Today was a bit more of a struggle than I’d anticipated. I’m honestly not sure where that came from…probably a mixture of several factors.
The apartment duties continue to be taxing, even with the Ho (truly) being a rock star and helping out. There’s just a lot happening with the building. I’m also not used to sitting down and working on writing all day…I’m used to a couple hours at a time. Mostly, though, I’m feeling rather run down. I felt it towards the end with my Icarus script, I felt it last weekend going to the WGA Festival thingy…I’ve been feeling it quite a bit lately.
I may need to take, like, some real time off to just watch some stuff, listen to some stuff, and go outside and see and do stuff. Take some hikes. Play some golf. See if I can wrangle someone to play some tennis with. I’ve definitely been feeling that urge lately, to move my body around.
In any event, today was NOT a bust. I’m almost half way through the novel. I’d been hoping to be two-thirds of the way through, and to be honest, I could have got there tonight…but I was getting grumpy, lazy, and just not engaging with what I was doing. Of course…there’s a part of me that wonders if it’s because of the actual writing…but I don’t think so. It’s like I could look down at the page I was reading and objectively see from a distance that there were stakes, conflict, and adventure happening…but I couldn’t FEEL any of it. It just wasn’t landing because *I* wasn’t landing. And so I stopped. It’s not going to help my novel if I’m reading it in that type of mindset. So, I stopped.
Tomorrow was supposed to be the day to finish it, but I’m taking a day break. I know I’m not supposed to do that, according to the procedure I’m following for tackling rewrites…but to be honest, I’m truthfully not worried about it. This reading is going to happen by this weekend at the latest, which puts me on track then to do the outline and strategy sessionings next week. And THAT means I’m all set up for rewrites starting first-thing Q2 of 2016.
Look, guys…this has already been the most productive first quarter of any year I can remember in a very, very, VERY long time. I honestly just think I’m feeling burned out. As another writer I follow would say, “the reserves are depleted.” Which literally just means it’s time to take a break and rest the mind. Then, come back, and get to it.
It’s time for sleeps. Catch you on the flip 😉