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I have one. As organized as I can be, I am a clutterer. Books piled up in corners. Stacks of papers lay haphazardly all over the table and my desk and any remaining shelf space I can crunch a paper ball into. Mini mountain ranges of 8 year old bills, photos and flyers grow in every corner of my room. Towels and sheets fall on my head when I open the linen closet. The kitchen counters are covered with every kitchen doodad I used once then left there.
So when I have to find something I need like an index card I use to take notes with, I may have put an entire day aside to go through all the piles. Using deep breaking and yoga breaks to keep the cursing under control.
My only saving grace. When I finish a project, to move forward, I have to start with a clean slate. At that point, I clean up and reacquaint myself with my floors and table tops. And for a week or so, its clean and organized and I promise it will stay that way.
But it never does.
How about you? Clutter or clean?
I’m definitely a clutterer! My muse works better in messy surroundings, at least that’s my story.
I just figure I have to make a choice–writing, spending time with family, reading a book always top cleaning and organizing with the little spare time I have. I’ll even market rather than organize.
It’s not you that leave clutters. Its the gremlins. I’ve straightened up my office so everything was in its place nad not a stray paper in site. Walked out, turned around walked in and every flat surface was piled with projects in process, research books, and four rows of todo folders. And I swear, I had everything in the file cabinets or stacked on the shelves. The gremlins did it. That’s my story and I”m sticking to it. 🙂
Cool. That explains why it takes only moments after I do actually get around to cleaning up that its cluttered all over again.
I’m a clutter-er. My desk sounds much like yours. Papers piled around. I write on scraps and then misplace them. A few months I did that. I had to work out a timeline issue with my story, wrote it all out and lost the paper. 🙁 yes, it was bad. Now I try to keep all notes contained to some electronic form, or a designated notebook.
A kindred spirit. I’ve lost things too I wish I hadn’t so I use more excel files. But I still love my index cards.
I can’t deal with a great deal of clutter—not on my desk, and not on my desktop. I distract too easily.
I wish I could keep my space neat. Thanks for dropping by.
Clutterer here. Regardless of the condition of your desk, I’m willing to be you can keep your story threads straight.
Yes, and I can organize events and projects and plan. But I can’t keep a clutter free office or house. 🙂 Funny how that works.
My desk/office/house looks exactly like yours for exactly the same reasons. I tell myself I’ll put it all away as soon as I finish “this book”. Then, I start another book… Someday, I’ll clean it all up, meanwhile, I shift a lot of piles around as I look for something I know is in there somewhere. Thank heavens for efiles!
LOL. I also “clean” by moving piles around rearranging them. And yes, efiles save my writing and organizing. But those have to be organized too. 🙁