Last week, Dean Wesley Smith wrote an excellent blog post, titled Protecting Choice, where he explored the reasons behind not writing--the good reasons, not the "oh I just don't feel like it" reason. It's well worth reading it, as well as pretty much everything else he writes.
I am currently at the 35,000 word mark in the second novel in the Shadowkill trilogy. When I've looked at the past few weeks on my daily word count spreadsheet, I noticed a number of days lately where I wrote nothing.
Yes, you read that correctly. Nothing.
Last week, my son had a medical emergency, which required me to spend a night in the hospital with him while the doctors figured out what was wrong with him. He has type one diabetes, but it appeared not to be related to it.
A few weeks before that, I had vehicle problems--both of my vehicles were down, oddly enough with almost the same problem.
A few years ago, if you recall, I had my own personal medical emergency. I am taking medication, but one of the side effects are . . . well, some I won't mention, for reasons I won't make clear here, but one of the main side effects are mood swings. Meaning, bad ones. Quick to anger, and stuff like that. I recognize when my stress goes through the roof and feel my anger building up, so I work hard at not snapping at my family. Some times I succeed. Other times, I hate to say, I do not.
Life happens to us all. Find ways to get yourself through it. Find remedies, be it exercise, relaxation, hobbies.
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