But I want this. I do. I want to finish the books I’ve
started as well as the ones still in my head.
I’m taking advantage of the extra time afforded by the summer
break from school (no more God-awful early mornings and endless evenings of
homework, at least for the next 10 weeks) to get back my writing mojo. It’s not
easy. The words are stiff, the characters blather, and I can’t see where it’s
going. But I’m pushing through, planning out writing sessions during my commute
so when I get to the computer I know exactly what I’ll work on. Kind of a brute
force approach, and progress is slow. But it’s there.
I recently started playing the piano again after a 25-year
hiatus (amazing how time flies!) and the experience is very similar. At first,
stiff fingers, poor pacing, and a complete absence of anything even close to resembling
musicality. But the more I play, the easier it becomes and the better it
sounds. I have very high hopes that my writing will follow suit.
I have four tween/teen novels underway, one racy adult
story, two cookbooks, and a notebook full of story ideas. So no shortage of
options and no excuses for writers’ block. I’m planning an August writing trip
while my kids are away to complete a first draft of one of the kids’ books and
to get a good start on cookbook #3.
Teaching zapped my writing mojo and then I was always too tired to get it back in the summer because that was the only time for an endless list of other chores. It's hard to find the right balance that much is sure, and I hope you get your mojo back.
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