I really must stop blogging at 3am-ish. Perhaps this is when I become most creative?!
Today has been relatively unproductive it seems (today, technically being yesterday…you know what I mean!) and I’ve not really got that much done. I did have a couple of articles to write for Lusso but I’ve just had a complete mind-block on everything today. Which, considering my rough-patch at the moment, is to be expected.
Oh, for those of you who don’t know, I’ve been suffering from ‘Post Viral Chronic Fatigue Syndrome‘ for the past 5 years, which has rendered me somewhat housebound – I get out for about an hour a day but that’s all I can manage at the moment – and I often have bad patches…now being one of them. It’s not quite as simple as just chronic fatigue but I won’t get into details because 1) this is not for a sympathy vote and 2) it’s far too complex to get into right now.
However, this rough patch has left me a bit uninspired…sure, I can blog but this doesn’t really take much thought; I effectively detach my brain and let my fingers do the work. This does mean that any sort of writing takes a fair bit of effort and as I went out and bought a couple of Christmas presents today, that’s my effort used up for the day.
This doesn’t really help matters when you have articles to write, a domain to think of (yes, this is still irritating me beyond words!) and a novel to write. I do have sporadic moments of writing inspiration where I’ll bash out a chapter but those are far and few between. These moments usually tie in with my reading moods. I’ll go through phases of reading novels, which usually inspire me to write my own…I need to get back into this methinks.
I think once Christmas is out of the way – I still have to buy presents, cards etc – I’ll be able to get back into reading and writing more.
In the meantime, I think I need more interesting things to blog about…
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