Being as self-aware as you are is going to be a great tool. You know you are coming into your hardest season, so you can take steps to make it better. Maybe insert something - some activity - that you reserve for the gray months of Autumn, that you will look forward to each year.
As to your schedule (which I love, by the way) it's pretty tight. I would find it hard to stay that disciplined, and then things have a way of popping up in places and times for which we did not schedule them. Maybe you need to add a floating block of time for surprises or for curling up in bed on a gray day and letting yourself feel a little lazy and unhappy for a bit, or for catch-up on a good week.
Your stuckness with writing reminded me of something I read about scheduling writing each day. That as long as you sit there, in front of your computer or paper during that allotted time, it counts. Eventually sitting there, doing nothing else, will get so boring that you'll write because it's something to do. I know that's not what you're seeking in terms of the novel, but it might be something to push you through a stuck time.
Very wordy of me. Sorry. Also, if I followed even a tiny bit of my own advice I'd be much better off. :)
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Date: 2006-09-20 01:29 pm (UTC)As to your schedule (which I love, by the way) it's pretty tight. I would find it hard to stay that disciplined, and then things have a way of popping up in places and times for which we did not schedule them. Maybe you need to add a floating block of time for surprises or for curling up in bed on a gray day and letting yourself feel a little lazy and unhappy for a bit, or for catch-up on a good week.
Your stuckness with writing reminded me of something I read about scheduling writing each day. That as long as you sit there, in front of your computer or paper during that allotted time, it counts. Eventually sitting there, doing nothing else, will get so boring that you'll write because it's something to do. I know that's not what you're seeking in terms of the novel, but it might be something to push you through a stuck time.
Very wordy of me. Sorry. Also, if I followed even a tiny bit of my own advice I'd be much better off. :)