Stuck In The Middle

As the sorry state of this blog can tell you, I’ve been neglecting my writing something fierce. Don’t worry, this isn’t a pity blog. I’ve just chosen to go in different directions for a while.

Direction One: Cuteness

I had a baby! She’s pretty fantastic.

Direction Two: School! 

I’m back in college. It makes me feel old (which is pretty sad when I’m only 27). That doesn’t matter, because this time around I’m going to get that certificate.

Those things mean that I’m not spending a lot of time on writing. I miss writing like crazy but it’s going in my opportunity cost folder.

The hardest time that I’m having with it is that my story ideas aren’t moving forward. I’ve been in the middle of the same draft for two years or more, and I’ve been workshopping another for a year. That’s a lot of time to spend frozen in the middle of a single project. Like many writers, I struggle with losing interest. I’m torn- do I abandon these projects and find something smaller (and more exciting) to work on, or do I keep plugging away? On the first project I’m about 70% through, so I’m planning on sticking that one out. On the second- well, we’ll see. I start school soon, and if it’s another year before I get to it that idea may end up in the ‘wish  I could of’ heap. 

Hiatus

I’ve been doing some math recently and it hasn’t been pretty. Over the last few months blogging time has been beating out writing time by roughly three to one. That is not good. I love blogging a lot more then I thought I would, but that doesn’t stop it from being time consuming. I think it might be time to reevaluate.

It’s not that I’m quitting forever. Obviously that wouldn’t help me much! It’s just that a combination of bad health, limited time, and boredom (from the blog posts) have meant that these four posts a takes me a week or two to write. I keep hoping the next month will be different but it never is. It’s killing me to admit that I can’t do it all. Even as I write this post I’m rethinking posting it. After all, blogs are vital to a hopeful writer like me. But so is free writing time.

I’ll probably still pop in every now and again with ideas that catch my fancy, but it won’t be anything regular like it has been. Hopefully in a few months I’ll be able to bring my focus back here in a way that doesn’t cause problems with the things I started this blog to promote- my books.