Stress and Creativity
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przedSo, apparently I'm not good at the whole writing thing when I'm stressed.
Once the already promised Christmas stories were done, I only managed to write one measly 300 word piece whilst I was in the ranks of the unemployed. I was hoping I could do much better than that.
On the other hand, in the one week since I've been back working full time, I'm almost 2,000 words into a brand new piece.
Clearly my writing brain enjoys the security of being employed.
My vidding brain, not so much. I managed to complete two vids while I was off, one of them in less than three weeks from start to finish. This is epic, since the last time I finished a vid was March 2008! (I went back and checked, and was shocked, shocked I tell you, that it was so long ago.) Mind you, I've always known that I could vid when I was a brain-damaged, sleep-deprived zombie. Being stressed about the job situation probably put me into a similar state.
On the job front, things are going well so far. I've done two small projects (a Word template for their admin. assistants, and revisions to documentation for a new application) and both have gone over well. I am having to adjust to their work culture, though. They're really into meetings and talking about doing stuff before actually doing it. I'm more the type to just get stuck into a project. I'm sure I'll get used to the new environment.
Once the already promised Christmas stories were done, I only managed to write one measly 300 word piece whilst I was in the ranks of the unemployed. I was hoping I could do much better than that.
On the other hand, in the one week since I've been back working full time, I'm almost 2,000 words into a brand new piece.
Clearly my writing brain enjoys the security of being employed.
My vidding brain, not so much. I managed to complete two vids while I was off, one of them in less than three weeks from start to finish. This is epic, since the last time I finished a vid was March 2008! (I went back and checked, and was shocked, shocked I tell you, that it was so long ago.) Mind you, I've always known that I could vid when I was a brain-damaged, sleep-deprived zombie. Being stressed about the job situation probably put me into a similar state.
On the job front, things are going well so far. I've done two small projects (a Word template for their admin. assistants, and revisions to documentation for a new application) and both have gone over well. I am having to adjust to their work culture, though. They're really into meetings and talking about doing stuff before actually doing it. I'm more the type to just get stuck into a project. I'm sure I'll get used to the new environment.
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Date: 2010-03-20 08:16 pm (UTC)I know what you mean about the passage of time. I look at stuff that I feel like I wrote yesterday and realize its been 5 years since I wrote it.
Good luck at settling into the new job. How's the commute?
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Date: 2010-03-20 09:14 pm (UTC)I can understand that, when I am stressed about something all my energy goes into that whether I want it to or not really.
Fantastic news about the job and how things are going ♥.
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Date: 2010-03-21 12:24 am (UTC)I'm more familiar with this problem that I really care to think about. It's been almost 9 weeks since I've posted anything and I only write short stories. Why does this feel like saying, "forgive me father, it's been 9 weeks since my last confession?" *g*
2,000 words? Yay! *twirls you*
I'm glad to hear that the new job is going well but "Eeeek!" to a meeting culture. I used to calculate how much of my working week was spent in meetings but it got depressing, so I stopped doing it.
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