I'm currently working on a very special writing project. Actually, the word "special" doesn't quite sum it up properly. So far, it's just a bunch of notes, scribble, gibberish, and gobbledygook. It's almost impossible to discern the good ideas from the not so good ones right now.
This project is so close to my heart and maybe that is where all the pressure is coming from. Self-imposed stress because I really, REALLY want to get this right. I'm sure that labeling this project as the "book for my unborn nephew" was not the best idea ever but I wanted to make sure I didn't lose focus of who it was for and why it was so important for me to write.
Right now, I feel like I have severe brain freeze. I even have that crazy weird pain smack between my eyes. I'm trying my best to keep writing because it keeps my brain moving instead of having it freeze completely. Even my giant mug of dandelion tea isn't helping to make the thoughts flow cohesively or coherently.
I guess the thing to do is to keep on keeping on. I can't stop working on this just because I hit a roadblock. I will step away from it for a while and see if that helps. Or maybe I will try writing by hand in a notebook. Sometimes just holding a pen or pencil and hearing the sound it makes as words are poured onto paper gets me in a creative mood.
Anyhoo....off I go to work on something else :-)
Smiling,
~V
I'm sorry to hear you were having brain freeze over this. Probably because it's so important to you! (I felt that same effect recently about some writing that is very important to me, so I know how you feel.)
ReplyDeleteI hope you were able to work past it. Or at least that taking a break from working on it helped the brain freeze forget to find you. If you ever need any support or encouragement for this special book, you know where to find me!