This is one of those very few bits of advice given by and to every writer. And the general idea is to write something; anything. I'm sure that does do all the good things it's supposed to, exercising the creative muscles and whatever, but does it do enough?
I have been sick for over a week. (Getting old sucks. I used to just work through whatever illness, never miss a day, eventually get over it. Now I totally crash for 4 or 5 days and still don't get well.) While I have not felt well enough to take on my current WIP - which is actually just (hopefully the last) revisions of my next book - I have made myself do some kind of writing and or writing related work: blogging, critiquing, emails, etc.
When I finally got back to my revisions, which had been rolling along quite smoothly, I felt lost. As we all know happens, if you take a few days away from your work, you have to spend days reacquainting yourself with the world and the characters and the story. I KNOW THIS. So why do I let it happen?
The answer is simple: I felt so lousy I didn't care if I had to start reading from chapter one again to get back into my work. I thought, "It's just one day, one more day, a few days, how much can it matter?" But now I'm healthy...and frustrated.
Will I ever learn? Probably not. So, what to do about it? Start reading from chapter one to get my momentum back. And keep going. Again.
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