tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67881661576743990.post3068002916565810886..comments2024-03-25T20:48:20.863-05:00Comments on Uncanny Valley: Lately I have been trying a thingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67881661576743990.post-18470589892442020462011-10-01T16:57:08.026-05:002011-10-01T16:57:08.026-05:00Mike and Jason, I feel the same way. Not long ago,...Mike and Jason, I feel the same way. Not long ago, I also combined read and writing, in the interchangeable sense, which I've found is an effective method for feeling productive. I have been writing reviews of literary magazines and so when I'm reading the magazines I know is time spent that will result in future writing. Sure, it's not fiction or poetry writing, but it's writing nonetheless.Mark Danowskynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67881661576743990.post-11844050405242980952011-09-09T15:18:32.878-05:002011-09-09T15:18:32.878-05:00I more or less combine reading time with writing t...I more or less combine reading time with writing time. Reading makes me want to write, and writing makes me want to read, so sometimes I'll split my time in half to do each. Sometimes I'll do one or the other. As long as I feel I'm being productive in some fashion, I'm not concerned with what, specifically, I do.Jason Jordanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17512025552464332123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67881661576743990.post-70559338435614322432011-09-09T05:55:48.503-05:002011-09-09T05:55:48.503-05:00I think my basic approach is not to waste time. Wh...I think my basic approach is not to waste time. When I was ill a few years back and had to endure long periods of brain fog I had to learn to maximise those few hours when I was clear and capable of doing something involved so I would leave routine tasks that didn’t need much brain power – formatting blogs for example – and do them when I couldn’t focus on anything else. Nowadays I’m still prone to mood swings and bad nights so whereas when I was younger I used to be a morning person these days I leave my real writing until later in the day normally but I find the best thing has been to have a stockpile of work that I can fall back on so I never <i>have</i> to get an article or a review done in a couple of days. I still have only a limited amount of time to do everything but if I can’t get my head around something there’s no harm in leaving it for a day or two until I’m in the best frame of mind to tackle that particular task. Reading is just another task and it very much depends on what I’m reading how I approach it. The book I’m on just now is 1050 pages long and so I’ve assigned myself 50 pages a day and that’s as much as I can handle because it is not an easy read. But there have been other books where I’ve read them over two days without any problem.<br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.com