I sit at my old fold top with a million and one varied and drastically tangled thoughts, wrapped not so neat in plethora of to-do lists. And this little bouquet of nasty seems to have created a traffic jam in my head. A pile up, really. A bash up where the realities of a young family and a old house and my creative aspirations have collided. Where my muse has left the scene, my fingers are at a stand still (except right now) and my imagination is on a bus to the ER.
GrrrrrrrrrRRRRRRR!
Okay, I will say this. Maybe I'm not getting the word count I've been aiming for lately, but I'm still getting the NaNoWriMo word meter to climb. And maybe I didn't have a plan for my blog today, but I did choose to write something instead of skip out. And look, I came up with some sort of point...I think.
My point is just do it! Pick something out the pile up in your brain, shake it off and begin it. It's okay to feel overwhelmed. It's normal to get bogged down and not feel at your best. And maybe whatever you choose to begin turns out to be rubbish in the end. But at least your further outside the pile up in your head and closer to.....something. And never NEVER!!!!! sit and do nothing. It's how muscles atrophy and it's how dreams die.
So I leave you with a quote I know I have quoted before on these pages. A fitting quote from Alice in Wonderland...
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Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
The Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to
Alice: I don't much care where.
The Cat: Then it doesn't much matter which way you go.
Alice: …so long as I get somewhere.
The Cat: Oh, you're sure to do that, if only you walk long enough.
GrrrrrrrrrRRRRRRR!
Okay, I will say this. Maybe I'm not getting the word count I've been aiming for lately, but I'm still getting the NaNoWriMo word meter to climb. And maybe I didn't have a plan for my blog today, but I did choose to write something instead of skip out. And look, I came up with some sort of point...I think.
My point is just do it! Pick something out the pile up in your brain, shake it off and begin it. It's okay to feel overwhelmed. It's normal to get bogged down and not feel at your best. And maybe whatever you choose to begin turns out to be rubbish in the end. But at least your further outside the pile up in your head and closer to.....something. And never NEVER!!!!! sit and do nothing. It's how muscles atrophy and it's how dreams die.
So I leave you with a quote I know I have quoted before on these pages. A fitting quote from Alice in Wonderland...
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Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
The Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to
Alice: I don't much care where.
The Cat: Then it doesn't much matter which way you go.
Alice: …so long as I get somewhere.
The Cat: Oh, you're sure to do that, if only you walk long enough.
Great quote, Nicole. And so true. Congrats on sticking with it. You may not be as far along as you want, but you'll get there - as long as you keep walking. ;o)
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