an Update!

[vg_ford]

Well, I am now on nights. I have discovered 2 things about the night shift at my work:

1. People panic at 10 pm and decide they need to call. I never realized I could have calls WAITING at 10:30 at night to talk about their benefits! O_o

2. It's much easier to write at night. Even when all you are doing is silliness - character sketching.

I have a wonderful set of books called Heroes Now! and Heroes of Tomorrow - they are basically collections of random tables to do up a background for a roleplaying character. I use them, however, to make up characters for fun - some of them even get beyond their character life stories into real characters! It gives me a creative outlet and is fun.

I think I'm going to make a bar and put these particular characters in it. I haven't decided yet.

Now to write some more on Belladonna so I'm not totally behind by this weekend.

Comments

[peartreealley.livejournal.com]

Our call volume slows down after 8pm PST (mind you, that's 11pm EST). Yet, I'm still amazed by who will call us at 1am EST to argue about their bill--or make a payment--or anything else. I mean, I work the evening shift, so I understand that means you can't call after dinner. So I do it before work, unless it's an emergency.

But yeah, whole other world, that night shift :D

And I get lots of writing done on the night shift as well, usually character/story/worldbuilding notes. I don't have enough concentration time to be able to actually craft a story and hold voice. It's probably also because I write on my PDA at work, so I don't quite get the flow I get with the keyboard on a computer. My company is really RAWR ANYTHING ON THE COMPUTER MUST BE WORK RELATED AND WE OWN IT that I don't let my writing or personal email near it.

Hee.

[vg-ford.livejournal.com]

Yup, mine too. So I write on paper that I bring in from home (no PDA yet - maybe in a year or so.) But I do enjoy making characters - all my friends are breathless to see what will come out of the dice next! Heehee.

I'm amazed at how many writers work nights. My hubby is a little unhappy, but we'll have weekends together, and the differential is nice.

[peartreealley.livejournal.com]

I work nights because I prefer to write in the morning--I have my best focus first thing in the morning. I also found, at least on the early early morning shift that by the time I got home from work I was tired and exhausted and didn't want to write. I think if still would have kept writing, but it wasn't as enjoyable.

But mostly I'm on the evening shift (second shift, swing shift) for the differential. I live alone and don't have a significant other, so I can work on my own schedule and I need the extra money.