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Stuck in the Doldrums

Posted on June 28, 2017 by Michell

I have this nasty (or is it merely foolish?) habit of taking too much on. Too many writing projects, too many volunteer jobs. Just…too many. I can go great guns for a long period of time but, when I stop to smell the roses I have a hard time getting things going again. That was the case with the release of Scouts of the Apocalypse: Zombie War. It was a LOT of work to get it ready and out. Now that it’s in print, I still have work to do promoting it plus there’s all the other stuff. Getting underway on all that other stuff is proving to be difficult. It doesn’t help that it’s summer and spending time out-of-doors […]

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Posted on September 15, 2015 by Michell

Every once in a while, and for me it is usually the beginning of summer, we experience a drop in productivity or energy or motivation to do the things that are important for us. In my case, I think it happens when it does because I’ve just finished a major project (or two) and I need some down-time to relax and rejuvenate. The problem with doing this (definitely for me) is getting back out of relaxation mode and moving into productivity mode. I call this period my doldrums; basically, I know I need to get busy because I have lots of things on-the-go or coming up but I don’t have the momentum to get working on them. That lack of […]

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Posted on October 16, 2013 by Michell

Have you ever been faced with difficulty writing after finishing a big, high-energy project? I know I have. It usually starts out as me telling myself I’ve earned a (brief) break after burning the midnight oil to finish something. The problem usually is, brief often becomes prolonged. I know, I really pushed to get Mik Murdoch 2 finished. I wrote more than 30,000 words in under 2-weeks to ensure it would be complete by the end of my holidays. Then I took a short break. I didn’t fall into the trap of letting it extend. I immediately followed that up with two short stories I had been meaning to write for two anthologies. That also was a relatively fast write […]