Getting lost in your work

Wow! I wish I could 'get lost' in my work like that!

Lol, nice! Need to do something like that.

Just get up at 04h00 every morning.

I sent this article to my mother. "IT COULD BE WORSE." I always tell her if I'm going to be gone longer than a day and if I'm lost in my work I'm usually on my couch or hers, so she has nothing more to fret about!

. . . she'll find something, though.

Lol…, try it !
Peace, quite, no kids and seeing the birds still in their pyjamas…, who needs more ?

Usually when I "get lost in my writing", it's more of the "your plot is a maze of twisty little passages, all looking alike" variety.

Helix said:

...can sometimes be a problem.

A French tourist who sparked a two-day search in Kakadu National Park had been sitting in a cave writing children's stories.

I hope they're worth it!

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Sounds like a good problem to have.

To a point......

I nonchalantly told my husband that some writers have a cabin in the woods, a cheap motel or some similar place to lock themselves away for a stretch of time to focus on their work and my husband slipped me a scared, Why-Do-You-Want-To-Get-Rid-of-Me-So-Badly look.

KDIvanov said:

I nonchalantly told my husband that some writers have a cabin in the woods, a cheap motel or some similar place to lock themselves away for a stretch of time to focus on their work and my husband slipped me a scared, Why-Do-You-Want-To-Get-Rid-of-Me-So-Badly look.

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I DO have a cabin in the woods, and I cannot write there. Too distracted by Mother Nature and all of the goings-on. I get up at 3:00 a.m. on the weekends when the house is quiet and shut the door to my room then work away. Sometimes it's productive even!

Paul Lamb said:

I DO have a cabin in the woods, and I cannot write there. Too distracted by Mother Nature and all of the goings-on. I get up at 3:00 a.m. on the weekends when the house is quiet and shut the door to my room then work away. Sometimes it's productive even!

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My DREAM is a big, glass structure in the middle of the wilderness. In reality, that would probably be terrifying.

Though I heard that being able to see greenery from where you work makes you 30 percent more productive... or something like that.

I write in the couple hours when I get home from work before my husband gets home. If I try to get up early, my darned, doting husband also wakes up. Solitude is a hot commodity.

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a woman healthy wealthy, wise and an hour in her slippers before the darned Hubby's finished his deep sleep.

I feel like a good writing retreat is definitely in order. I've never actually had the chance to do it.
Closest thing I get to a retreat is when the wife is out all day doing something by herself and that happens few and far between.

Lol… Is it not your neck of the woods that have poisonous frogs, deadly crabs on the beach and saltwater crocodiles ?
Hmmm…, think I’ll keep to my garden.

Not the most ergonomical.

Wow and LOL. Actually sounds like a dream to me (well, except for the question of sanitation )

I write between kiddos bedtime and bathtime and again right before i get ready for bed. I've also been taking my notebook or laptop to Football Practice, which lasts for a good solid two hours. So I can write inbetween watching my boys play.

Sitting in my backyard is a perfect place to write when it isn't raining. I need an awning so I can write in the rain.

I can see if he was traveling Oz by himself there might be no one to tell that he was off on a five-nighter. My boyfriend (at the time) and I did that, traveling all over in a rental car to out of the way places and camping from there. There was no one to tell where we were going.

But who leaves their wallet in the car when hiking? That trailhead in the picture wasn't exactly deserted.


They do sound like they might be intriguing stories.

KDIvanov said:

Though I heard that being able to see greenery from where you work makes you 30 percent more productive... or something like that.

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Cool. I've just put a pot plant on my desk.

Really hoping this works - I've got a ton of work to get through.