I have no idea what's going on with me, but it's been super hard to find inspiration and motivation. I haven't written in almost a week, which is just nuts! I've worked on my query, so I guess that counts, but...not really.
I plugged away at my MS for four months, and I finished it about...wow, over three weeks ago! I was so hyped up about my edits, but then something happened. I don't know what it was. Aliens. Pheromones. Radioactive Spiders. Who knows, but what I do know is I need to get my butt in gear but I have no idea how.
I thought reading would help, but no. Six books later (The Girl of Fire and Thorns, Paranormalcy, Dualed, Graceling, The Goddess Test, and The Iron King) and I still haven't found that push I was searching for.
Should I battle through it and write anyway? Should I wait for it to pass? I have 82,000 words just waiting to be sliced and diced, added to, and made beautiful, but absolutely no motivation. Even knowing Miss Snark's First Victim's Bakers Dozen contest is coming up is not even enough to get my butt in the chair.
I promised myself I'd start in on it after Labor Day, but that day has come and gone and then some, and the crickets are still chirping. I blame it on lack of sleep, my two year old, house work, a crappy weekend job, and whatever else I can think of.
But it's all me.
I'm a month away from my slicing and dicing, I'm going to get it printed out and go line by line. I read that doing it on a computer would be counter productive as you can get sidetracked so easily. Where as with it being printed out and bound you can mark it up and it forces you to continue wherever there is no red ink.
ReplyDeleteYou are not alone if that gives you any solace.
Cheers Hank
Thanks Hank, it does make me feel a teensy bit better. That's a really good idea about printing it out, I'm willing to try anything right about now.
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