Even Floridians get the blues
It's hard to imagine that in a state where the sun shines almost every day, a person can get the blues. Unfortunately, it happens.
I grew up in Michigan, a state where it's possible to go days upon days without seeing the sun, especially in the winter. I lived in Maine for a couple of years–more gloomy days, and I lived for fifteen years in Minnesota where it's possible to go weeks without the sun. In fact, it's even possible to forget the sun exists.
So why would a couple of days of rain get me down? It's a combination of things. I've spent the last six months editing first, Dog River Blues (A Wes Darling Mystery)
, and then Weep No More, the book I'll be releasing next month. Here's the cover for the new book:
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I find editing and rewriting to be the hardest part of writing a book. Thankfully, I have my wife Mary to help on the editing, but it's still hard work. Maybe that's why at one in the morning I got the urge to write something new.
I've had a basic idea of how I wanted to start the next book, a Wes Darling book tentatively titled Abaco Blues. So I sat down and wrote the first page of the book. This is unusual for me. On most of my books I write an outline before I start the book. I will most likely write an outline for Abaco Blues, but now I know how the book starts. The outline will have to wait until we get away from the dock and head over to the Bahamas this winter.
And that brings us to the other reason I'm a little down. There's so damn much work to be done on the boat before we can leave. The heavy rain revealed half a dozen new leaks that I have to fix before we can go anywhere. But that's life on a boat.
So now that you realize I've been meandering all over the place with this blog post, maybe you've already figured out the final contributor to my malaise–I just couldn't think of anything to write about today.
What about you the reader? What makes you feel down? Or are you perhaps one of those people that are alway up and perky. If so, how do you do it?
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