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Thursday 5 April 2012

Enthusiasm - an intermittent entity

My enthusiasm for writing comes and goes in cycles.  Usually it depends on how tired I'm feeling, and after a full days work and then finally getting the little one to bed, all I want to do is chill out.  This mostly involves trying to read and then falling asleep without realising it.
At these times I just don't have the energy, either physical or mental, to sit down to do any writing.
This will continue for a few days and before I know it a week has gone buy and I'm annoyed with myself for wasting yet another week of potential writing time.

I'm learning that writing can be a fairly solitary endeavour, and this in itself can contribute to enthusiasm putting his coat on and leaving for a while.  I've really felt the benefit this week of having so many excellent blogs to discover, to find that I'm not the only one having these thoughts and feelings.  There's a whole new community waiting to help me entice the enthusiasm back, and help drive me forward with all the ideas I have floating in my head.

I only hope that some of my blogs may help others keep going as much as they help me.

4 comments:

  1. You never know when you're making a difference! So keep writing!

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  2. It is hard Heather, you know from my blog that is exactly how I feel too. But hey ho, our kids are our world, and will provide us with the perfect writing material for when Mr Enthusiasm makes a return, regardless of how fleeting it may be. Chin up, Keep going, smile and don't stress.

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  3. It's always good to know you're not alone. And you're not! I've been lacking in enthusiasm this week (and I get paid to write!). Ironically, sitting down and doing it despite how I feel usually pays off.

    We're reading...so keep writing! :)

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  4. All I can suggest is that you sit at the computer to write, for a set number of minutes a day, and set yourself a really sensible word target, on ANY subject, to keep your writing mind awake. When I was working full time with small kids, I found a time after I'd got ready for bed when I would just sneak off for twenty minutes and my target was 300 words. I ended up writing a book over eight months, pretty much just doing that! Sometimes the book wouldn't come, but a character sketch or a place would! I love your blog...keep going!

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