Search where?

This Portfolio (shiki105)

All of Writing.Com

◄ October ► 2019
S	M	T	W	T	F	S
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30	31
Archive				RSS

Create New Item

Read & Review

Community

Browse By Type

Browse By Genre

Writing Resources

Tue, Nov 25, 2025

2:28am EST

Members: 546

Guests: 6,476

Total Online: 7,022

Writing for Fun and Leisure

by LazyWriter

Rated: 13+ · Book · Personal · #2186370

Well, not so much fun and leisure as...get some damn writing done, you fool!

A while ago, I attended a writers' workshop and the lady who hosted it told us all to go away with this bit of advice - to write for just ten minutes a day. I was determined to go ahead with it and I did...for two days. So today I remembered that I'd resolved to do so and I whipped out my journal and wrote for fifteen minutes.

I'm typing out pretty much the same thing that I wrote earlier, with some differences. I find I can go a lot more in-depth when I'm typing than when I'm writing by hand. Writing by hand is such a chore!

I've struggled with loneliness a lot throughout my twenty-nine years. I struggled with it when I was the only one home with my mum when I was a teen and everybody else had other places to be. I struggled with it after marriage and when we moved into our own house for the first time. I struggled with it after my son was born and I felt torn between pursuing my writing and being a good mum, because my culture seems to indicate that a woman has absolutely no chance of living her own life - or at least, she has no chance of attaining any goals she hasn't already attained - once she has children.

I feel it occasionally still, even though I get so little time to myself nowadays that any alone time is simply awesome. I've tried to come to terms with the idea that being alone isn't a bad thing - and a lot of the time, it isn't. My friends don't live nearby so I don't get to see them often, and even when I do, I feel like there isn't much depth to our conversations. I'm surrounded by people who do not think like me, who do not share any of my interests and hobbies. I feel like I've become desensitised to isolation. Loneliness is my preferred way to be.

I walked into my college cafeteria at lunch today and it was the usual hubbub of activity. Youngsters walking around, chatting animatedly, shouting across the room, laughing, eating, socialising. I could recall how that clamour wouldn't have bothered me ten-twelve years ago, when I would have been one of the youngsters talking excitedly with her friends. But, as this moment, I just found an out-of-the-way little table and sat down. I watched the crowds for a while, wondering why it was only at moments like these that the sense of isolation became so strong. In the middle of a crowd, I feel most alone.

Show Recent Comments

10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

Kåre เลียม Enga

Nov 9, 2019 at 6:55pm
In response to "Invalid Entry"

I've made that mistake... but here I sit in the kitchen area... no glass in hand.

Kit_Carmelite

Oct 31, 2019 at 9:36pm
In response to "Invalid Entry"

We creative types are often slaves to our feelings. If we don’t “feel” like doing something, it is so much harder for us to push past that to “just do it” than for less emotional and more structured types.

Jaelynn

Sep 3, 2019 at 3:39pm
In response to "Invalid Entry"

LOL. You're not alone, my friends.... I do this all the time.
Pssst... join the club (we meet on Tuesdays

)

Best of luck with your next streak, LazyWriter

LdyPhoenix

Sep 3, 2019 at 2:34pm
In response to "Invalid Entry"

I feel you on remembering a task and then prompting forgetting to do. Even though I know myself enough, I always mentally tell myself "in a moment" or "in two shakes of a lamb's tail", and then immediately forget what I was planning to do next, lol.

You'll do great building up your language streaks again. I wish you all the luck with it in the future.

kindness is in

Aug 12, 2019 at 1:46pm
In response to "Invalid Entry"

Any writing is better than no writing. I do admire busy people who can make time to write. I'm retired and have no excuses except procrastination. Keep up the good work!

Kåre เลียม Enga

Aug 2, 2019 at 11:48pm
In response to "Invalid Entry"

Reminds me of country "I've done someone wrong" songs we have here in the USA. Have fun with it.

Kåre เลียม Enga

Jul 31, 2019 at 7:53pm
In response to "Invalid Entry"

A blog can be anything you want it to be. I have one for opinions, for personal stuff, for when I travel, based on the news. I've used them for poetry and contests and challenges.

And I've changed focus over time. When I was homeless years ago, Blogville was my online home. I backed up most of those entries and still can access many. Some day they may provide grist for a memoir of that time. I was also writing in my hand-written journal. Without that any looking back would be devoid of the details I have long forgot.

Just sitting down every day for 10-20 minutes and writing whatever comes to mind counts, especially if it keeps you writing.

Kåre เลียม Enga

Jul 28, 2019 at 11:17pm
In response to "Invalid Entry"

Laziness or lack of focus or overwhelm? You may be being a bit hard on yourself.

I'd never heard of "Umbrella Academy" so I looked it up. Intriguing trailer but I don't have Netflix so I'll just have to wait.

Kåre เลียม Enga

Jul 25, 2019 at 10:00pm
In response to "Invalid Entry"

You do well for short blogs. You do well squeezing the time in with a small child. Basically... you do well.

Kåre เลียม Enga

Jul 20, 2019 at 4:17pm
In response to "Invalid Entry"

I don't write fan-fiction but I have other writing obsessions, moving from one unfinished project to the next.

Which is why I was so proud of myself when I finished a chapbook in 2015 of poems I had written in 2013.

Now if in 2019 I could just gather my scattered thoughts from 2018, 2017, 2016...

Don't feel too bad. Many of us have the same struggles.

October 30, 2019 at 1:50am

#968637

Bleary-Eyed and...Not-Bushy-Tailed...

05:41

I got up at 4am, thinking the beeping I could hear was my alarm so I blindly reached for my clock and "turned it off", then noticed my husband's phone alarm was going off "too" (exact same sound, be-be-be-beep! Be-be-be-beep! Be-be-be-beep! The MOST annoying sound in the world!) I didn't occur to me at this time to wonder why my alarm clock would go off at the exact same time as my husband's, since I don't wake up at four! Rather, I was confused as to why my husband was getting up an hour later. I curled up, pretending to be asleep so he wouldn't ask me to make breakfast for him and willing him to go so I could enjoy some peace and quiet and get some work done before the little one wakes up. Then I looked at my watch and it was half four by this time. I was surprised, to say the least! I'd missed out on an hour of sleep! But that's nothing new. It always feels like I've missed out on sleep, even when I manage a solid seven hours so...I think I should try eight hours.

Anyway, enough of my early-morning antics. I think I got in a thousand words of random writing yesterday. It felt good but I didn't get much time. Or maybe I just didn't utilise the time that I had efficiently. I dunno. I get so lazy. But I don't think this will be a problem for NaNo. Once I'm signed up, I'm usually dedicated.

With two mins to spare, I'm off! Nothing more to say for this great day! And I bid you...adieu!

05:50

Comment

Printed from https://www.writing.com/main/books/item_id/2186370-Writing-for-Fun-and-Leisure/day/10-30-2019

Site Links:

Resources:

Need help?

Please post questions in
our support forum.

Places of Interest: Unique Wedding Invitations for unique wedding needs. Color Copiers found here.
Baby Names can be hard to pick. Hands-free hygenic toilet seats covers. Dramatic Music rocks.
Vampires are people too. Write Poetry here. Try this Stock Market quiz.
Teaching is a noble job. Get info on Tax Refunds.

All Writing.Com images are copyrighted and may not be copied / modified in any way.
All other brand names & trademarks are owned by their respective companies.

Generated in 0.17 seconds at 2:28am on Nov 25, 2025 via server WEBX2.