When the Time Avails Itself, But the Brain Does Not

This week has been… distracting. Between mom life school bus dramas to our 18 year old refrigerator throwing in the towel, it finally occurred to me Wednesday afternoon, when I had the time to play catch up on the Substack, that while the time had availed itself, my brain simply wasn’t into it.

I shut my computer, partially attended the Fictionistas Zoom call and awaited the family’s arrival home so we could go shopping for an appliance no one in our house had budgeted for.

It’s now past my kid’s bedtime though he lays in his bed awake, I still have a lunch to pack, clothes to iron, and day six of school supply bagging to prep for tomorrow’s trip. I did maintain my writing commitment today — at least an hour of work on the Stop Writing Alone book — but revision brain is different than my internal creator and she has been nonplused by my day-to-day dramas, thankfully. I’m going to give the other girl a short rest.

So, for any of my paid subscribers looking around for the Story Club writing exercise to accompany lesson 3, it will be here later in the week. For anyone who has sent me an email or a private message that I haven’t responded to in the last week, I’m not ignoring you!

I am looking forward to this Friday’s Writing Prompt Party (see the calendar of events post for September to get the link) I hope to see you there!