You are in luck, my dear friend. I’m reading a great book on romanticism, and a post on the subject is coming up soon.
As a reader, I’m most heavily into novels. Short stories aren’t easy for me because I usually take a while to get into a text, and with a short story collection, I have to go through this process many times in a row, and it’s tiresome.
Reading plays is an art of itself. Plays are written for performance, not reading, so you have to pay a lot of attention to everything or you won’t get it. I have published a total of one article about a play and nothing at all about short stories. Otherwise, it’s all novels.
I usually do bullet journaling these days. My daughter and I decorate our journals as a favorite shared ritual. It’s like a form of meditation, very relaxing.
But when I’m in a midst of a very busy stretch, like right now, I do revert to productivity planners. This is the one I’m using right now:
It covers 3 months, which is perfect for a short burst of productivity. Right now, I’m teaching more than usual, substituting the lab director who’s on sabbatical, putting in paperwork for a new ASL Minor, writing a book, making endless changes to the Ukrainian book, plus I have 3 articles that were returned with (thankfully, not extensive) changes, writing a new article, and writing a conference talk. This is heavy even by my standards, so meticulous planning is unavoidable. Thanks to my productivity planner, I don’t work in the evenings or on weekends. I also take a day off every couple of weeks just to hang out and do nothing. If you don’t keep work at bay, it will seep over your entire life, and that’s not good.
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