**sits on the bench** Hi, friends! I've got something I'd like to explore with you. It's a good thing, actually! And it makes me think about the creative process in a way I'm curious about.
Here's the situation: In my main job, I've been put in charge of a big project that will be implemented this year: I'll be quite busy with it for the whole next 12 months, and then even after, it's something that will be a big part of my professional life.
The project brings up all sorts of feelings in me:
- excitement (it's a cool project that will benefit our whole school district!);
- insecurity (it feels really high stakes);
- creative enthusiasm (it offers all sorts of neat collaboration and opportunities for creative problem-solving)
Those are the main feelings...
Anyway, what I'd like to explore with all of you is how this relates my activities as a SimLit writer:
I can feel that this project is asking for lots of my energy: creative energy, organizational energy, and collaborative energy.
For that past 20 months, this energy has been flowing into my Simming projects--and that's been so fun and rewarding. Now I feel like a channel has been switched, and all these energies are flowing towards this work project.
That's cool--and as it should be. At the same time, I want to maintain connection with my Simming and Sim writing projects.
So here's what I'd love to explore with you and hear from you:
I know that all of you have other activities and involvements in life that ask for your attention and energy: your professions, your families, your friendships and love relationships, your school and studies, other creative projects, and also personal life transitions that ask for creative responses.
So...
When you feel that your other involvements are asking for a lot of your creative energies, how do you manage to stay involved with Simming and Sim writing--or do you? How do your Simming/Sim writing projects feed your other creative involvements, and how do your other creative involvements feed your Simming/Sim writing projects?And one thing I wonder about... when my energies are being asked to flow into other projects, how valuable are my Simming and Sim Lit projects? Do they offer enough to me and to others for me to keep involved with them, or should I let them go? Do you wonder about this with your own Simming and Sim writing projects? How do you find balance?
