I’m sure of it. For years I’ve been telling my friends (Yo! Tracy & CJ) that I think and write better when I’m drinking coffee. I also desperately need alone time to charge my personal energy levels which directly affect my creativity.
Guess what I haven’t had for the past week? And which week am I floundering like mad?
This weekend, I spent my usual atcafeworkingonmyWIP time visiting with my mother. Which is good. Yanno. Free food, mothers day, chocolate coffee malt (seriously, try it). It’s good. What it isn’t, is alone time. What it is, is toosickfromcoffeechocolatemalttoworkonWIP.
Sunday, I didn’t leave the house at all. Literally. Not even to take out garbage. Hubby only left to take out garbage.
Now, I love him dearly. I’m glad I live with him. I’m glad we work together. I’m glad he does all the driving when we’re together. What I’m not glad about, is that that means I’m not alone EVER. Unless I make the effort to leave for a few hours, or he goes to his mother’s, brother’s, or our friend Rafy’s. That’s it. He pouts and complains when I send him to the drugstore without me.
And this weekend is our anniversary.
So, I can fix the coffee issue. No problem. But it looks like another week or so till I get some time to myself. I’m considering investing in those Bose headphones that block out all sound, and then locking the door.
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I too am unable to access stat counter. If you google them you’ll see they’re having some serious issues. This isn’t the first time this has happened.
Of all my addictions, coffee was the toughest to beat.
I too am having one of those weeks where the writing time has been cut into – home repair hassles, among other things – not in a good mood either because of it.
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That explains why I see hits on one site say that the visitor came from a different site, but stat counter shows no visits on the original site. Thanks for the info!
Mmmmm… Coffee good. Sorry to hear about your progress though.
I think my bad mood is why my writing is stalled, rather than the other way around. But, it’s a vicious circle, isn’t it?
I personally believe Red Bull should be provided to all writers. It is a Godsend!
-L.
OH MY GOD I TOTALLY FEEL YOUR PAIN!!! The boyfriend! works from home too and now I’M home all the time what with being unemployed and all and it. Is. Killing. Me.
Seriously, if you have any tips or trade secrets, Please share!!!!!!
Lisa- Yum, Red Bull and vodka. Not that I can have vodka any more *silently cursing meds*. Yanno… I’ve only had it in England, and I’ve never had Red Bull without the vodka.
Colleen- If I had had a drink at the moment that I read your comment, it would have been a total spewage moment.
The best that I’ve been able to manage is telling him that I’m “brain storming”. For some reason “brain storming” tells him that I’m working, where as “writing” does not. No, I don’t understand it either.
Still, it’s getting to the point where I’m going absolutely insane from lack of solitude. Sometimes I can kick him out for a few hours, and sometimes I have to go to the cafe for a few hours. If I leave, I very pointedly tell him that it’s so I can concentrate in relative quiet. So far, it’s kept him from calling me while I’m out, but then he’s like a puppy following me around for an hour or so after I get home.
Ok, I’m sorry. I’m trying to be helpful, but I seriously can’t stop laughing. I’ve got tears…
Ah, maybe we can get your BF and my DH together to play video games? Get them both out of our hair?
Yeah, the good thing for me is that I can pick up my laptop and take it somewhere else…he can’t exactly pick up his drawing table! He’s actually going to be in Philly for a conference in a week or so. Is it bad that I cannot wait for the alone time?
Oh, and we have a Wii if your DH ever wants to come to NY for some game-age!
Colleen- I love my laptop. I won’t take it with me to cafes though, since I can’t stay off the internet. So I’m doing my first draft on good old notebook paper. Hubby uses the desktop, and that’s not easy to move around either!
And it is absolutely not bad to be excited about alone time. I think most writers need it. I felt really guilty about kicking DH out of the house for a long time until he told me that I was being an idiot for feeling guilty about it.
It’s all good.
Hmmm. Hubby doesn’t like Wii… Can I come over instead?
(Hubby and I are a little too nostalgic. He pulled his old Atari 2600 and his old Sega Genesis out of storage, and now that’s all we play, aside from him playing his XBox hockey game)