#Discouraged

That about sums up how I'm feeling about a lot of things in regards to my writing right now. Finding an editor, figuring out how to proceed in my Entwined Fates series, continuing my sequel to Shattered Lives.... I just don't know how to proceed with anything right now and it's absolutely depressing. That seems like an exaggeration I'm sure, but I have a goal to get this series half way done by August and here I am debating if I should even write it at all. See? Depressing. I've devoted years of my life to this book, rewriting it over and over, and right when I think I'm finally in a grove...BAM! It's no longer working out, my goal and my vision fade in tandem, and then I'm once again left with nothing wondering if there's any possible way to salvage it.

Perhaps I am taking on too much with this series. Perhaps it merely needs to be written as an entire book first, then broken up into different books? (To keep it as one book would tun it into over a 1,000 pages, and obviously that can't be an option!)

Well, that's my pity rant for the day. I think I'll start trying to write the single book and work my way forward from there.

Yikes! It's Been Awhile....

Well, yes, the title of this post has been rather aptly named. How is it I managed to get so utterly distracted by life I quite literally completely forgot about this blog? The blog that's been my heart and soul for the last four years? Oh if only I had a good explanation. But I'm afraid it's as dull as "I've had trouble focusing and haven't been able to write until today". And then when I was browsing ideas, came across my own blog.... I repeat: Yikes.

To make matters worse I'm afraid I can't stay and write like I so utterly want now that I'm finally able to write again. Because I have a 130-question real estate licencing exam I'm supposed to be studying for...and haven't been....

So I'm going to attempt to get on that and focus, because focusing has been my ultimate enemy this last month. So on that note, wish me luck! 

Blocked? Try Cleaning!

I can't believe I haven't touched on this yet! Of all the methods I have written about, the one thing I haven't mentioned yet as a potential treatment (or perhaps even a cure-all if you're lucky!) for writer's block is to clean. Cleaning anything, whether it's your closest or your entire house, can be extremely therapeutic. As many studies show, a decluttered and well-organized space reflects a decluttered and well-organized mind, putting you in the path towards clarity lifting your spirits and even awakening that muse who has been kept silence for so long. Why do you think there are so many books about cleaning and organizing your home? Your surroundings [often] have a direct impact on you and your well-being, and often reflect what's happening inside you.

Someone with depression may not have the ability or motivation to clean. Or even put stuff away. Everything they use accumulates around them, piling up and up until it becomes too much. If this same person has a muse, that muse, already squandered and drowning as a result of this depression, is now suffocated through the anxiety the mess outside of her home, that is her "host". But to take one step and start actively tackling the cleaning process can lift the spirits, especially as the end result-a clean space--starts shining through. And when that space finally has been cleared, you've accomplished something. You feel satisfied. Like that you may find your inner muse reawakening, and you might even be able to write out that chapter you've been struggling with. Heck, you might even be able to finish your book! Or maybe not. But it's worth a try, is it not?

Want to listen to some inspirational music to help? Try "Never Give Up on Your Dreams (instrumental)" by Two Steps From Hell, or Hans Zimmer's "Run Free".