Overwhelmed - again!

It would be nice if I actually wrote an article before I posted the blog. If you checked this out early you'll know what I mean. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, I posted the final paragraph about "You'll also want to see what other authors are doing" and nothing else. I've been feeling overwhelmed again. I'm sure there are a lot of factors. I hadn't had my Lexapro in 2 or 3 weeks. I'm under the gun of 2 big edts and having another whole story to write due. I've been down with asthma and bronchitis. The kids, in particular DD2, want me to run them places right and left. The Softball Team's Booster Club is on our back about helping out more and most of it's during my work hours when I can't take off from the day job. I feel bad for not volunteering more with the softball team but I'm way behind in my writing job as it is. I finally finished one big edit yesterday (first round anyway) which is a relief. However, that still leaves another big edit and a story to finish writing. And have I exercised? Even once this week? Even once in the past month? Have I even used the bathing suit I bought two or three months ago? All big NOs. I want to but then I feel guilty that I'm ignoring the writing. Yeah, I have a problem about feeling guilty too much. A few years back I decided to get healthy and I exercised and dieted all the time and ignored the writing/promoting. Then I hardly put out any books. My career took a nosedive. But I got thin and my cholesterol came down. But I can't seem to manage to hold the day job and do enough exercise and writing all at the same time. Not with kids still at home anyway. Not when half my time off the day job is at softball games or taxiing kids to their activities. Yikes! I don't mean to whine. I'm just annoyed with myself for not working this out better. For perhaps taking breaks to watch American Idol instead of breaks to walk. AI is pretty much my one guilty pleasure. That and too much KFC. Hubby just pointed out it's time to pick up the daughter from her friend's house where she stayed overnight so we can take her to guess where -- yep, softball practice again. Today it's batting practice. Tomorrow night is a game. I'm going to be good and WALK during her practice. And afterwards I'm going to camp out at Borders again to write. I wish the library was open late because I'd go there instead. The library has privacy cubicles with power hookups in every one and there's no tempting food to make me spend money and calories. You'll also want to see what Amarinda Jones, Anika Hamilton, Anny Cook, Barbara Huffert, Brynn Paulin, Bronwyn Green, Dakota Rebel, Kelly Kirch, Molly Daniels, Sandra Cox, Regina Carlysle, and Cindy Spencer Pape are up to, so make sure to visit them also. :)

Purple Prose

Gawd! I've been accused of writing purple prose. Coupled with the fact I've not taken my Lexapro for a few weeks, this got me pretty depressed. Guess I'm a drama queen, too. At least when I'm not high on a Lexapro cocktail. Was that purple prose? Oi! Guess I'll have to write simple. KISS. I looked up "purple prose" and found several definitions: cliched writing writing that's hard to read prose that makes you wince stilted prose overcooked prose writing that tries too hard being too descriptive (this one's funny in regards to me as my critique partners usually tell me I need a lot more description) using big words I feel like pulling a Rimbaud. Arthur Rimbaud was a nineteenth Century poet who gave up his creative writing career before he turned 21. Okay, I'm not a genius like Rimbaud, and I'm a LOT older than 21. I'm also not having a gay affair (or any affair). But do I have the heart to keep writing? What else would I want to do instead? Maybe I'll feel better after the Lexapro sets in. Or maybe I'll feel better if I gorge myself on chocolate. The second seems to work for my daughter. Okay, I know I'm being a drama queen. It's a well known equation: The less Lexapro I input, the more drama I output (and vice versa). I somehow manage to keep the drama down at the day job, but that's about all I can manage sans the drugs. This is the first time in a long time I've fallen back on my intake. I can't let it happen again. I feel like a different version of myself without it. You'll also want to see what Amarinda Jones, Anika Hamilton, Anny Cook, Barbara Huffert, Brynn Paulin, Bronwyn Green, Dakota Rebel, Kelly Kirch, Molly Daniels, Sandra Cox, Regina Carlysle, and Cindy Spencer Pape are up to, so make sure to visit them also. :)