I have a 75 pound dog lying in my lap with her nose on my touch pad. I can’t scroll pages or navigate so I’m typing instead. I’m not going to the right sites and she’s not happy about it. She doesn’t care about yarn or gaming stuff, she just wants to go here. I cranked out 20 or so rounds on the Rogue yesterday while I sat thinking that I should be doing some more work on the story I started. It’s funny how they go together. When I get started on knitting something it’s a great time for my mind to wander and as much as I have to concentrate on what I’m doing, I can still work around the ideas that are twisting around in my head.
I would have said my worst distraction was WoW up until a few weeks ago, but then again, I have made a habit of kitting while sitting around during raids and while traveling. I decided to take a break two weeks ago, and I haven’t logged in since. I’ve watched programs that I normally miss, and apparently I’ve missed a nice bit of guild drama as well. I keep saying I should hop back in and see what’s going on, but having my time back to do other things keeps winning out. I guess it’s dealing with a type of burnout, I never got to a point where I didn’t like playing. In fact, I have 3 characters at 70 with another at 65, plus a few little ones as well that were more for goofing around. I had been slacking off a bit to start with before the break, only logging in to do the nightly runs with the guild, but even that isn’t pulling me back in right now. On the other hand, I’m flying through a couple of knitting projects and getting things organized a bit around the house.
I’ve been using Scrivener to organize the writing and I’m quite happy with the way it works. I’ve run a few different writing programs in the past, and have always found them a bit rigid for the way I think. I have a habit of running in circles when I write, in terms of bouncing from one section of a story, to outlining, to coming up with a whole new environment, and I can do that with ease. The fact that I can pull outside information like web links, images, and such into the program helps a lot, and keeps me from getting distracted by the pretty blue and green stumble link. I’m still running the trial for now, but I think I’ll be grabbing the full version this weekend.
