Wow, where has the month gone? Despite the fact that we got an extra day in February this year, it still slipped by much faster than I’d expected. And I still got much less done than I’d hoped.
Part of this is because I got sick for a few days around mid-month. It wasn’t anything horrible, but there was about a week where all I had the energy to do was work and sleep. I’m enjoying the new job, but not that much; unfortunately, though, since it’s the part of my life that pays the bills, it’s the part that gets first dibs on my energy.
The other thing that hit my productivity was encountering the first bout of really bad writer’s block I’ve had in a while. I got seriously stuck on Chapter 3 of “Local Attractions,” and by the time I got unstuck I’d rewritten it, from scratch, three times. There were points where I was seriously tempted to give up.
But I did get through, and the subsequent chapters are flowing much easier. This means I’m hoping I’ll be able to make some more significant progress, on a number of things, in March. I can always hope, right?
