For those that may have been concerned, I am feeling much better now. I guess my hormones decided to go back into hiding for now, and I feel human again. No more despondency and pitifulness. Phew. Armed with a cup of coffee on a Friday morning and heading into a three day weekend, it’s hard to see how I couldn’t be feeling better though. We’ll see how I am on Tuesday morning.
I am trying to get myself back into writing mode again. Along with that pitiful mood came a case of writer’s block. Last weekend, I was by myself, as Drew was off for a guy’s weekend/poker game where he won lots of money. I thought that maybe I could snuggle into my wonderful couch and get some writing done, but sadly, no inspiration struck. I know I often have to push through, but it seemed no amount of pushing got me anywhere last weekend. It seemed all I wanted to do was scrapbook and watch movies. I did end up being pretty productive, and got several pages knocked out in my wedding scrapbook.
My goal is to get myself up early again and try to spend about thirty minutes to an hour doing quality writing. By quality, I don’t necessarily mean good, but a good effort. My “memoir” has made some progress, and I’m hoping to keep the momentum going. I shared it with Drew while we were holed away in our mountain retreat, and I was expecting brutal honest feedback (we expect nothing less from each other). All he said was that I was off to a really good start and needed to keep going. He was impressed at the amount of writing I had done and encouraged me to continue writing the memories I had. I know he will offer more brutal editing advice when I get to the editing stage, but he knows I’m still on the get it onto paper mode. So I will continue to write. Or at least try to.
I also was hoping to get some “quality” blogs up over the weekend. My first guest post on Clothe Your Neighbor As Yourself should be up on Monday, and I think there will be a link to this blog from that blog. I might have some increased traffic, and I was thinking I should have something of substance blogged. If not, oh well. This is all me, whether they like it or not.
I’m glad to see that you are able to “keep on keeping on” even when the doldrums hit (or is it that we hit the doldrums?).
RE increased traffic: Just wanted to make sure you know that in order to comment I had to create a wordpress account (and I otherwise wouldn’t have created one). I didn’t need that to see your blog, but did need it to comment.
I hate hormones. At least one day a month I feel like total crap. I think your tag “Being a woman ain’t always so great” says it all!