I’m recovering from a few false starts this year, the first of which began in November of last year. I’m trying to settle into writing again, regularly, after a long stretch of not writing much at all.
I still don’t know with absolute certainty what caused that, although I have several theories. I worry that it’ll happen again, but since I can’t be sure of the cause, there’s not a lot of point to that worry. It happened, and now it’s time to move on. That’s the way of life more often than not anyway.
Despite the false starts, I’ve continued to improve. But we all know the saying, two steps forward and one step back, so I’m not surprised by the path I’m on.
I’ve made a few changes. I decided to ditch writing every day in favor of writing every weekday.
I don’t like schedules, but I realized I really need some regular downtime.
If I was facing burnout, and that’s just as possible as my other theories, I need to guard against future burnout. Since most people I know and interact with have weekends off, I chose to have weekends off, too. I need to visit family more often, spend more time with friends, and that’s a good time to do it.
So far, I have loved it. To a degree far greater than I expected. So I’ll be keeping that going forward.
But yes, I have had a little more trouble getting back into routine writing, but I’m working on it.
This is my accountability post to say that although I’m working on it, I’m still a ways off from true success and I need to keep working on it.
My intention is to be a prolific writer. Prolific writers keep writing. :)