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Why Being at Home Won’t Motivate You to Write More
You’d think that having all this extra time being alone and inside my own head, words would just flow out like water. But no, that has not been the case
I’m not a full-time Writer. I’m not used to working from home or working from a coffee shop or public space. Instead, I have a nine to five office job. I sit at a desk within an office building in Manhattan. However, given the current global health crisis, my normal workspace has changed drastically, along with many others, causing me to adapt to a different work environment and a different routine.
I’ve been working from home for about a week now— day one being last Thursday. And I have to admit, it hasn’t been an easy adjustment. I’ve come to the realization that working from home isn’t as much of a luxury as I thought it would be. Looking on the bright side, I figured that being at home more would at least motivate me to write more.
That has not been the case.
In the past week that I’ve been home, I envisioned myself becoming a writing machine. I have a variety of topics and ideas scattered across my gmail inbox, saved in the notes app on my phone, and even here on Medium — all of them just waiting for me to build upon. However…
