Divisions and Precisions

Muse Abused

I'm discovering there are drawbacks to having an overactive muse. Particularly, a muse that sits on your back like a large, nasty monkey with a grating voice and a riding crop.

For the past week or so, I have had, simply, too many projects to work on. I'm getting tangled up in my own ideas until my feet get twisted around, I fall over, and nothing gets accomplished. So I get frustrated, and even less gets accomplished. To make things even worse, due to software considerations at work (which I've been bitching about in the blog ) and just how very busy we've been at work, I haven't been able to get anything done of my own, either. (I know, poor baby, I have to actually work at work.) Here's a brief list of what's clamoring for my attention:

• Right now the top of the list is my infant MUSH and its accompanying website . The website is coming along nicely (as I can work on that at work), but the MUSH itself is nowhere near ready for public consumption. May never be, but that's another story.

• I'm working on another project for Tribe 8 . I'm really excited about it, but I'm kinda scared about this one too.

• One very loud short story idea in my head, that I've actually started but haven't touched in about a month.

• Two novel ideas, one of which I've started, the other is still in planning phases -- neither of which I've touched in about a month.

• This journal, which is turning into a lifeline at times.

• One very loud character history for a tabletop game that may never even start up again.

• Planning and plotting for my Changeling game, which includes trying to post a few more synopses around here somewhere. And trying to figure out what happens after this current story arc.

• School? Oh yeah. That's right. I've got homework too.

Right now I'm trying to focus on one thing and ignore the siren call of the other projects, just so I can finish one thing . I know I've been bitchy and irritable at a lot of people this week. Not to foist the blame on something else or anything, but let's just say this monkey of mine (let's call him Bobo, shall we?) is causing a lot of trouble right now. Posted by Lisa at January 18, 2001 11:08 AM