So I been thinking about writing in general lately, and writing a book specifically. Part of that is because November is national novel writing month and that is coming up. I feel like in some ways doing other writing can be distracting, because it is time I could use working on games but also I feel it is productive in improving my overall writing skill. Also, even if I want to spend all day working on my games, some times I can’t and working on other stuff is helpful. Some times it can even be motivating and then gets me working on the games more.

Some times the distractions I get are real life stuff and family things and in those cases there is less time but often times when I don’t get much done it is just because I feel frazzled and lack focus. So some times taking a break and writing something else helps with those times, where the problem isn’t the amount of time but lack of focus. Since it is still writing, it keeps me in the mindset of writing, so I don’t just go off and play games and then nothing productive happens at all.