I really feel the loss of luster and engagement in writing. This feels...different. It's making me so sad and bereft. Writing has been a deep well of energy and engagement and joy for me since I was nine years old, with me all my life. Add to that everyone going to WorldCon and having lives...

I feel so left behind and so....waaaaah. I know I need to pull myself together, relax, just keep on. I mean, either it will come back, that luster and confidence and joy, or it won't. One has to find the jo...