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To be honest, I don’t have any great inspiration to share today and my inspiration has been limited for a few weeks, which is why you haven’t heard from me much lately. I think I know the reason: burn out. I’m tired. My early morning writing sessions are wonderful, and I hate not having them, but I don’t really want to go bed at 9 and when I go for a few weeks with constant 5am to 6am wake up times, it starts to take a toll after awhile.
I think the other reason I’m feeling burned out is because I’ve been trying to keep up with two projects. With everything to do with my day-job taking up most of my brain, the rest is getting squeezed a bit too much with the reworking of my first novel and the first draft of my second. I’ve been pleased with my progress, but I’m going to take a break this week. I’m going to cut back to just one project again.
This weekend I folded chapter 22 of my first novel into chapter 23, which proved challenging I think mostly because my brain was too tired to think much so I moved paragraphs around probably fifteen times to get the right flow. Then this morning I reworked chapters 24 and 25, which didn’t need much work, although I did find a much better chapter break.
I’ve got seven chapters left in my first novel to revise, so I’m going to stick with them until they’re done then go back to the new novel. My brain needs a rest from all this multi-tasking.
Oh, there’s also this picture book I’ve been revising in my critique group and the next meeting is a week from today. I guess I’m down to two projects.
What are you working on?
Write On!
1. Go for a run.
2. Rent a movie.
3. Build a card tower.
4. Write stuff down backwards and then read it in a mirror.
5. Buy a trampoline.
6. Jump on it.
7. Crank up some tunes.
8. Try to lick your elbow.
9. Read a good book.
10. Clean up your room.
11. Start a blog.
12. Watch people’s fails on YouTube,
13. Prank call a friend.
14. Find a wall and see how high you can get your hand by jumping.
15. Wet your hair and style it.
16. Start a new instrument.
17. Find a job.
18. Put iodine on any open cuts. Being bored will seem pretty good after this.
19. Go for a walk and comment on people to your self.
20. Learn how to cook something tasty.
21. Write a story.
22. Take a hot shower.
23. See how far you can get a paper airplane to fly.
24. Wikipedia Race (google it).
25. Think of something else to do when bored and comment it for others to read.
1. Go for a run.
2. Rent a movie.
3. Build a card tower.
4. Write stuff down backwards and then read it in a mirror.
5. Buy a trampoline.
6. Jump on it.
7. Crank up some tunes.
8. Try to lick your elbow.
9. Read a good book.
10. Clean up your room.
11. Start a blog.
12. Watch people’s fails on YouTube,
13. Prank call a friend.
14. Find a wall and see how high you can get your hand by jumping.
15. Wet your hair and style it.
16. Start a new instrument.
17. Find a job.
18. Put iodine on any open cuts. Being bored will seem pretty good after this.
19. Go for a walk and comment on people to your self.
20. Learn how to cook something tasty.
21. Write a story.
22. Take a hot shower.
23. See how far you can get a paper airplane to fly.
24. Wikipedia Race (google it).
25. Think of something else to do when bored and comment it for others to read.
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Holy toledo things have been busy lately!
Lots of work and lots of family stuff has made it a wee bit difficult to get around to posting on the ol' illustration blog. Add all of that to the fact that I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping and you've got a recipe for disaster more annoying than a weekend long marathon of Ben Affleck movies.
Anyway, hopefully I'm entering a bit of a downspell and hopefully that'll mean throwing something up on here more often.
Hopefully.
I don't like making promises, so we'll just stick with hopefully.
Anyway, my wife has been snapping some pictures of me early in the morning and we think that we've discovered the reason I'm not getting any sleep.
The stupid cats seem to think my head is their bed.
(Don't give me any guff on the black and white stripped quilt. I've had it since I was a kid, it's ugly as sin, it needs to be thrown away, I've heard it all from my wife more than once. I'll tell you the same thing I tell her...it's not going anywhere. That's right, I'm a thirty year old Linus. Deal with it.)
Steve~
I was able to get a little work done on the above monster piece over the last couple days, though it required me to get little to no sleep in order to do it.
Sleep is a luxury anyway, right?
Right?
Or, wait, no...I'm thinking of an expensive car.
Silly me.
Steve~
I’ve been enjoying the Blatant Berry Blog. John Berry’s most recent post Personal Politics & The ALA is a short discussion of his view on why he thinks it’s okay for a membership organization to occasionally weigh in on political matters that don’t always seem directly relevant to the general topic of the organization. I am also a person who “mixes up” the personal and political and, like Berry, agree that the line that other people see clearly has not always seemed so clear to me.
Update: Rory has rewritten his earlier post which he took down about dealing with political issues while being on ALA Council. Many of his observations mirror my own.
ala, johnberry, politics
Working on getting through my daily, sometimes more than daily blogging along with all of the other
business tasks to be tended to. Not complaining, it keeps me on my toes.
Great job, SL. That’s inspiration for me.
I feel for you. I think it’s something in the air, or in the time of year. Something…
I have hit a wall lately, so uninspired, so blah — I hate it. Not so unusual for anyone, yet we writers seem to be hit hardest.
Drag yourself through it.
Yeah, it’s tough on us writers when it happens, Keidalgrim, but the trick is to not allow it to last long. Thanks for your comment
I’m at that wall too, I think. I’ve just started my umpteenth rewrite plan. Really hoping this one will hold up.
We can do it!
Absolutely, we can! Thanks, Casey.
I actually think that rewriting is so much harder than writing the first draft, but I’ll post about that in a few days. My thoughts are brewing…