Postaday 2011: My Muses – Time and Company
If I am going to be creative I need to clear the decks. I need to have a tidy house with clean lines and surfaces. The ideas are never the problem – it’s the practicalities.
First of all I allocate tasks to time-slots and stick to them. If I don’t timetable things in, they don’t happen. They end up on the moribund to-do list of guilt. Which is lengthy.
For a big project I always appoint a right-hand-woman. This is a friend who will come and talk to me as I work, think and plan. Having someone come round helps me to keep the time-slot and the task more clearly defined. I prefer to work with company.
When I used to paint, I went to a class – just to ensure that I gave myself that time. I really enjoyed it – but going out to too many things like this kind of clashed with motherhood.
When I once tried the NaNoWriMo – I met the quota on the first night – then the builders knocked through the back of the house so we moved out for six weeks and I was so harassed that was as far as that novel got.
For music, I need to be elsewhere to rehearse with others. As I’ve said before – I don’t listen to music – but I like to play. If I have the time to play and friends to play with I love it.
Blogging is a funny one though – it is a solitary activity on one level – but with a real sense of audience and community on another. There is the sense the kind of company I value.
I really enjoy reading what people have to say and love the fact that there are people out there who like ideas and challenges and words – as much as I do.
I’m happy to be your audience, company and muse. Keep it up!
Cheers!
Likewise.
Wow. I love the way people are different! How many are His works! In wisdom, He has made us all.
“I really enjoy reading what people have to say and love the fact that there are people out there who like ideas and challenges and words – as much as I do.”
You said is so perfectly. I love clean lines, and to organize and clean. Your posts are perfect your page is set wonderfully and I love to read what you write.