Jennifer McKenzie
Romance--Boy meets girl. Romantic Suspense--Boy meets girl with dead bodies.
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Real Life Intrudes (Rant Below Proceed With Caution)
Sooooooo, Michelle and I made a decision to quit smoking on Monday. Bad idea. On Sunday, I took my husband to the emergency room and he was diagnosed with new onset diabetes. Complete with open sore that looks really nasty. THEN, both my boys were sick yesterday and I was home with all three of them.I'm not doing too well. I've stressed and bitched and wanted to throw things.
I've been distracted, angry, frustrated and a host of other things. Not exactly conducive to creative writing. I have a "big one" that I want finished so I can query an agent. I've got 12K written and I'm aiming for 100K. I have things that have slipped through my fingers as I'm spinning my wheels.
Is this normal? Who knows. All I know is that just when I think I'm finally getting somewhere, my real life is rearing it's ugly head. I want to hide away and pretend that my only job is to keep breathing.
*Deep breath*. I've had a few cigarettes. Not as many as usual, so I guess that's something. You want to know what made me feel better? I watched all three of the Lord Of The Rings movies. Sometimes, when I think I have a ton of stuff piling on top of me, I can watch other people (albiet fictional characters) who have more and more piled on top of them and feel as if I don't have it so bad. I don't have to watch people I love dying violently or fight, even when hope is completely gone. All I have to do is not smoke for today, get my husband's health back on track and pray a little more. Seems pretty insignificant in the face of other world events around me.
Still, it really puts a cramp in the writing. Being really tense and distracted doesn't make the story flow or the words show up on that blank, blinking page. It colors my attitude as I write.
I did put some of my bitchiness to work on a secondary character. That gave my heroine a little snark she hadn't shown before. Now, if I can just channel all this excess crap and get it on paper, perhaps I can make this work.
What do you do when Real Life intrudes on the writing? What gets you back on track?
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