An entire summer.
That’s how long I’ve gone without doing any serious writing.
It was a planned break. I was rather busy this summer and keeping my regular schedule of writing would have complicated things.
So, I decided that since my brain needed a good vacation anyway, I’d give it a nice, long break. That way, when I returned to my normal writing routine in the fall, I’d be able to dive into a new project refreshed and revived.
Taking a long break is not easy for me. Writing is an important part of my life. Its tentacles are wrapped around my brain so tight that for the first month I had to fight the craving to write every day. It took a while, but I finally broke free and could go about my day without that urge to record the stories that were playing out in my head.
Fall is here, and now that it’s time to get back to my writing routine I have to deal with the rebound effect. I did such a great job convincing my brain that it could live without writing that it now has no desire to write.
But I’m not worried.
I have my computer out, and I know that all I need to do is go through my many projects until I find THE ONE. That special project that my brain won’t be able to resist.
Time to un-break!