Either you have the urge to write, the creativity, much less the time … or, you don’t.  I have TRIED for four years now since covid to write as prolifically as I did back in the day, and let me tell you … it doesn’t work that way anymore.

I was staying with a friend whose mother felt that if I sat down at a set time, for a set period of time, then I would write my stories.  That didn’t work.  Although I did get a few words down, I spent more time procrastinating, reading, and just doing anything BUT writing.  A bad case of the ‘don’t wanna’s’

I used to write as though I had OCD and perhaps, to a degree, I did.  I’d write madly, deeply, passionately and my fingers would literally go numb with the efforts.  My best weekend, I wrote 40K.  20K was an average day.  It’s why, over the last 12-14 years I’d been able to get out so many stories that occurred to me.

Sadly, those days are over.  However, the other day, here, where I am now, I was able to get out 17K and I was like, YAY, maybe the fog brain I’ve dealt with is gone.  The next day, I didn’t write much of anything.  But that is how it goes.  You work manically and then take a few days to rest the old brain.  We shall see if anything comes of it.

I love hearing from fans and the occasional comment that they ‘hope’ I’m working on more of ‘this’ story or ‘that’ series.  Seriously, it gets me thinking of that story and what I can add to it or the series.

Meanwhile, I am working on new stuff.  I have hundreds of stories that were percolating before and during covid, but we shall see if I get ANY of them DONE.  Sadly, they don’t write themselves.