Emerging from my funk
Posted on April 8, 2010
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I won (barely) a flash challenge at Liberty Hall this week. The key thing was not the win, but that I wrote 1,600 words of passable prose in 90 minutes. The ideas came and some were a tiny bit novel. It gives me confidence that I can get better. When I came home from the hospital I had no ability to write. I think there was still too many drugs working on my body. I wondered if I was going to be able to get back to writing at first. Although I wrote a few other stories since I’ve been home, I haven’t been able to come up with unique (is anything really unique in writing? … at least unique to me.) In addition, they were short… under 1,000 words. So this represents more of a return to my previous writing style.
I have a WotF story to write this weekend. I’ve already got a rough outline of the story and the ideas came pretty easily. I couldn’t have done it a few weeks ago, so perhaps my illness induced drag on my creativity is behind me.
The problem is I’ve gotten some work projects to address that will get a bit in the way of getting down to putting words down on paper. Once the story is done, I’ve got to get back to my novels. They are gathering dust (metaphorically) on my hard drive and I need to get them in the position to submit.
Speaking of submissions, another writing goal is to have ten submissions out at a time. At this point I have… none. My WotF story didn’t place, but I felt it was one of my best shorts. I have a number of good candidates to submit (and resubmit). I’ll get them out soon.
As far as my recovery is concerned, I’m getting better every day. I’ve been out of the hospital for a month today and feel fine. My strength isn’t all the way back, but that’s as much a function of lousy Spring weather (it snowed this week).
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It’s great to hear that you are back writing again and feeling better! I see you’ve thrown your hat in with the Hatrack crew! I’m glad. It will be the first WoTF for me since last year.
And, hey congrats on the win!