Why is this so hard? I think getting back into the groove is challenging because I took so much time off. I finished Homecoming in late September, and I let myself take a true vacation from real writing. There was a new baby to take care of, as well as a new job, and I hadn't ever taken more than a month or so away from writing for real. I assuaged my guilty conscious by promising I'd write a short story a week for a later anthology, which I never did.
Maybe part of it is challenging because of what I'm trying to do. I have a pair of ideas for my next work, and I plan to post the first chapter of each on this site so that you guys can let me know which one you'd prefer I work on. However, in my ambition, I might've paralyzed myself since I just can't get going. Sure, I've written about 1,000 words to The Onyx Cluster, but I still have about 2,500 words to go if I want a coherent first chapter, and I haven't even started the other book about Satan winning the Apocalypse.
I just need to block out a period of time and get to it. An hour a day and I could have these chapters done in a week. That way, I could give them to you for deliberation. It just feels...so...exhausting.
Maybe part of it is challenging because of what I'm trying to do. I have a pair of ideas for my next work, and I plan to post the first chapter of each on this site so that you guys can let me know which one you'd prefer I work on. However, in my ambition, I might've paralyzed myself since I just can't get going. Sure, I've written about 1,000 words to The Onyx Cluster, but I still have about 2,500 words to go if I want a coherent first chapter, and I haven't even started the other book about Satan winning the Apocalypse.
I just need to block out a period of time and get to it. An hour a day and I could have these chapters done in a week. That way, I could give them to you for deliberation. It just feels...so...exhausting.
(Time's a-wastin')
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