I’m excited. I’m finally excited.
Writing has taken a back seat for a while. Since early last fall, I kind of stuck myself in a rut. I wrote some short stories that I submitted (and waited patiently to hear back about), and I read through and polished some things that I’d written before, but I after a while I felt like I kind of fell off the wagon. I lost my mojo. I wasn’t… producing.
All winter I haven’t written a single thing.
I’ve hardly even written any blog posts.
And it bothered me. It wasn’t that I wasn’t doing things – one of the main reasons I wasn’t writing was because I was trying to get through things I’d already written, things I had lying around that needed revisions and editing.
Yet…
That often doesn’t feel as valuable, know what I mean? It doesn’t feel like it counts.
And that makes me feel like I’m not doing enough. Like I’m not moving forward and putting in enough effort.
It took a friend of mine to ask me what I was working on this year to make realize that all of that is just bullshit.
He asked, and I answered: “Well, not much really. Haven’t been doing much of anything lately.”
I thought about it for a second. “Though there’s 2-3 books that I’m waiting to hear back about from interested publishers. Oh, and I have another one I’m querying. And I’m revising this other thing that someone wanted to have a look at.”
My friend hesitated for a moment. I noticed him staring at me.
“What?”
“That’s not ‘not much’! That’s tons of things! No wonder you’re not writing anything new these days, how could you?”
It seems so logical now that I say it to myself out loud. No idea how I didn’t see it myself, but he’s right. Of course he’s right. Like I said, all of what I was feeling was just bullshit. Just me failing to see that there are many parts to writing, to being creative in any kind of arts. It’s not just about making the thing. It’s about finding a will to make the thing, about show people the thing, about putting yourself out there, and about finishing all the things you started. I’m sure you’re probably just like me sometimes.
When I finally realized all of that, it made me be excited again. Very excited.
I’m not sure if I’ll be producing a lot of new things in 2024. But I’ve written a lot of stuff over the years, and hopefully some of all of that will see the light of day instead. I can’t wait to share it with all of you.
Of course, if you’d like to check out some of the things I’ve already made, you can always find all my books and stories here: www.trey-stone.com/books. If crime thrillers and psychological twists is what you’re into, I dare say you’ll enjoy my work. I really appreciate the support and I love hearing back from excited readers.
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Trey Stone, Author 