Well, it’s not actually beginning AGAIN but continuing to begin.
Even though I’ve had two and half weeks to fully focus on personal projects, I’ll be honest, I’ve pissed the time away. But, maybe it’s okay?
Maybe taking your foot off the creative gas pedal gives you time to allow ideas to percolate. Sometimes an unexpected piece of music, song, news sound bite, film or tv show you’ve never seen before, presents you with a missing piece of something that you didn’t realize snagged your mind.
I’m not sure what obfuscated my thoughts this time. It might have been the holiday season, thinking of friends and family, making plans for the coming year, and being blindsided by flooded cupboard that contributed to my block.
Having said that, the most likely culprit was the nagging thought that kept circling which had to do with my current manuscript. I keep wondering if it’s worth finishing. I ‘finished’ this story years ago but have overhauled it about four times since then. This is my latest rendition and I’m aiming for a March deadline to submit it to an online publisher BUT as I work through it, I just wonder if it’s worth re-writing at all? Or if I should just let it rest in its latest form, and start something fresh?
If you feel like you’re wasting time with a creative endeavor, it makes it very easy to get distracted! It seems that the first thing I need to do is commit to the idea that this is worth re-telling right, and keep trucking!
For anyone else feeling stuck—We’re all counting on you. Keep going!!
