Yeah, magically having more time isn't usually a choice. If you could do that, you'd have done that.
Nenya, the other day, ran into a meme that said something like: The key to good writing is to find the most idtastic terrible idea that no one else in the world except is ever going to write, and then to write that.
I mean, I don't know, I've never thought of going pro with this because OMG that sounds so stressful, but that also seems to be the angle a lot of my author friends take? You're having fun talking to the people in your head. Sometimes it's stressful, and drudgy work, but the end goal is the story only you want to exist. Until someone else reads it and goes, "Yes. That." At which point you have communicated.
(I'm admittedly better at finishing things when I'm not playing the points game. There's irony: Colonel Kink might actually be LOWERING my productivity.)
Re: Output, oh output. Wherefore art thou, output?
Nenya, the other day, ran into a meme that said something like: The key to good writing is to find the most idtastic terrible idea that no one else in the world except is ever going to write, and then to write that.
I mean, I don't know, I've never thought of going pro with this because OMG that sounds so stressful, but that also seems to be the angle a lot of my author friends take? You're having fun talking to the people in your head. Sometimes it's stressful, and drudgy work, but the end goal is the story only you want to exist. Until someone else reads it and goes, "Yes. That." At which point you have communicated.
I did take panel notes on mental health and creative fields panel at world con: https://muccamukk.dreamwidth.org/1154703.html
(I'm admittedly better at finishing things when I'm not playing the points game. There's irony: Colonel Kink might actually be LOWERING my productivity.)