-)
In terms of actual class assignments to turn in, I'm trying to write a short-short story (weekly assignments are 500 words) about the guitar lesson
gremionis gave me after we had dinner last week. He said I clearly need a guitar. Maybe. :-)Shabbat dinner invite tonight, which I'm looking forward to! Hoping to have some chill time this weekend (it doesn't seem to happen much, even now), and to catch up on sleep (ditto).