orielgrigori

Ever felt like you’re way to nice with people and that it is eating your life?

Well I feel like that most of the time. But from now on I will change it. To be nice with people is ok, I mean, I can be nice with people and still enjoy my life. But when being nice take it all it’s way too much.

I want to decide for myself when and how I want to be nice with people. If what is asked from me would make me feel all bad and/or keep me from doing what I really want to do I want to be able to say no and keep with it.

Tell me what you think!

Hi,

I am someone who love to write, who crave it, still life being very busy it is hard to push other stuff around and get to sit down (before a screen or just a notebook) to write and add to the stories I love.

In an effort to find time to write I have try many things, setting schedule, getting up earlier, staying up later… But as most people can tell, life is quick to get in the way of yet an other good habit.

Taking my goal to write more and finally make writing more then just a “once in a while” hobby, I have look at what I was ok to give up or pay to get what I wanted. I found out that I was making a good salary and that as everyone, yes, I would like to make more money but that that money didn’t had that much flavour when I was in front of the fact that my writing was suffering from it. So when my compagnie (in this economy of incertitude and blah blah blah) decided to propose their employer with the possibility for a reduced schedule I jumped in and asked to be at 4days a week (which, in the IT industry is quite a nice opportunity :) ). Yes, I will earn a little less money, but I think it is worth it.

To be sure that this day doesn’t go to waste I have take some precautions:
- It’s Monday, so the office won’t call me cause A) not much happens on Monday B) what happens on Monday can wait to Tuesday anyway
- Everyone with who I live work on that day
- Everyone that do not work on that day and might call or offer activities have been advised that this day is going to be my writing day

What’s left to do? Well I want to plan myself a place to work, a desk a chair or at least some kind of installation that I will use for my writing and give me the feeling that I have “my own place”. And if I could install it outside when it’s all sunny it could even be better.

My new life, which I call “My part time writer, almost full time IT professional life” is going to start on Monday. Wish me luck.

Ryphna

And I found out that if I don’t let myself do it once a while I get very depressed.

I think that the journey is more important then the destination. You can write a book and finish the book and publish it…. But if when you did it you just stop and don’t even touch a pencil/keyboard/pen/whatevertoolyouliketouse again then you stop to be a writer. You WERE a writer.

It’s like everything else, if you stop doing it, you stop evolving in it.

Good luck all