Office Gossip when You’re the Only One in the Office
Working from home is a wonderful thing. Pajamas. Long walks when I want them. Setting my own schedule. No office gossip.
{screeching halt here} No office gossip?
I have first hand experience that adult workers are 567% less inspired and 352% less efficient without at least one weekly injection of office gossip.
So how do we work-from-home types get our daily requirements of office gossip? First I discovered Twitter. I love it! A whole world having random thoughts and then sharing them with anyone who happens to be cruising by our Twitter sites at the time. Saturday Night Live’s Jack Handy is looking down on all of us with a great big smile right now. (Follow me on Twitter– www.twitter.com/conniecox )
And then there’s Facebook. I just became part of the Facebook family a few weeks ago and feel like I’ve walked into a party thrown just for me. Love, love, love reading about the little things that are so significant in everyone else’s day. And the comments…..they register very high on the office gossip scale. (I’m at www.facebook.com/connie.cox –note the dot–if you want to be my friend)
But there’s no substitution for the face-to-face meeting. Every Thursday, my critique group meets over lunch and discusses writing. It’s a subject we’re all passionate about so the conversation is always enthusiastic. We hash out character arcs and plot points and discuss the merits of being a plotter versus a pantser (seat-of-your-pants writer). And we talk about industry news–the office gossip part. I’m not alone on this one.
Yesterday, I was greatly inspired hearing that a debut author just sold her first three books for a nice 6 figures. And books 2 and 3 aren’t even written yet. Made me want to rush home and put fingers to keyboard before I even finished my dessert.
Now to make my case to my boss about project priorities—wait! I am my boss!
So guess which project I’ll be focusing on today? That’s right. I’ll be jumping back into writing a new book. After yesterday’s gossip session, I am now officially rested enough after the last book project and anxious to try for that golden ring again.
The book starts this morning.
Life is good!
