Where I left off.

Good grief I haven't written in goodness knows how long and suddenly I am blogging twice in a short period of time. What has come over me? Actually I am putting off the inevitable. Doing the writing part. It is not as though it is anything more complicated than I normally do. It's not. But I, like others, have difficulty in actually getting down to the nitty gritty of it all. I am working on a short story. But it seems the mind is just not for having it and is trying to find ways for me not to get started on the end of the short story I am attempting to write for a competition.

I do know that once I get started on it things will begin to flow. But it is those first few seconds when I have opened up the word document, and find the end and re-read the last thing I wrote all of two hourse ago, and I have completely forgotton what I was going to write next. My mind will panic and think I should really be getting on with the novel I have started to write to which I am sorely tempted but my hand, which is resting on the mouse, doesn't move. I know that I have to get this done one way or another. If is not as good as I thought it would be I can always delete it and then try again. But somehow I can think of all the things I want to put into the novel. Flipping typical. Come on Christina you can do it. Time to sign off and get the mind working on that short story for the competition.

Keeping on an Even Keel

It has been just over three weeks since I've returned to work after a long absence due to illness and I have to admit it is tough getting back into the swing of things. The early starts; the travelling and the catching up with all of those people who I haven't seen until now. Things have certainly changed in the time I've off, not that I expect things to stand still, that just doesn't happen, but some of the faces that were there last year aren't there now and it is strange coming back to not seeing them. It is not only that has changed. I have too. Well I'm bound to amn't I after everything that's happened. But with so stark a reminder of how things have changed it makes me a little nervous.

There has been two things which have kept me going over this period of time. One is my husband, family and friends who have all be so marvellous in being there for me and the other thing which has kept me on an even keel, so to speak, is the fact that I am still writing. Something which I pushed to keep up whilst I was off as it gave me something to focus on, something that was a constant comfort and gave me a feeling of reassurance as I tried to get through the difficult times and which even now is still keeping me on the straight an narrow. So many more ideas for short stories has come to me over the past few weeks which has been great. The only trouble now, other than the early starts, is getting all the ideas down onto paper. There now seems not enough time in the day for it all. Not that there was enough time even when off. I best go and get on with it.