Productivity and Idleness

Thanksgiving ended, and the days off were fun enough. I just relaxed, watched the anime, Fairy Tail, and hung out with friends. I did some writing-related things, but not as much as I planned to do. Now, I can’t say that I feel good about being so idle and not working on writing and editing enough. It really is ingrained in me at this point to always be productive and working on something.

Generally, I spend one hour at least a day with writing, editing or something else writing-related. I have to really think about dedicating a lot more time on being productive on my days off where I pretty much have the whole day free. It’s becoming imperative to speed up the process with things like editing and just getting stuff done, as I haven’t written a new story in a while. I have a couple stories on the docket partly done, but I’d really like to get back to the creative process of writing again.

I admittedly wasted a lot of time in my twenties just being idle and not really having much in terms of goals or aspirations. I am hard on myself for being idle these days because I feel that I’m making up for lost time now, and I spent years just sitting around doing nothing of importance or value, so I can’t be doing that now. I feel compelled to stay productive throughout the day now, as I pretty much spent years more-or-less just relaxing and doing enough to get by, but not doing enough to get ahead.