Last week was dismal, even worse than the previous week. By the time I finally worked on my novel yesterday, I had gone a whopping nine days in a row without writing. But I'm not going to talk about that, or even do my usual breakdown. Instead I'm just going to list what I did do:
- I worked on my novel one day, yesterday
- I wrote a couple of blog posts
- I posted not just once, but twice to my author IG
- I set up my new iPad, which I got for writing, as I am planning a staggered transition to Apple
Toward the end of the week I started feeling slightly more able to focus. I'm not entirely ready to go back to normal, but perhaps I can at least start to focus on other things than watching for and consuming all the latest headlines.
Lessons Learned
I think the biggest takeaway last week is that I finally — I hope — hit rock bottom, and got the least possible amount done. I think it's important that we don't overlook how utterly traumatic the last few weeks have been. Watching this hostile takeover of our democracy and the erosion of our rights as citizens is having an impact. I'm going to give myself some grace, acknowledge that there's no way I ever could have focused on anything else over the last few weeks, take a deep breath, and move on.
This week will be better.
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