Work is cramping my style. I have been swamped at work lately. So busy, that I have been going in an hour early every day and working through lunch just to keep up. That extra hour of early time means that I don’t get to do any writing and of course when I have no time to spend writing, I have lots of great story ideas. All of these ideas come when I’m either walking the dogs, taking a shower or doing something else that entails my hands being otherwise occupied and there is no paper or pen around so I can at least jot down an idea. Then just like a dog seeing a squirrel, I start something else and totally forget what I wanted to say. I have no idea how many story ideas that I’ve lost and are floating around in the mishmash of my brain among all of the other things I’ve forgotten, like where I put the electric bill.
What I need is a thought activated idea recorder that will record my random thoughts, organize them into complete sentences and write a finished polished story. I could then take my idea recorder, plug it into the computer and download this wonderful story. What a superb product this would be. Every writer I know would have one. Sadly I know of no such gadget or believe me I would be the first to own one.
But back to my original thought, work is definitely getting in the way of my writing. (See what I mean about “squirrel”? One minute I’m focused the next off on another tangent.) The audacity of a company in the business of making a profit through the labor of their employees, said company shows its’ appreciation by paying us a salary and actually expects us to work and earn that salary. Can you believe it? Actually work to receive my paycheck? Oh man, the unfairness of it all. But I really like eating, I’m not the starving artist type, so I go in and work every day giving it my all, so for now I have to squeeze out my writing time when I can, right along with my work out time, which isn’t getting done on a regular basis either.
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work really gets in the way of my photography…I can relate….and I work from home.
I wish I could work from home or better yet I wish I was independently wealthy and could just pursue my writing and photography.
I use the voice recorder on my iphone and speak into it alot to record ruby’s adventures and random thoughts – might help to recall?
Good idea I’ll give that a try and let you know if it helps.
I guess I don’t need to ask if you are getting any help with work. Wish the powers to be would provide some assistance for you and ensure everyone was carrying their share. Don’t kill yourself, life is too short. Take care and give Mitch our best.
Broge
Thanks for caring. You’re right about life is too short. I’ll tell Mitch and let Nancy know we miss you both very much.
Yes, can understand your thoughts here. The ideas are there for a moment and gone after sometime, before we could put it down somewhere. The thought of idea recorder sounds great though
I definitely need all the help I can get.
Darn work. It is always the way. I get great ideas for blog posts and then when I have time for them, I forget what I wanted to write about.
I agree. Work – a body would think that the company pays my salary or something.
Thanks for reading.