Set your timer: Keep a notebook of the amount of tv you watch in a week and assess whether you could find more time to write. Try to write a character in a series you watch, or watch half of one of your favorite shows and write the second half.
Well, duh. I don't need to keep a notebook to tell me that I'm watching too much tv. Speaking of Notebook, don't you just love Ryan Gosling?
Here's the deal:
I watch too much tv.
I love to go to the movies.
I love to read.
There are so many distracting things in my life, it's a wonder that I am able to write at all! But I did use this exercise to try and encourage some brainstorming for book ideas this past weekend. Two of my favorite movies were on this weekend and I taped them both: How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days, and The Proposal. Talk about a happy Saturday! If I could bottle them up and package it into a book I would.
These are the books I like to read and essentially, write. I just keep thinking the idea will come to me, in the middle of the night, and yet it hasn't. I have a hundred characters in my head that I love, but can't find them a home. Very frustrating, but at the same time, I know it's part of the package. I know that embracing all of it will make it happen sooner.
In the meantime, I'm going to catch up on a little Y and R.
Have a lovely day...
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