Welcome to Marketing for Romance Authors 52 week blog hop challenge.  Each week, a lovely group of romance authors blog on a common theme. Today we discuss our greatest weakness.  Visit them all here.

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.

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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?

12 Replies to “Where is that Index Card? #MFRWauthor #amwriting”

    • 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.

    • 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. 🙁

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