Dateline 9-16-2017

Well, today is the big day... well... today is my second attempt at a making it the big day where I jump back into writing fiction for the first time in close to two years and that's only if you count the ghostwriting work that I did when I was actively doing freelance writing. Though I was proud of each of these paid pieces, none of them felt like anything that I would write if I wasn't working off of the clients' ideas and/or outlines.

Other than that, it's been close to three years since I've worked on non-blogging content of my own. I was supposed to start last Monday but between the hangover that I was nursing and the fact that my weekdays include a primetime break to watch TV with the family in my effort to avoid complete social isolation while also avoiding staring at the same four windowless walls for twenty hours a day, this original start date just didn't come to pass.

Even though I was disappointed that I didn't stick to my plan, I soon realized that starting this rewrite on a weekday was just a bad idea because of this family break. Though I don't think that it will be that big of a problem once I get the ball rolling, I know for sure that I need an uninterrupted night to be able to tap into the mindset be able to immerse myself back into the fictional world that I created so long ago.

Once I figure out how to get in there, I usually find it easy to jump back and forth between the two realities which is why I quickly decided to delay may start until the weekend where the rest of the family does their own thing and I have two, mostly uninterrupted days to myself unless my little nephew wants to do some swimming.

It turns out that today also seems to be a better a day to start because I'm in a somber mood after having the story that I'm about to rework bouncing around in my head for a week leading to crazy dreams that have been adding to my inspiration. 

Hopefully, this will be a real productive day but even if I only end up getting to a page or two, I will consider the day a success if a fall asleep feeling like a fiction writer again because right now I feel that my outlook on my efforts is more important than just getting words on paper being that I write for the sake of writing every single day.

Oh well, we'll see what happens and as always, I'll check in tomorrow with what does.

Talk to you then,

The Wicker Breaker