It’s been a little crazy ’round here.
October 11th, 2009
And that’s putting it lightly. The work week was stressful and rather long, involving a 12-hour day and a 9.5-hour day among other days of normal length, and the rest of my time was spent out of the house – J’s kids got over the swine flu fairly quickly, thanks to the awesomeness of their mama, so I’ve been hanging out with them and their oh-my-gods-I’m-not-sick-anymore-HOORAY gleeful energy.
Needless to say, I fell behind on my blog posts. (I confess, I’m being moderately sinful and back-dating some posts to fill the gaps. Given the size of my readership at the moment, it’s not too annoying… Right, guys? Right? Um, guys…)
I don’t know about you, but when I fall behind, the build-up of inertia makes it hard to get going again. I had a lot of time yesterday to write, but I didn’t do more than login to my WordPress admin panel and stare at my drafts blankly. I couldn’t get any mojo up, couldn’t think of what I wanted to say that would be worth reading. Today was shaping up in much the same boggy manner.
So, I went back and reread old writing posts and recent stories.
I smiled. I laughed. I nitpicked my sentence construction, word choice, and the flow of the paragraphs. I remembered the elation of writing stories I love with characters I love in places I love – and the feeling of accomplishment when I finished a section or a whole story.
Then I came back here, clicked on “Add New Post,” and started typing.
Now, granted, I still have two posts to make up. But I have a writing voice in me again, and ideas for topics, and at least two more hours before I have to wake J up to venture out into the wild desert yonder. I’m feelin’ the muse, and I’m happy.
How do you get back in the saddle again after stabling your creativity for too long?
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it tends to go like this:
i do something creative. i lose steam. i let it go, and get pretty whatever about creative stuff.
the universe throws bricks at me until i do something creative again.
wash, rinse, repeat as necessary.
When you rinse and repeat, do you always start new things, or do you pick up on old projects and continue them? (Like that story you had on your journal? You really should do more with that…
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Sometimes I can’t lift a finger, sometimes I can’t sit still. When I lose my mojo and inertia overtakes me, I usually just let it. Or go for a walk or empty the dishwasher. Anything to keep putting one foot in front of the other and let it pass.
I get extremely irritated that my approach is so passive, but some days it’s all I can do. So in a way I do all that I can.
Doing all you can do is your best effort, and no one in the world can expect more from you than that!