Today I was looking at the outline for my youth football playbook and thinking about tendency breakers–plays I can install and call each week that are completely out of character from our normal situational plays. These sort of shakeups are good for the team and good for the competition, because it forces them to recognize that we are not always going to be vanilla and do as expected. This holds true of the writing as well. I’ve struggled mightily as of late to the point where I’ve failed to hit my word mark for over a week now. Not once have I done the right thing and fought through towards success. It appears that I need a tendency breaker in order to get me off and out of this funk and back towards a successful trend of writing.
I need something to pop, because I am failing hard. The bulk of the problem is the level of stress coursing through these narrow veins with no real sense of ability to use writing as an outlet for that stress. Some of that comes from what I am writing. Some of that comes from what I have not figured out how to write.
Either way, I need to get out. My plan is to find a restaurant, hunker down with some food, and put down serious pages. I’m stuck on a specific project because I wrote a huge chunk of it and accidentally deleted the chunk. I cannot seem to get past that to write the chunk again. I need to get past that tomorrow. I need to get to moving forward and finishing these last 3-4 parts of the project in order to be on to the next, and the next. That is how professional writers work. Tendency breakers help to get me off my ‘spot’ so to speak and get me into a mindset that I expect to lead me to success.
I’ll let you know what happens.
Some Thoughts:
- Back to the gym Wednesday. There is a lot to be done. A lot more to be planned in regards to understanding how to lose 20-30 lbs safely.
- As I say this my back feels sore. Karma.
- Still going. We shall see the results.