There is a lot of advice out there about how to write around the day job
and the other daily pressures of life, but what happens when unforeseen
circumstances introduce themselves into the mix, like long-term
illness, and you immediately find yourself involved?
I'm
going through something along these lines at the moment and I can only
describe it like this: one minute you're juggling all the little pebbles
in life that make up everything you're used to, when all of a sudden
you see a big boulder hurtling towards you. You manage to catch it but
it keeps dragging you further and further away from what you know and
love.
Everybody copes and manages in different ways
and we each have varying levels of patience and tolerance. There are
days when I envy the people without responsibility. I don't have any
solutions to share, but I just wanted to connect with fellow writers
going through something similar. This is the first time in almost a
month I've been able to sit and write fresh material, freely and without
any pressures to be at the surgery or the hospital or run to the
pharmacy - and this, in itself, is a tonic.
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