Hey folks!

Well, it’s been a few weeks since I pulled the plug on the old Facebook account. Not a permanent move, but I’m definitely going to keep it switched off for the rest of the financial year.

Since doing this, I’ve blown the dust from my yet-to-be-named thriller novel and cranked out another four chapters. I wrote the first half of the novel about this time last year, and it’s been good to dive back into the work. Finding that I still have interest in the central premise of the story tells me it most likely holds water. I think 2 or 3 months of this level of productivity should see the first draft conquered and begging for mercy 🙂

I must say that I admire creatives who are able to multi-task. Artists who can focus on their social media presence, engage with people, skirt the rabbit-hole of general Internettery and actually accomplish things.

Me, not so much. The last time I wrote a book, I was writing full-time on an arts grant while parenting at home. It turned out the only thing that helped me get my daily word-count down was to lock my modem in the car. That way, if I genuinely needed it, I could go out and hook up the internet again, but it was a bit of a pain in the arse. So I didn’t bother, and usually defaulted to productive work.

Fastforward to 2015. Given that half of the Fischer house now runs on Wifi, I can’t exactly hide the modem everytime I want to write. So I’ve decided to examine my reasons for procrastinating, and eliminate one or two of the biggest timewasters instead.

Happy with the results so far. I did love the community I found on FB, but too much of a good thing meant Fisch Not Writing. So I’m going cold turkey, and will revisit how I use Facebook in July. One idea I had was giving Mrs Fischer the power of the password so I check it only once a week. A more extreme solution involves foregoing all technology and living under the house until I resemble Gollum.

Onward!