Current mood:	tired
Entry tags:	excuses, hagaren country, it is time

Social Albatross
I haven't been writing lately. Why? Because somehow, someway, I've been slowly developing a social life (*dun dun duuuuuun*). As a writer, this is a debilitating habit to contract--almost on the same level as a musician going deaf. Seeing as how I have even less free time than normal during the summer since I've taken on more hours at work, having a social life makes it extremely difficult to get into a writing groove. Take yesterday (Saturday) for example. Usually, I'd sit around my apartment with a bag of carrots and thirty gallons of Crystal Lite and cherry Pepsi, writing my little heart out. However, I spent four hours yesterday down at the boardwalk with my friends eating a lot of really, really bad (but delicious) food. ;P Then we saw Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and then we came home and talked about it for another two hours. I finally crawled into bed at 2am without even booting up my computer once during the day. This is very rare for me, but it's been happening more and more often.

The good news is that one of these friends is leaving Tuesday to spend two and a half weeks in Tokyo with her Japanese boyfriend (let's all take a moment to hate her guts... haha I'm just joking--sort of). This will free up a lot of social time since she's one of the main reasons I'm so "out-and-about".

I'm not saying that I'm sad that I'm making friends, but I haven't found the right way to balance social time and writing time. I've always been a loner, so suddenly finding myself with all this stuff to do is kind of daunting and rather... draining. I don't know how you socialites do it! I can barely keep track of five friends--let alone five-hundred like some other people I know.

Anyway, I've been just writing bits and pieces of stuff lately (including some really, really, really bad stuff for Hagaren Country that no one will ever see lest they want their brains to explode). Episode 2 for It is Time is, literally, paragraphs away from finished, but I just can't find the right flow of action to get the words across. Hagaren Country is coming a long very slowly. I know this is the one that everyone is clamoring for, but I just can't push it along. So, I'm going to finish up this chapter for IiT and then I'll focus all my energy on Chaptire.II of HC. And, until I hit some major writer's block, I'll alternate between the two like that until one of them gets finished.

Well, that's the plan anyway. Who knows how it'll work out?