Buckling Down

While I’ve been semi-good at semi-regularly posting blogs. I have let the manuscript get away from me. Ten pages in two weeks is hardly an accomplishment. Granted I know that research is part of the process, but I am my own worst enemy when it comes to pushing forward. Call it block if you will, I just call it avoidance at present. There is nothing physically or mentally keeping me from clacking the keys (as evident from the blog post).

The local fire has be a bit preoccupied today. I am in no danger of having to evacuate, but friends’ have had to. I left the house yesterday to head to the shelter to foster a pup or eighty until they can get back to their normal, and the car died on my road.

I got it started again, but didn’t feel comfortable driving it and having it not start with a few unknown puppers in the vehicle with me.

So I got the truck back up the hill and decided that imbibing a few hard seltzers was a good consolation prize.

However, please note in that equation- I did not go back to writing.

I do need to buckle down and get clacking.

How do you all cope with avoidance?

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Author: Marina Skynnar

I love writing even with writers' block, lack of time, lack of focus, lack of motivation. After reading that previous sentence, why would I even try to scribe. Seriously, I love the craft, the way the characters come to life in my brain. They give me direction and let me know when I'm mucking up the story.

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  1. Ha. I’m the king of avoidance and procrastination. What I do to make things fun is to see how bad I can do something. Adjectives, infodumps, the likes. Then I get into this flow and before I know it, I’m writing again. Wishing you all the best with your own inertia!

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