I'm not really blue about the company being gone. The holiday was great, we had a wonderful time, but I just can't work with people around. Maybe if they lived down the street instead of in another state. But since they come so far, and are here for about a week each time, I feel like I need to be available to go sightseeing and shopping and stuff.
The hubby was off from Thurs through Sun. We stayed home on Thanksgiving, naturally. Friday, we drove to Tennessee and went sightseeing at an old mill. We also headed up to Sewanee and enjoyed the beautiful grounds of the University of the South.
Saturday was this place. I bought an espresso machine. Saturday evening, we toured the Galaxy of Lights.
Sunday, we went to visit my parents and see how their house is coming along for the Christmas Tour. I'm tired just recounting all we did. This morning, my house is quiet. Oddly quiet, though I usually like it that way. But it takes me a little while to get used to it again.
I have to get my GH entry out the door this week and I don't feel like doing any of it today. But I have to. This is the danger zone, that period of time between when you work hard on a regular basis and when you take a break that's a little too long, a break that makes you start thinking maybe you really aren't cut out for this business. One rejection at a moment like this could set you back for weeks.
I've been there before, been vulnerable and listened to the demon of doubt when the Christmas Eve rejection came in the mail. I won't do it again, but it's easy to think I might on a gray, cold morning when the house is quiet and my mind hasn't yet settled down to business.
Do you have trouble getting into the groove again after time away? Or do you keep working even when the company is there?
I know the gray period you are talking about. I get it when Otto is taking a few days off. I have learned to sit down for an hour or two and just write anyway. It keeps me going. 🙂
OMG!
I’m going through this now. AND I got a nifty rejection from Luna in the mail too. So you KNOW I’m primed. It’s hard to get back into the swing of things, Lynn. I haven’t written because of Thanksgiving. And here it is Monday and I had to FORCE myself to write. Four. Pages. Longhand. It was like pulling a baby from my body. ARGH.
Hugs on the Christmas Eve rejection. That’s a fear of mine too, so I’m just preparing myself. But no matter how hard I try to prepare, I don’t like the place I have to go in my head to do it. It’s dark and scary in there. LOL!
Lynn, I know exactly what you mean. The dh and kids have been over the Thanksgiving holidays. Finally got everyone out the door yesterday, house relatively picked up and had just opened my WIP when the school called to tell me my daughter was sick. How much writing did I get done yesterday? None. Argh!
You went to UCB!! Did you have fun?
I have no groove. I’ve asked for one for Christmas.
Cyn, I think that’s the secret. At least it’s the one we keep hearing: work every day, even if it’s only for an hour. Don’t let your mind get out of the habit. I think there’s legitimacy to that, but I don’t think it’s easy to do when you have company or a hubby who wants (and deserves) your companionship when he’s home. The story world is so filmy that leaving it for any length of time makes it harder to find when you want back in.
Tanya, hugs on the rejection!! But you did get those four pages out yesterday, and that’s more than I managed. So give yourself a pat for that! I hope, hope, hope like hell you don’t get the Christmas R. It was a few years ago for me, so it’s a memory, but it deflated me like a balloon. Add in some other stuff that was going on in my life at that time and I was a depressed puppy. 🙁
Hugs, Rhonda! I know you had to be looking forward to getting into your WIP again. Sorry your daughter was sick. 🙁 Hopefully, you’ll have a better writing day today. 🙂
PC, yep we went to the UCB, but with two men in tow (one of whom is a grouchy old man), we didn’t hang too long. I definitely have to go back. Hope you get that groove for Christmas. 😉