Sunday, November 14, 2010

I'm a Slug

Okay, I admit it.  I spent yesterday on the couch being a total slug.  I didn't write.  I didn't read.  I just lay there, watching TV and occasionally doing a few rows of crochet. 

I wanted to write.  Hell, I'm way behind on my NaNo words, and even if I forget that, I am writing a book.  If NaNo didn't exist, I'd still want to be working toward THE END.  I even tried to tell myself to forget about NaNoWriMo and just get the words out.  Nada.  I told myself to forget how behind I was - you know, to take the pressure off.  Zilch.

So I was a slug. 

I did think about writing.  You don't want to know what I was thinking.  I must be at that point - you know the one.  The self-doubt point.  :shrug:  I've been here so many times they ought to name a street after me. 

Hubs is being supportive by telling me I don't need to worry about this.  That I don't need to hold myself to some arbitrary deadline.  I should just relax and let the words come when they will.  I understand.  He deals with deadlines and pressures in his day job, and he'd do anything to take that off my shoulders.  I get it.

I still feel like a slug.  Here I am without any outside deadlines or pressures.  I have no agent.  I have no contracts. (Which is pressure enough, if you ask me.)  No one cares if I ever finish another book.  I could chuck the whole idea and the world wouldn't be the wiser - well, except for the 59 people who stop by here on a regular basis.  :waves:

Don't worry, I'm not chucking anything.  I won't even drown my sorrows in beer - like my fellow slugs over there at the slug pub*.  I'll just keep motoring along.  Yesterday I was a slug.  Today I'm going to be a slug with sore fingers because I will write today, even if writing each word is like pulling impossibly long slivers from my fingertips with rusty tweezers.

* that picture is of a beer trap (aka slug pub) for ridding yourself of the pesky slugs in your garden.  They love beer.  They drink, they drown, they die.  :shudder:  Thank goodness I'm not really a slug.

 *All images deleted to avoid any chance of copyright infringement*

6 comments:

  1. We all go through slumps! I've been a slug for the past couple of months when it comes to writing....

    We've tried that beer trap thing before too! It's totally gross but works! Those little alcoholics!

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  2. I so hear you, B.E.! The whole 'chucking it' thing - and the 'no deadline' thing - and especially the 'no one cares' thing.

    And because of that, I have no words of wisdom. None! Actually, I do, but they don't work on me, so I doubt if they'll work on you.

    Do know, however, that I'm cheering for you from my little corner of the universe! And I know how much you love to write, so you'll write :)

    Give yourself a hug and don't beat yourself up overly much.

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  3. I need to tell that to myself too. But the couch just looks sooo inviting.

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  4. Oh, I felt like that this weekend too! You're not alone in the whole slug thing. Slugs unite!

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  5. I've never heard about the beer trick with slugs! Funny.

    Don't worry about being a slug for the day. The way I see it, your brain needed a rest and you took it. Maybe you even felt refreshed and ready to type a bazillion words. No worries!

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  6. It's okay to be a slug. I'm either a slug or I'm in full-blown panic mode with no in between... slug is better :)

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