Check In Day 26

[fleetsparrow]

You know, every time I think, "I'm probably getting Too Old(tm) for Christmas" I remember that I spend the days leading up to it thinking it must be Christmas now, and the days after it, uh, wondering why I have to go back to work.

Or maybe I'm just chronically tired.  WHO KNOWS!

Poll #32433

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Any post-holiday writing time?

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A little bit.
1 (33.3%)

A lotta bit!
2 (66.7%)

Nope!
0 (0.0%)

Nope, but sad about it.
0 (0.0%)

Ask again, tomorrow.
0 (0.0%)

"Ask again tomorrow"--joke's on y'all, I'm here all week.

Discussion time:  I will be the first to admit that I am not a visual artist at all.  Calling my drawings "stick figures" is actually a wild overestimation of my abilities.  BUT the one thing I've learned over the years of watching my best friend (who is a very good visual artist) visually art, is that sketching is not only a very good way to pass time, but is also incredibly important in developing visual art skills.

Now, I don't know that there's necessarily a 1:1 relationship between visual art and writing art, but I do know that thinking of all my many, many, too many half-started and unfinished fics/stories as a kind of written sketching and not always Works In Progress (in the sense of In Progress That Must Be Finished) has been percolating a lot this past month as I've left the nebulous cloud of burnout that I've been living in.  Thinking of these as sketches (in the sense of trial and error, learning, or even play) instead of Things To Do has suddenly given me a lot more positive thoughts when perusing my yearly Scrivener file than earlier in the year.

So, how do you think of your writing?  Do you have a sense of--for lack of a better term--a timeline for anything you're still working on?  Do you find a difference between drafted, unfinished, not yet finished, and/or abandoned--or any other terms you might use?