I love being “in the zone.” Totally concentrated on what I’m doing. Especially when I’m writing. People talk to me and I know somewhere on the edge of consciousness they’re asking me a question. Once, twice, and then maybe the third time they ask, I’ll answer with a completely inappropriate word.
Son: Have you fed the dog?
Me: Cupboard.
Son: Mom?
Me: Uh … the food’s in the cupboard.
Son: I know where it is. Has he eaten yet?
Me: Okay, thanks.
That sort of thing. And they think I’m zoned out, but I’m zoned in, man. Like, totally zoned IN. (Sorry, Cheech and Chong were on Stephen Colbert last week and I seem to be channeling Tommy Chong.) It’s all a matter of perspective. I’m guessing nobody would want to be in my zone with me anyhow. At least not farther into my zone than the filtered version that my writing offers. This zone’s deep and scary, man. Deep and scary.
May 4, 2018 at 1:10 pm
I’m just like that when I’m reading. N the Zone! Better than out here some days 😂
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May 4, 2018 at 1:42 pm
How so true. ❤
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May 1, 2018 at 2:05 am
I love that zone! With ADD/ADHD you’re either there or off the wall. I super attend to the neglect of the whole world or follow shiny chickens. One gets things done. One messes things up.
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May 1, 2018 at 3:04 pm
Extremes are confusing!! ❤
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April 30, 2018 at 5:29 pm
Been there, done that! ♥
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May 1, 2018 at 3:05 pm
Yep! Yep, yep, yep … ❤
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April 30, 2018 at 12:36 pm
Congratulations on your unofficial A/Z! Ahh, the zone…love the zone. 🙂
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May 1, 2018 at 3:05 pm
What A to Z? I have no idea what you’re talking about. 😉
Thanks. 🙂 Gotta love the zone.
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April 30, 2018 at 12:32 pm
Congrats on completing your underground challenge. I experienced that zone vs chatter this morning as my husband came into the room and tried to get a conversation going while I was writing.
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May 1, 2018 at 3:06 pm
Thanks! Who won?
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April 30, 2018 at 11:12 am
I hate it when people try to take me out of the zone. AND then they get mad when I don’t respond as they wish. Jeeze, can’t they see I’m in the zone? Sorry we missed you this year, maybe next year?
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May 1, 2018 at 3:07 pm
Yeah, I hope to do the challenge next year. 😀
Some people really don’t understand the zone.
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April 30, 2018 at 10:46 am
I love the zone. Hate to leave the zone. The zone is my refuge. I like to crawl into it and pull it closed after me. Then I finish the book, and I have to make a NEW ONE.
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May 1, 2018 at 3:07 pm
The zone is neverending. Mostly because it’s so addictive!!
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May 2, 2018 at 8:32 am
That’s why I love Story A Day May. I set me alarm for 6 and get up and knock out a story. When I start the day in the zone, the whole day is just that much better.
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May 2, 2018 at 9:17 am
I wish I had your energy … or at least the ability to go to bed before midnight. 😛 (Kid issues.)
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May 2, 2018 at 10:31 am
I only do this during May. And, if I do NaNo, in November.
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May 2, 2018 at 10:44 am
Sounds like a challenge. 😉
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April 30, 2018 at 10:08 am
Me too. Me too. In the zone is total productivity. I live to be in the zone.
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April 30, 2018 at 10:02 am
You seem to have so much fun with your son.
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May 1, 2018 at 3:08 pm
We’re a mostly comical household. 🙂
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April 30, 2018 at 7:20 am
Deep and scary to outsiders. Nice job on the thing you weren’t doing this past month.
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May 1, 2018 at 3:09 pm
Haha! Thanks, Dan. Maybe I’ll not do it again next year. 😉
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