Life Takes Over

So, at the beginning of this month, I said my writing was stalled.  Turns out it was a lot more than a stall and a lot more serious than we realized.  I ended up having an emergency, minor surgery about a week ago.  It wasn't really a big deal, but it did need to be done, and I've felt immensely better since.  My energy levels are rising, my concentration is better, and, most importantly, the physical issues that were interfering with my life and my writing seem to have been taken care of.  The problem now is getting back into the routine of things after being out of it for so long.

Getting back into my editing job hasn't been so hard.  I suspect it goes back to being responsible to someone else and on an external deadline.  Being behind by about 2 weeks has also eaten into the time I have to do my own writing.  I usually reserve Fridays for my own work, but with the amount of work that needs to get done and soon, I've dropped that until I'm caught up.  As for during the week, I spend the mornings working and the afternoons resting because I'm still recovering and want to make sure I get healthy as soon as possible.  I want to work on my own stuff, I'm just too tired to.

I have done some tinkering with A.C., but not much.  A.C. is my first priority, though, so hopefully as I get stronger, I'll get back into it and move along as well as I was before all this health stuff interfered.  It's just nice to know the "stall" wasn't me being lazy, that there was a solution.  The constant drag is gone.  Now all I need to do is start building up some of those reserves I lost over the past few months.

It's scary how your physical state can have such a devastating affect on your writing.