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martinlivings) wrote2008-10-04 08:22 am
martinlivings) wrote2008-10-04 08:22 am
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Downsizing...
I've been thinking a lot lately about how I spend (or possibly waste) my time, especially online. A goodly portion of every day get eaten up by a variety of things online, particularly:
- LJ f-list
- LOLCats (and related amusements)
- Cracked.com
- web comics (about a dozen of them!)
- Dark Horizons entertainment news
- Facebook (primarily playing Countdown)
And probably many more. How many of these things are actually important? Any of them? And are they more important than getting some writing done?
I don't think so. And, with my new job absorbing most of my time, I think it's time to downsize.
I don't want to drop off LJ altogether. But I think I read too much on it. So it's time to do that most dreaded of all things, and cut back my f-list. I have to be brutal. I need to regain some time for writing. At any cost. Minimise the distractions. When I sit at my computer, my first reaction should be to open the Work In Progress, not spend an hour trawling through f-list posts. Bad writer, no biscuit!
Anyway, that decision is easy. The next - which to keep and which to cut - is hard. Like choosing which fingers to chop off.
- LJ f-list
- LOLCats (and related amusements)
- Cracked.com
- web comics (about a dozen of them!)
- Dark Horizons entertainment news
- Facebook (primarily playing Countdown)
And probably many more. How many of these things are actually important? Any of them? And are they more important than getting some writing done?
I don't think so. And, with my new job absorbing most of my time, I think it's time to downsize.
I don't want to drop off LJ altogether. But I think I read too much on it. So it's time to do that most dreaded of all things, and cut back my f-list. I have to be brutal. I need to regain some time for writing. At any cost. Minimise the distractions. When I sit at my computer, my first reaction should be to open the Work In Progress, not spend an hour trawling through f-list posts. Bad writer, no biscuit!
Anyway, that decision is easy. The next - which to keep and which to cut - is hard. Like choosing which fingers to chop off.