Many of us struggle to find a sort of balance between our work and our lives. We bring work home on the weekends, make personal calls from the office, or otherwise blur the lines between things that belong solely in the home or in the office. It’s important to keep these things as separate as possible, though, and what we should be doing is fighting for that kind of distinction.
In my life, I often struggle with the computer. I do most of my work online, and most of my hobbies are electronic as well. As a result, people most often assume that when I’m at my desk I’m working, even if I’m really reading sports articles, playing games, or writing. Most of this confusion is my fault, I’ll admit, but I’ve tried lately to keep things a little more separate.
As many of you know, last month I entered NaNoWriMo, a one-month writing contest for fiction aficionados.
This brought about a very serious problem for me. I love writing, and I love sharing my writing with others (hence this blog). But my major creative outlet wasn’t really the most appropriate for a fiction novel. You come here to read about marketing and the life of a marketer, not to suffer through his endless drivel of horror-ridden fiction.
So I created a second blog, Painting with Prose, to hold my creative works. Rather than publish multiple times each week, Painting with Prose will update on Mondays only and will feature both my most recent finished and unfinished works. I’ve got quite a bit of content up there so far, and as of today I’m more than half way through publishing my NaNoWriMo novel there as well.
Think about what you do for work and for fun. How distinct are these two different worlds? Do you struggle to find a balance, or do you cling fiercely to the separation between them?
