Mid October is approaching and the WIP, The Countess and the Privateers, another slight name change, is languishing at thirty thousand words, its wordage creeping rather than growing.
There's nothing wrong with the story, I'm still as excited as I was in the beginning, and the plot is developing very nicely. The problem lies outside it, in a family trauma not affecting me directly, but still very distressing to those I care for. Like everything else, it will pass and, hopefully, leave no lasting scars, but my concern for them keeps tugging away at my concentration and I find myself staring into space rather than writing.
Worse than that, the normal uncertainties and delays of a writer's life seem suddenly mountainous and I find myself seeking reassurance wherever I can. Intellectually, I know this is merely a knock-on effect of the other, but the needy brat, who still populates a distant corner of my mind, is screaming for comfort and won't be hushed.
It's a selfish reaction in giving comfort to others for a part of you to call, "Me too!"
It's back to 1802 for me, where the privateers are gathering,
Amy
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Hi Amy,
Consider yourself reassured! You can get this manuscript finished. I hope your family crisis sorts itself out in a satisfactory manner.
I guess we all need these bumps along the way since they help shape us as writers. I must admit my writing isn't going much faster than a crawl, but I doggedly continue and add words slowly. I figure slow is still progress. I like your title BTW.
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