Falling Apart?

ByKristen Koster

Stressed Zebra CartoonI honestly don’t think it’s quite that bad. It just feels like it. I’ve got a lot of stress going on in my real life (with the boy’s never-ending headache(s) and the girl off at camp on her own) plus I’m hating how the second part of my opening chapter is going. It feels like that poor zebra over there.

I love the first section which I posted for Excerpt Monday, but I’m just not feeling this one. Part of it’s the POV shift to the hero and I don’t have as good a grasp on him right now. I know, I need to just push through it and keep going, but mustering the motivation to do it is difficult.

So what have I been doing instead of writing? Reading, of course. Nothing in my genre in the past couple of weeks, but a lot of science-fiction, fantasy and some contemporary romances. It’s all been new stuff, maybe I need to go back and reread some old friends and consider it some much needed chicken soup for my much battered nerves.

It will get better and I know I just need my space back. I don’t usually have the television on during the day and I’m just realizing what a drain the cartoons and silly sitcoms have become.

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  2. Yes, you are right. The best thing to do is “push through it”. That’s what I had to do with “Amachi” last weekend. I was stuck on a section and just had to deal with it the best I could and push through. I figure I can clean it up when I go back to edit the chapter, so I’m not really worried about it.

    You’ll get through it I’m sure.

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