A Rebuilding Season for A Writer

What does that mean?  A rebuilding season for a writer.

Everyone at some point in life or several points may go through this.  You have a year with illness, deaths in the family, being a care provider, loss of job or home or moving, divorce, retirement.  These are all high stress events in anyone's life.  They signal a drastic change.

What do you do when one or more of these events hit in a single year?  As a writer, how do you survive?

Remember this one thing:  You're still alive.  You have that going for you!

When in pain, whether it's physical or emotional, go portable and if necessary go low tech.  Get a notebook and write.  Imagine that you're Robinson Crusoe on a deserted island and you're going to write the most entertaining book to entertain yourself and leave pain or sadness behind.

I won't get into the nitty-gritty but for me this is a rebuilding season.  Much like a team that has suffered injuries and other setbacks and losses, I'm honing my craft and building a stockpile of  my work, getting all the bits and pieces together.  Resting, recovering, restoring and improving.  That's what rebuilding is all about.  Life will always throw challenges in our path.  I look at them as the building blocks for the next book.

So if you too are having a rebuilding season, I'm rooting for you!

–Susan

Susan Hanniford Crowley

http://www.susanhannifordcrowley.com

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