Tuesday, November 24, 2015

When the Going Gets Tough...

Wow! It's been quite a while since I've posted!! Sorry about that, guys. I have several posts that I have written and simply have not gotten around to posting, so I will post them over the next few weeks!!

NaNoWriMo has been a fun experience, and I am very proud to say that I have won this year!! I was working on a re-write of my novel Catching the Sun and I have written a solid 52K in it this month.

You know those really rough weeks or months were absolutely NOTHING in you wants to write so much as a word? Those days where everything in you screams "DO NOT EVEN OPEN THE DOCUMENT!"? Yeah. We all do.

I've compiled a list of things I have done to avoid writing. I'm going to post them here.
1. Clean. And I mean clean like how Momma tells me to.
2. Binge-watch Lost, OUAT, Flashpoint, The Librarians, Doctor Who, and anything else I can possibly get away with.
3. Shower. Really loooooooooooooooong 3-4 hour showers/baths.
4. Read. Read. Read.
5. Plan 8 hours straight for an hour-long Bookclub meeting.
6. Homework!
7. Write a mini-series.
8. SLEEP.
9. Actually go to social functions.
10. ACTUALLY SPEAK to my family....
11. Spend HOURS studying for ACT
12. Spend HOURS in B&N
13. Spend HOURS at the library
14. You get the idea.

So, in all that....what the heck do you do to get motivated!?

First of all, you're probably asking the WRONG person.
I write. I don't write. I draw. I don't draw. I paint. I don't paint.
It goes in a circle for me.
And sometimes whatever I FEEL like I NEED to do simply doesn't come.
All I have to do is simply stay confident in the fact that one day...maybe a looooooong time from now...the urge and motivation to write that awesome novel will return. The ideas will suddenly spring forth like they did in 8th grade. It will come back.
So rather than binge-watching to avoid it, binge-watch while waiting for it.
I know! It's great.
And probably not something you hear very often.


Keep those candles lit! :D