I cut one of my main typing/writing fingers this week—had to have three stitches. Don’t you get irritated with yourself when you do something stupid (like fish around in a sink of soapy water feeling for a broken piece of glass) and injure yourself in the process?
I’ve had to temporarily change my way of writing and typing. But, at least, I can still do those things.
Sometimes circumstances result in changes to the way we approach our writing work. We have to go out and get a job, we become ill or we experience a lifestyle change—get married/divorced, have children, move in with an elderly parent, etc.
If you’ve been writing for any length of time, you have experienced challenges that interfere with the flow of your writing work. I know people who have had their writing sidelined numerous times over the years. Some never bounce back. Others write despite what’s going on around them.
Which kind of writer are you? Do you need inspiration to help you stay on your writing track despite disrupting challenges? Or can you inspire us with your stories of writing even during difficult circumstances?
I’ve written in former blog posts about my own story of challenges and sacrifice which ultimately led to my establishing a career as a writer. If you haven’t read it and would like to, let me know and I’ll repeat it in a future post.
In the meantime, I’m offering my online Book Proposal course FREE to the first ten people to sign up. I’ll be starting the course December 27, 2010. Please do not sign up at my website. Contact me personally with questions or to sign up. PLFry620@yahoo.com.
To learn more about this course and what it involves, please visit http://www.matilijapress.com/course_bookproposal.htm
Now I’d better do some filing or something to rest the tip of my poor finger.