Eeep! You caught me.
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I confess.
I admit it
I am NOT a multi tasker.
It dazes and confuses me. There, I said it and I feel better.
My best effort at MT’ing is listening to a book while I do
house or yard work. Oh! I can’t drive and listen. I get lost in the story and
next thing I know I’m in the middle of a field and have no idea where I am. I can’t write and be on facebook or twitter. No
sir. My agent says don’t do it if it isn’t fun. Eh…That’s the problem, it is
fun. I get so caught up in what other people do, I do nothing. I can’t cook
and write. Well I can but, the smoke detectors go off. Grrr. I
can do laundry. At least the wash part gets done. Then I frequently have to run
it through again because three days later the clothes still haven’t been put in
the dryer and are a tad sour smelling.
Tried writing and watching the football playoff games with
no sound this past weekend. Had to stop. Found three totally inappropriate
football references in a scene. I want to read all the blogs I see posted. Heavy
sigh. Just not possible.
What confounds me is the people who are on every social
media group known to man and every email loop posting constantly about their
daily routine. They work outside the home, manage a house and family and still
they put out five books a year. Really?
How do they do that? Add to all of it
promo and reports of soaring sales and I am totally overwhelmed by what they
are doing to the point I’d decided to admit my short coming, stick my fingers
in my ears and sing lalalalalal shutting it all out.
But wait… It seems if you don’t do all these things you
can’t be successful. I LOVE writing. But if I spend too much time with this
other crap it drains my creativity and desire to write. Am I doomed and a disgrace
to my gender? I’m making an effort to daily
include social media- with a time limit. Also spend time on learning my craft and
or researching. Spend more time engaging in life. Reading. Writing.
Take pity on a slow, easily distracted writer who can’t
multi task and share how you do it? (I mean multi task.)
6 comments:
I give up sleep. Or free time. Not willingly. But to get everything done, unfortunately, something has to give. And then I get so tired (like this week!) and know it's time to give up multi-tasking for a few days. :) So, for the next week, I plan to focus on getting one writing task and one household task done each day. My brain needs a break. Hmmm... think I'll add "nap once a day" to that list. :)
Good for you Anne Marie. A nap sound glorious.
Sorry, Rita, I'm no help. I can barely keep up with my housework, let alone social media. Promote? What the heck is that? If I can only do one thing at at time and do it well, it will be writing. No apologies here.
Marcelle I only wish all I had to do was write. Perhaps clones are the answer.
For me it all depends where I am in a manuscript. If I'm brainstorming and plotting I give myself a bit more internet freedom. If I'm writing a new manuscript/editing I give myself 15 minute breaks where I make tea, check email & FB and go to the loo. Then back to it. I find it hard to write and do 'other' things. And my need for solitude to write has increased. Ear plugs work for when everyone else is home though!!
Yes solitude! If only.
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