This post is for my "Friends Who Write". It is a temporary post and I will likely take it down as I am using this to post a challenge for them.
The writing challenge for the promptapalooza is about finding hidden or wasted minutes and transforming them into productive minutes. This week is about making choices and with that said I will give you two choices on how to complete this challenge.
Challenge Option #1
Because of the way my brain is wired, I suppose, my thoughts or trains of thoughts either jump between several thoughts or thought processes or become intensely focused on one while the other thoughts run in the background. This can be a good thing but it can also waste a lot of my time if I don't control it.
Another way to explain this is that sometimes I have the attention span of a two year old while at other times I hyperfocus like when my kids are playing video games and sometimes I have both of these processes at the same time. No cracks please about having a mind of a child...lol. Then again...if it makes you laugh go ahead and joke away.
In a writing lifestyle, this is great for research but not so good for getting supper on the table or keeping the house clean. So one thing that works for me when I want to get a lot done is to use the 6 or 15 minute rule. Same principle but different focus.
So this part of the challenge is welcome to my world of mind control. lol
Six minutes challenge
When I need to get a lot done what works for me is to break up an hour into 10 6-minute sessions. I set a timer for six minutes and in every six minute session I do something different-depending on what I want to do that day.
Example
1st-pray
2nd-exercise
3rd-clean
4th-title
5th-write AC
6th-laundry
7th-project church
8th-project organization
9th-write fiction
10th-rest FB/email
There is a bit of prep work such as opening and keeping files open or deciding on what exercises I want to do etc.
Anyways the challenge is to try this for 1 hour sometime during the week. It will seem somewhat fractured just doing it for one hour but I would be interested to hear how much or what you did in the hour.
The only requirements are that at least one of the sessions has to do with the writing you have been putting aside because you don't have time for it and you need to post how it went.
Also, if you don't want to do 10 sessions of 6 minutes you can do 6 sessions of 10 minutes.
Option number two
Finding time wasters...I think TV wastes a lot of my time in the evenings. While often that is my down time-which is ok...I think the commercials are just a complete waste of my time and in some ways they are just another form of mind control that I don't want to be a part of...So option number two is if at sometime during the week you spend 1 hour watching TV...TiVo not allowed...when the commercials come on instead of blankly absorbing them or running to get a snack or whatever you normally do during a commercial try to use that time to write on your fiction or the writing you avoid because you don't have time or because you feel guilty about writing and not earning.
Once you complete the challenge post your results or comment on the process on the "Friends Who Write" page.
Have fun!
Julie
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