Future Self

This Month’s Prompt –

December 4 question – Let’s play a game. Imagine. Role-play. How would you describe your future writer self, your life and what it looks and feels like if you were living the dream?
Or if you are already there, what does it look and feel like? Tell the rest of us. What would you change or improve?

 

The awesome co-hosts for the December 4 posting of the IWSG are

Tonja Drecker,
Beverly Stowe McClure,
Nicki Elson,
Fundy Blue, and
Tyrean Martinson!

Honestly – I think I’m sort of in the second category. I’m retired from the ‘job’ so now my time is my own and if I don’t spend it working on writing, it is on me.

I find I’m not as disciplined about the writing as when I had limited time in the day for myself. But…I also am not ‘burning the candle at both ends’ and therefore enjoying the time I do put in writing. I do want my books (on Amazon) (shameless plug) to sell and in the past week I had what to me were great sales (under a $100, but hey…books sold).

Current me…too easy to fall down the ‘let’s check the internet’ hole. I almost wish my computer were a stand-alone. (Any of you out there remember those days?) I say that because when you don’t have it, you don’t have that distraction and yes, I’m easily distracted some days. I find I really have to be more disciplined about the time element. Somehow, when you have ‘all the time in the world’ it is easy to waste it.

I may have to do the ‘kitchen timer’ thing, where you set a timer for ‘x’ amount of time and sit down to your computer and write for that amount of time, ignoring all other calls for your attentions (short of a house fire).

Perhaps this is growing into a New Year’s Resolution?

This post seems to be full of ‘comments in quotes’, but as the PBS news segment might say, “This is my brief, but spectacular take on December 4th’s “Insecure Writer’s Support Group” question.”