I keep leaping from project to project after a few minutes. Need to focus at some point, but the house has a lot of family. I think I’m just waiting until 7:30 when I do my nightly round of Facebook promo posts. Truthfully, I don’t have the urge to do much and I think it’s because I feel like I can’t hunker down until things settle. Yet, there’s nothing else to do beside wait for the inevitable.
I don’t even know why I’m here saying this. Attention? Procrastination? Feeling like I finished something today? I’m leaning toward doing the blurbs for the 4th book, which won’t be out until February if things go well. Was hoping to do more than 3 books out a year, but that’s the pace for now. Probably best that I’m at this pace since it means I can write ahead in the series by 1-2 books. Maybe I’ll do the Amazon blurb while the story is fresh in my head.
Just rambling at this point. WordPress has been oddly quiet the last few weeks. At least over here. Eh, I’ve been out of it anyway.
Legends of Windemere 
I am so with you on not being able to even open a work in progress when there’s the possibility of being interrupted. What’s the point, right? It only leads to frustration. This is when I go through my reader and comment. Comments are, in essence, cheap when you think of them in terms of length, and don’t take a lot of concentration.
As far as WordPress being quiet, I really find you get out of it what you put into it. When I stop reading/liking/commenting other people’s posts and they stop reading mine. 😛 Just a personal observation.
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I’ll keep that in mind.
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Charles, I am assuming that you wrote when you were younger, still living with your parents, but whatever–then you probably wrote as a form of private world, a vehicle, a route of escape from the outside world. It is probably why you love to write. Maybe it is time to rediscover that feeling. Your life as you have disclosed is very busy and more than that overcrowded with other people. Perhaps you may need to find that placve again that allowed you to tune it all out, even for smnall amounts of time. Look at writing text, blurbs for books and such as all part of that world to escape to as opposed to it being more of a ‘have to do this’ like the rest of the encumbrances in your life. Embrace what you are and define yourself instead of being defined by circumstances. You may not be able to chnage circumstances but you can change how you react to them. >KB
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Actually, I had my own room when I was younger and a lot of privacy. So writing wasn’t so much an escape from the outside world, but an exciting hobby that I planned on making into a career. I lack that privacy most days and the current circumstances are going to change any day now. This isn’t an entirely good thing if you look back to my last non-reblog post.
Truthfully, I never look at writing as something I have to do. I always want to do it. Lock me in a room with mountains of paper, pens, a laptop, and access to Pandora. I’ll be happier than Scrooge McDuck in his Money Bin. Seriously, one time I was locked in a room for a day as a prank and it backfired because the pranksters forgot to take my writing stuff away.
My issue now is that I don’t know where to go and I’m finding I can’t push myself in any direction. Like someone cemented my shoes to the middle of a crossroads. Again, the current situation is temporary and it’s probably the anxiety of waiting for the conclusion that is driving me nuts.
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Maybe you need to sstep out of the glued shoes and go barefoot. Just a thought. You sound like you have it under control. Your post didn’t sound so positive. I just thought I’d stick my nose in and see what’s up. Be well then. >KB
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It’s stemming from stress and a tad of family-wide depression. To sum up:
102-year-old grandmother had a severe stroke on Wednesday and has been in a hospice since. We’re waiting for the end and it’s put all of us into a mental freeze. It’s hard to pick a project or do anything beyond going through the motions when you’re waiting for that phone call.
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Understand. >KB
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I think keeping a pace where your writing stays ahead is a good idea. If that puts less pressure on some things, like editing, even better. I sometimes switch back and forth between projects, and that’s when there isn’t any outside reason for it. Hang in there; may there be better times not too far ahead.
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Thanks. I think I’m going to adopt the system of ‘write a book, edit the previous book, write the next book, etc.’ This gives me the break and some sight into the future, so I can add clearer foreshadowing. Continue using the weekend for later projects and everything will run smoothly.
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