It is hard to get back in the groove of writing one thing when I’ve been writing a bunch of different stuff and trying to generate new content for a couple of classes. I’m pretty burned out, and heading back to the novel today felt not like coming home, but trying to get back into a pair of pants you wore before you got fat. This is not how I want to feel. To make matters worse, I cannot stay focused. I am so supremely distracted by everything else going on in the universe that I don’t stay locked into the writing mode for long.
Doesn’t help that I don’t sleep.
I think, if I add all of these stressors together, I am running from the story because it was so totally obliterated in the edit and now I am afraid of not being able to turn it into a gold seller. All of that is in my head, but my head is where the fiction happens. I need to get clear and develop a sense of how to stay writing and stay focused so I can get back into the mindset of these characters and help them reach the end of the journey.