When there's no time for writing fanfic. . .

[catscradle]

I'm about to claim defeat. Working full time is just not condusive to writing fanfic. Since I started this new job I finished a whopping two fics in seven months. I've got six fic ideas breathing down my neck - three of them actually started - and I'm just way too tired at the end of the day to write anything.

Anyone else have the problem of mundania keeping them from doing anything like a hobby?

How does one make a living and keep from going insane? I'm just asking. . .

Comments

[darthneko.livejournal.com]

This is why my fics have gone from 40-60 page monstrosities to 3-4 pages each. v_v Short if good! Short is nifty! Short I actually have the energy to write on occasion, whereas the idea of anything longer than 10 pages is so impossible on current energy levels and work constraints that I can't even imagine it. >_

[babaca.livejournal.com]

It's why I mostly just write on the weekends. I might start working on a story late at night, but it never gets concluded until the weekend. (And I try never to write uberfics).

Sometimes when I get home an idea is itching to get out, I'll fire up the machine and start writing (if I can prevent myself from logging on to the net or firing up The Sims first!) ^____^

*g*

[damoyre.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. I was starting to think that I was just not motivated enough, or that I was weird. (Well... I *am* weird, but that's not the reason I'm not writing any fanfic. ;)

It's hard to juggle a full-time job, marriage, and kids. I'm exhausted by the end of the day. Yet, amazingly enough, I know at least two people who are able to do all that, and still manage to be prolific writers. I don't know how they do it....

I wish...

[damoyre.livejournal.com]

That method might work for me... if only I didn't have a hubby and kids to take care of on the weekends ;)

[catscradle.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately I'm not getting as far as firing up Word to write shorts *g* And of course my fics are simply as long as they're going to be. I can't start off thinking that they're going to be 3 pages or 30 - they always have a mind of their own - damn things =P

[catscradle.livejournal.com]

Weekends. . . I remember when weekends were relaxing and time for writing. It seems now though that I've always got some stupid thing to do over the weekends. . . or that I'm cleaning or need to rest. Maybe I just need more iron in my diet. I don't know. . . =P

Re: *g*

[catscradle.livejournal.com]

God bless 'em. I really don't know how any writing gets done at all when you have young kids. I tried to do it when I babysitted and it was completely impossible. My hats off to all the young mothers that still can write!