Damn, 2020 has been crazy!

It’s the first week of March, and I haven’t posted on my blog since December, my birthday week. It’s insane! So, what the hell happened to me?

Don’t worry, it wasn’t all bad. Unfortunately, it wasn’t all good either.

First the bad:

Winter is a bad time for my immune system. I wrote about my health issues before. Even though I’m lucky that I mostly deal with colds and gastritis (and a lot of people deal with a lot worse), being sick for a long time really brings you down emotionally, socially, financially and professionally. It kills or severely damages your productivity, inspiration, and motivation. Not only you don’t have the energy or the health to write, but you lack things to write about as well.

A writer’s nightmare. Poor health, and a boring life.

As I’m writing this, I’m recovering from a bad stomach week. And this was after having recovered for a cold that stayed for two weeks.

Yikes! Of course, not all the news and panic about this Coronavirus is helping my anxiety. I’m not panicking, but I’m not feeling very confident about staying healthy in the long term.

OK, that is the bad stuff. Off to the good:

• I did go to Norway for a week in late December!
• I took up dancing again. I was lindy hopper a while back. Now I’m practicing regularly (when I’m not sick), and I’m taking blues lessons.

For those who are wondering what lindy hop looks like (when you are a pro, which I’m not, but it does look awesome!):

• I finished my second novel’s first draft, and I started talks about my cover design.
• I’m collecting story ideas and looking for places to pitch.
• Got some rejections. (Which means I pitched.)
• Going through Nick Stephenson’s Your First10KReaders course. I love it, though I’d have loved audio transcripts (I know, it would be insane amount of more work!) but thankfully slides are downloadable. The content is great (and I’ll be writing a review soon.)

 

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And here you go! I’ll be back with more writing craft posts, but I wanted to get this out of the way in case you are feeling like you are going through a slump.

Let’s write!