Working From Home - Good or a bad thing?

by Mark J Braybrook
13th May 2021

Hi All

Has anyone else found that since working from home their writing output has increased or decreased. Now I have a home office I've found I'm writing more regularly during the evenings after logging off from work.

Would be interested to hear your views.

Thanks

Mark

 

 

 

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Working from home is not good for me and I am glad I am not working from home anymore now. By the way, can anyone over here help me in searching for the reviews online for https://writinguniverse.com/free-essay-examples/science/ website because I want to help my son in writing an essay assignment and on that website he can read essay examples for free.

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I wrote a lot in furlough. I think about the same as Jonathan, but then I went back to work and haven't been furloughed again, so I've been a lot less productive.

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25/05/2021

I honestly don't know what's encouraged me to write for an hour after the working day. I think it's definitely to do with 'if I can do 7 hours of regular work during the day, surely I can do an hour of something I would love to do as a full-time job. Thanks Victoria.

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25/05/2021

Hi Jonathan, wow 60k during furlough is impressive. Surely that's got to be a positive during those painful lockdown days. Will you be doing something with the 60k of words?

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20/05/2021

40k of that was to finish the 1st draft of my WIP. I'd usually start editing after that, but wrote 20k of another story instead because blocks of 'spare' time are rare for me. The problem now is getting down to the hard part :)

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22/05/2021

I've only managed 18k during lockdown and that seemed hard enough!

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