There’s this piece of advice that is constantly given to aspiring writers, that goes something like “Make yourself write every day”. Or “Just keep writing” they say, and that there’s no such thing as a writer’s block or needing to be in a creative mood to write.
Well, I beg to differ.
For a while there, I seriously lost my mojo. I’ve been dragging, cranky and sleepy. Basically just burned out, and needed a mental break from everything. My daily word count has been seriously slacking. I took some time off from my side gigs and relaxed with my family, had a date night with the husband, caught up on some much needed housework and personal tasks that needed attending. Basically, I allowed myself to rejuvinate for a bit.
But after DAYS of 0 words written or too few words written to bother to track, I finally got my groove back yesterday. And with yesterday being a work holiday, I managed to get almost 5,000 words written yesterday. Not just 5,000 crappy words either like the few sad ones that I did force myself to squeeze out earlier this week while I was in my slump, but good stuff! Well as good as an initial rough draft can get, anyways. The point is, I made a note to myself to stop crying in front of a blank screen. I’m more productive if I actually give myself a chance to relax every once in a while and then get back to work.
So it’s 3:40 am, and I’m finally going to call it a night. A long, tiring night, but a good one.
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