2019 was a fairly challenging year, but every obstacle is a lesson. Below are some lessons I’ve picked up over the course of the year.
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12 Things I Learned in 2019
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Teachable moments.
As an introvert, I was bewildered when strangers (i.e. neighbours I’ve never spoken to) started chatting to me. The reason: my newly-adopted, one-eyed rescue dog.
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I Lost My Writing Mojo!
November is over and we are nearly at the end of 2019. November is also the month on NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), and many writers take on this challenge to come up with 50,000 words in 30 days. Congratulations if you took it on and survived it!
Regardless of your word count (if you took part), you might feel rather drained from all the writing you’ve done. It’s perfectly natural to feel that way. It’s not writer’s block, it’s writer’s fatigue. You get so sick and tired of seeing your characters, untangling your plot, reworking your scenes that you just want to throw up your hands and yell, “F*** it, I’m done with writing!”
If you have never felt something like that, lucky you. The rest of us mortals deal with such thoughts at different points in our writing journeys. Some authors feel the drop in motivation in the third or fourth or even fifth revision, while others (like me) may be fed up with our characters fighting against the plot.
We all have different strategies for coping with writer’s fatigue. These are my preferred means, so perhaps they could be helpful to you too.