So, the recent podcast of Writing Excuses was ridiculous. If you want to listen, go to www.writingexcuses.com and see the Season 7:14 episode; this week, they discuss all the excuses writers make to not write. This was the one episode that I'm not sure made me want to write all that much by the time I got to the end of it.
I must admit, though, that one hour later, I realized one of the excuses I was using. Eveningtime is the best time for me to write currently, and I do manage a thousand words a day. This might take me an hour but usually less. Then the next four hours are devoted to movies and television and before I know it, it's after midnight and I'm getting as little sleep as I did the night before.
That Hulu is how I'm getting my TV fix is irrelevant. It's free, sure, but before I went to that site, I watched regular TV programming. Both are free in the sense that after I purchased my TV or laptop, there's no financial obligation to watch these programs.
Except they're not free. It costs me huge chunks of time in which nothing significant happens. To make myself feel better, I'll share with others these great shows and get my friends hooked but it's a fake sense of accomplishment. The truth is, I haven't made their lives any better. I've just dragged them down to my level.
I guess that makes me the devil. Crap.
Ha! I hear ya. But in my case it's Netflix. ;)
ReplyDeleteI am so happy I haven't been suckered into that yet. I might never leave the TV.
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