Storytime with Rachel F Hundred

One slow step at a time.

A writer writes.

Or so the saying goes.

I am sure there are countless examples of many writers who do another job to keep the bills paid, and who continue writing in every spare minute they manage to find in a day.

I am not that writer.

If I have another job, it is difficult to balance my chronic illness, the job, and writing.

Hell, it is difficult without a job to balance the chronic illness and the writing.

During August I struggled. A busy time at work and health issues meant very little writing took place that month. My stories sat unwritten and lurking in my mind.

My writing goal over the past two weeks has been to write something every day. It did not have to be the stories I had previously planned, it just had to be something.

Only when there is a gap in the writing, the rhythm can be hard to find again.

Staring at a blank page on the computer, re-reading half-written stories trying to pick up the main thread again…I found it difficult to begin. I should do that important thing I needed to do, I mused, backing away from the laptop and heading away to run an errand.

But finally I forced myself to put my fingers on the keyboard and began writing again.

The words did not come easily. At first, it was like trying to yank each one out of my head by force. But I persevered over the course of the past two weeks and slowly but surely they began to flow. Looking back, it is not good writing, but it is writing and it feels good to creating a story again even if I’m going to end up re-writing it to fix all the issues that are woven in just because it is me finding my writing rhythm again.

Unfortunately for those waiting on the Harry Potter fanfic, Another Dimension, there will be another month to wait, I’m changing the likely publish date to October this week. I should have more writing to publish than just my writer’s log though within the next two weeks and that is heartening.

There is a poem I am currently letting simmer in my mind, but I can see the bare bones of it. There is the original work that is my current story and there is my Big Moxie Q3 challenge story which is half-written like many of my projects from the past couple of months.

In the meantime, I am also slowly but surely recovering my health again. I’m letting my body dictate the pace which means that I’m not always operating at the speed that I want. I’m not always getting through all the things on my to-do list on the day I’d like to get to them. However, I am slowly but surely ticking each item as done and that is satisfying.

The joy of finally finding the path back to where I want to be is immense and I’m definitely celebrating that achievement this week.

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