{"id":1283,"date":"2010-07-07T18:10:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T22:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2017-03-15T12:36:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T16:36:26","slug":"writing-wednesday-winding-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/07\/writing-wednesday-winding-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Wednesday: Winding Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/postphotos\/windingdown_small.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photo: Janelle Vanden Berg\" title=\"Winding Down\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" align=\"right\" \/>As a freelancer (and sometimes work-a-holic), taking time off can be a struggle. We feel like we should always be working, doing more, and when we don&#39;t, we often guilt ourselves into compensating the next day with more work than we started out with.<\/p>\n<p> Not this time.<\/p>\n<p> I&#39;m taking next week off and I am SO ready for it. I have blogs I want to write, articles I should finish beforehand &#8211; but it all amounts to doing double the work this week, and I just can&#39;t get my head into it.<\/p>\n<p> The good news is I have fallen back into a regular writing routine after struggling for a few months there. But I&#39;m afraid I&#39;ll slip right back into my funk when I take the entire week off.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, we have some fun activities planned and haven&#39;t I said before that sometimes you just need to decompress and be inspired by life in order to have something that&#39;s worth writing about?<\/p>\n<p>So really, the guilt and pressure are all self-imposed. How about a little self-imposed pleasure? Dip my toes in the pool, soak up some sun, eat some ice cream and get away for a while, right? It&#39;ll all be waiting for me when I get back.<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>My Works-In-Progress<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Well, it took a few weeks longer than I thought but I finally finished my tweet-inspired tale! Maybe once it finds a home, I&#39;ll spill the beans on whose tweet inspired me<\/li>\n<li>I haven&#39;t even started planning my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wesewrimo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">WeSeWriMo<\/a> project yet, not really! I&#39;ve tried but keep getting stuck. Maybe my week off will allow my thoughts to settle and the perfect idea will come to me. I hope&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Instead of driving myself completely insane, I&#39;m going to hold off on my <a href=\"http:\/\/redpennypapers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">RPP<\/a> idea until later. I haven&#39;t even looked at it since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\/eng\/user\/124492\/\" target=\"_blank\">NaNoWriMo<\/a> &#8211; I imagine it will need a lot of reworking, which isn&#39;t a bad thing. Sometimes the editing goes smoother than diving into something new<\/li>\n<li>I&#39;ve been meaning to finalize my swag giveaway but it keeps getting pushed to the backburner. I&#39;ll need to tackle it when I&#39;m back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> So, how to you cope with being constantly on the go and finding it hard to take some time for yourself? 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