I’m working on a couple regular posts, but for now, here’s a fun, off-topic post about my blogging/writing habits …
It’s funny how every blogger has their preferred blogging time and place. Some like it before work, some after; some like to write into the late hours of the night and some like to get up before the sun to write.
My blogging habits have changed over the past of couple of years. Early on, I would only write after work, but I rarely type posts after work anymore. Sometimes I do, but I find that it starts the gears turning in my mind and usually sets me up for a restless night of sleep. (Such a sensitive one, that mind of mine.)
Now, I find that writing is on my mind much more regularly. I’m usually jotting down thoughts in one of several mini-notebooks that I’ve started carrying around with me. Currently, my favorite notebook is the red one that’s covered in pink flowers – totally me – there in that picture to the right.
Almost every post that you see on this blog is drafted during my lunch hour at work. I like to scout out an empty conference room (sure would be nice to have an office!) and spend 30 to 60 minutes at one end of a long meeting 
table, clicking away on my miniature netbook keyboard (that cute little white thing to the left there).
Even though I spend most of the day slaving away on spreadsheets and financial systems, I feel that when I write over lunch, I am able to carve a little slice of time out of my day for me and that I get more out of my day (I also used to feel this way when I made time to work out over lunch – but, as I already mentioned, I’m now trying to work out in the morning).
Sometimes, I can’t make time to write. During the beginning and end of the month, I’m usually annoyingly busy (such is the life of an Accountant) and often don’t have time to break for lunch. Other times, even when I’m not really busy at work, I just waste my lunch break with:
- mindless Internet surfing
- telling my co-workers long, boring stories about my wedding (he he)
- going on a walk
- making personal calls
- running errands
- staring blankly out the window … whatevs – you know you’ve had days like that, too
These are all good ways to spend the lunch hour, but don’t leave me quite as happy as my lunchtime writing sessions do (well, the walk usually does … gets those endorphins pumping and all that jazz).
I usually always plan time to write during the weekends, too.
I always daydream about these marathon Saturday morning writing sessions where I have my coffee cup in hand, I’m deep in thought and staring out the window at the stormy weather, while a narrator tells the audience everything I’m thinking … but that hardly ever happens. In fact, I’m one of those writers that desperately wants to write, but hardly ever gets around to it. Funny how that works. 
What are your blogging/writing habits like? How do you make time in your day to do the things you love?
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