Blah, I say. Blah!
May. 21st, 2009 04:45 pmBeen feeling rather blah this whole week, and not even lovely weather and backyard chipmunk sightings seem able to cure it. It looks like I'm going to have to write off any hope of productivity and hand this round to the slug. I've kept up with the exercise and the piano practicing, but I haven't done any reading all week, and writing-wise I've only managed a sentence or two. I can't even use the excuse that I've been overly busy. I've just found it hard to get my brain to focus, let alone produce something useful. Doesn't help that I haven't been able to sleep for crap lately.
Also not helping is the fact that May seems to be turning into a month-long reject-a-thon. Since the beginning of the month, I haven't made it more than 3 days without another rejection arriving in my inbox. I even had an oh-so-lovely streak of 5 days in a row going on there. Hard to stay motivated in the face of that much morale bruising.
As for that sentence or two I've managed to write this week: I don't know why it's taken me so long to realize this, but one of the things I've finally learned about myself as a writer is that I really suck at starting new scenes. I'll spend forever agonizing over those first few sentences. Sure, I could skip the opening and continue with the rest of the scene, but that, I have learned, only delays the head-meets-desk process. Eventually, I'm going to have to write that opening, and since it's going to be just as painful later as it is now, I might as well be done with it.
Also not helping is the fact that May seems to be turning into a month-long reject-a-thon. Since the beginning of the month, I haven't made it more than 3 days without another rejection arriving in my inbox. I even had an oh-so-lovely streak of 5 days in a row going on there. Hard to stay motivated in the face of that much morale bruising.
As for that sentence or two I've managed to write this week: I don't know why it's taken me so long to realize this, but one of the things I've finally learned about myself as a writer is that I really suck at starting new scenes. I'll spend forever agonizing over those first few sentences. Sure, I could skip the opening and continue with the rest of the scene, but that, I have learned, only delays the head-meets-desk process. Eventually, I'm going to have to write that opening, and since it's going to be just as painful later as it is now, I might as well be done with it.