This is not a blog. This is a hiatus with occasional blog entries. Am I right?
Sigh…
It feels like I’m always starting my entries with an apology, either in print or in my head. I’m sorry for missing my ‘fess ups. I’m sorry it’s been so long. I’m sorry for not blogging more. Apologies and excuses. Now that we’ve had one, let’s do the other…
It’s been one of those weeks all month long. To start, I hurt my back in such a way that makes sitting a problem. Standing, running, slouching: not a problem. But sitting for longer periods of time, whether at my desk or in the car, has proven to be a problem. And given that I like to sit at my desk for line editing and writing…
The line editing was slow going anyway, but I’m chugging along. I discovered last night that lying on my stomach on my bed hurts less than sitting in my desk chair, so guess where I’ll be editing from this afternoon. The only danger of that is that bed = comfortable = nap. Not exactly a boost to productivity.
Before the back pain set in, I managed to get to a newish coffeeshop last week and added 1,500 words to my work-in-progress. It’s little, but it’s something. And it was nice revisiting those characters again.
I was also in a bit of a reading rut for a while. Nothing I was reading was very enjoyable to me. I think this was partly due to too many book club books and too few “OMG I can’t wait to read this!” books. So I’ve decided to take a small hiatus from all book club books and things that I “should” read because someone thrust them into my hands and told me I had to read it because I would just love it. I’m far too easily guilted into reading books I don’t enjoy and it ends up feeling more like work than fun.*
*And yes, I realize this opens Pandora’s box concerning how much of one’s writing career depends on reading and therefore, isn’t reading actually work, and shouldn’t writers read stuff that wouldn’t read for fun, but rather stuff to learn from… but that’s another blog post for another day.
Thankfully, I pre-ordered Sarah Dessen’s latest on my Kindle (yay instant gratification!) and thus, the reading rut has ended. I’m still taking my time reading it, but I’m enjoying the heck out of it. And when that’s done, I have Tara Altebrando’s Dreamland Social Club waiting for me. It’s like a YA goldmine!
Now, back to our regularly scheduled hiatus.
