Confession time

[pantryslut]

How many of you get significant amounts of personal writing done at work?

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[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

Me!

[redshrike.livejournal.com]

i've written more (for me) at work than anywhere else, at least in the last five or six years.

[cheekytubemouse.livejournal.com]

Me. This includes fiction, lj posts, and personal email.

No! No! Never...

[imnotandrei.livejournal.com]

...not above two or three times in a week.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

My optimum work process involves having on the order of a dozen windows of stuff open at once, and usually one of them is lj and two of them are email. I'm a lot less productive when I'm not doing either of those, so it feels a bit off to call it a "confession" when it's something form which my employers are gaining.

No fiction in work, though. It needs entirely the wrong sort of focus.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

it feels a bit off to call it a "confession" when it's something form which my employers are gaining.

Do they know and approve? Not all confessions are of guilt. (I did not grow up Catholic.)

While I'm here, I should note that I tend to keep an lj and an e-mail window open, and sometimes also a window for whatever interesting bit of online reading I have at the time. God bless the Web, for I am not allowed to read books at my desk. And yes, it helps me be a lot more efficient, too. Most of the time.

I have yet to try writing fiction at work. Sometimes I fit in a writer's group piece here or there.

[rgay.livejournal.com]

I spend a great deal of work time on personal writing. If I didn't distract myself with interesting things from time to time, I would kill my co-workers and go to jail, so really, I'm helping my employer out.

[las.livejournal.com]

Me, too, if we're not slammed with support requests. I refuse to feel even remotely guilty about it, considering my coworkers are mostly playing City of Heroes or WOW during the lulls.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

One of mine spends a lot of time shopping for shoes.

[roane.livejournal.com]

I don't currently, but I wrote whole books at my last office job.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

me.

also, the wiscon program schedule owes a lot to my last two employers.

[tgeller.livejournal.com]

Why, whatever do you mean? I would *never* do something like that.

[i-ate-my-crusts.livejournal.com]

Me!

Attack stories get written at work. They get written from the moment they attack until they let me go, regardless.

Otherwise, I try to confine it to lunchbreaks.

Nope.

[black-pearl-10.livejournal.com]

Not at all. If you're talking stories. I'm in the wrong sort of headspace at work to do it.

However, personal non-writing (mostly soccer) projects, e-mails, and LJ. Obviously, those I do all the time at work. Moreso, than at home.