Do the Math:

[writingvixen.livejournal.com]

Just did the math:

November: 721 hours
Sleep: 240 hours
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Leaving: 481 hours

So:

November: 481 hours
Eating/Hygiene: 45 hours
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Leaving: 436 hours

So:

November: 436 hours
Work/School: 160 hours
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Leaving: 276 hours

So:

November: 276 hours
Life: 36 hours
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Leaving: 240 hours

So:

November: 240 hours

What are you going to do with those 240 hours? That's 8 hours* a day. You can use those to figure out how he met his mother, to play on the computer, obsess over your glitch, or farmville.

Or:

You could write a novel.

I choose plan B. How about you?

*On average. Again, it's different for everyone, but still it's jarring just how much time we really DO have when you break it down.

Comments

[meketserqet.livejournal.com]

i tried this out for giggles, approximating my own numbers... and hey, look at that! 6 hours a day! most of that is weekend time, really, because unless i'm bending time and space i'm not getting those 6 hours in after work, but... it's really encouraging! and makes the whole process seem considerably less intimidating :D

[writingvixen.livejournal.com]

Exactly! When we break down what we have to do, we're often surprised with just how much time remains! We just have to make a choice on what we want to do with it :)

[meketserqet.livejournal.com]

We just have to make a choice on what we want to do with it :)

and remind ourselves that the choice should not be "VIDEO GAMES!" or "CRAPPY MOVIE MARATHON" or "STARE BLANKLY AT THE WALL"!! *laughs*

though the latter is how i spend most of Nano anyway...

[writingvixen.livejournal.com]

Me? It's mainly 'organizing' things that don't need organized but I convince myself that NEED TO BE DONE AT THAT EXACT MOMENT.

Sigh.

[meketserqet.livejournal.com]

ooooh yes, the organizing.

last year i went digging in my many folders of MP3s for a particular song that, for some reason, i HAD TO LISTEN TO for one certain scene.

five hours or so later i was done reorganizing my entire collection of MP3s, as well as editing all of the ID3 tags.

and i never did find that song.