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Taking a back seat for a while

~ Elaine Jeremiah ~ 10 Comments

Hi all. Just  a very quick post to say that I’m still here but not doing as much in the blogging world at the moment. Reason being I recently started a new job and although it’s part time, I’m finding it’s taking me a while to get used to my new routine.

The upshot is I’m very tired at the moment and I’ve got zero energy so I’m just going to take it easy for a while and blog as and when I can. I hope you can understand that I need to do this for my own well being and that as soon as I’m able I’ll be participating more in the blogging world.

I hope you all have a lovely Christmas and a very happy New Year. 😀

My writing’s been sidelined

~ Elaine Jeremiah ~ 19 Comments

I thought I’d write a blog post about not writing. Yes, you heard me. OK, so I haven’t given up writing, far from it. Despite abysmal book sales and feeling low about it, that’s not what I’m doing.

But a couple of weeks ago I started a new job and although it’s only part time, it’s making me quite tired so that I just don’t have the energy to devote to writing as much as before. I’m barely keeping up with the housework/looking after the dog etc. And most evenings now I just want to veg on the sofa in front of the TV (shock, horror).

One of the main reasons I have in my life for taking a step back from things sometimes, not just from writing, is because of a health condition, which I’ve written about before on this blog. I’m not going to go into great detail about it now – maybe in another post – but suffice it to say I have to put my health first before anything else, and I mean anything!

So yes, my writing is suffering a bit. I have managed to do a few sessions on it this week but not as much as I would have liked. I would like to say a BIG thank you to everyone who commented on my previous post with their thoughts on book promotion and generally making my books more visible. You’re stars, you really are and that was some great advice, which I promise you I’ll put into practice when I’m not feeling quite so knackered!

I’m sure what I’m going through as far as tiredness goes is completely normal when it comes to starting a new job. And my health condition does make it worse – I generally tire easily. Hence not doing things like NaNo – I simply wouldn’t be able to keep up. But I’m hoping that after a while I’ll get used to the routine of this new job and be able to incorporate working on my writing into that routine.

I feel a bit frustrated about it as I’d really like to be doing more with my writing as well as promoting my two novels which are already published. But I know I need to give myself time to adjust. (It doesn’t help that at the moment I’m fighting off a virus too! 😦 )

So what do you do when you’re busy and you’re feeling too tired to write? Do you soldier on anyway or do you cut back the hours you spend on it?

Yay I did it!

~ Elaine Jeremiah ~ 7 Comments

At the beginning of January I posted on my blog that I was aiming to write every day in January.  And I’m pleased to say I more or less achieved it!

More or less?  I hear you ask, scratching your heads.  Surely you either write or you don’t?  Well I took the challenge that I’d set myself, with the help of a blog post that suggested it, to mean that I needed to do something towards my writing every day.

Most days I did manage to work on my WIP.  But on the days I didn’t, whether I was too tired or busy, I either did a whole load of planning on my next story (I actually began planning it in January) or worked on my blog.

So I can safely say that I achieved my goal.  And now comes the hard part.  Now I have to see if I can keep it up and continue to write/work towards my writing every day of every month.

I know we’re still only two days in to February, but so far I’m doing OK.  I’ll keep you posted on my progress. 🙂