Bad Weeks and New Approaches

This week has not been good for me at all. On Monday, I injured my right shoulder in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu but also got sick at the same time. Combined with this apparent rut that I’m having, and I am at something of a low right now. My goals do not seem any closer, and getting sick and injured doesn’t help as well. Missing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu class is not something that I like doing, as it is a good way to exercise and get any stress out.

My patience and perseverance are getting tested right now. It’s said that one learns the most through hardship and struggle, and I can attest to that. It’s easy to get lazy about things and just be less motivated. I can also see how it would be easy to quit right now, and for me, that would be stopping in trying to be a published author. I would have more time to just do fun things and relax more. However, I know that I would lose a lot as well. Creating things is fun, even though it takes work, but here I am creating worlds, characters, stories, etc. through books. There’s also something to be said about being productive, as I spent most of my twenties being lazy.

I think that one of the big problems is that there haven’t been any indicators of improvement, so I can’t really tell how far I’ve progressed, especially with writing. I have changed my approach to things though in that I’m not prioritizing editing my novels in favor of getting query letters out regularly or short stories out for competitions. I made the mistake of missing weeks working on other things related to writing. I needed to distinguish things that were priority but didn’t need to be done right away, and things that may not be as high of a priority but does need to get done by a certain time. I can only hope that this approach will have some benefits.