Writerly Musings

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Writing Under the Weather

I'm not sure what has managed to take hold of my family this past week but we've all been sick, ill (tempered that is), or a combination of the two. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not the most pleasant person to be around when I'm not feeling well. You know the old saying "If mamma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy." Well, there haven't been many happy people in my house since about last Wednesday.

I think this is perhaps the one thing I truly miss about working outside the home...the idea of dropping the kids off at daycare and calling in sick to work tomorrow. Unfortunately, I have deadlines, no daycare, and it really wouldn't matter if I called in sick or not because I'm the boss and there is no one to 'cover my shift'. So I ramble on writing sentences and paragraphs all the while hoping that the words I write make more sense to those on the reading end than they are making to me as I write them.

I'm planning for tomorrow to be a better day. It's the beginning of a new week and I'm determined (perhaps it's the cough syrup working) that positive thinking will do the trick. At any rate, I'm ever so curious as to what tips and tricks other writes use when facing the dilemma of 'fuzzy head and swimming words syndrome?' Do you press on in hopes that your martyrdom will earn you a nice pair of fuzzy slippers in heaven or do you give in to your deeper urges and load up on the Nyquil and hide beneath the covers hoping the world won't realize you're gone?

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