Encouragement for the Dull Days

Hi friends! Happy Wednesday. I’m excited to have the fabulous Jaime Jo Wright sharing with us today. I love her encouragement, and really, who can’t use a little encouragement for those dull days! Hope you enjoy her thoughtful post.

It’s that time of year again. It rolls around once every six months. That moment I stare at a blank screen, cursor blinking, and a new story trolling around in my brain.

That’s me today. I have the general gist of what the story is about, but now it’s time to fill in all the blanks in between. The scenes, the conversations, the characters.

My cat Foo is staring at me from his slothful existence on my bed. (Actual photo) He does this often. A look of sheer exasperation at me. “Really, is writing that difficult?”

Yes. Yes, it is, Foo. Sometimes, in fact, like today, dragging words from my brain is about as insurmountable as climbing Mt. Everest without oxygen. Imminent death.

I think we all can relate. Really. Because whether you’re a writer or something else, we, as humans, must produce. It’s part of daily life. A production line intended to feed our creativity, pay our bills, keep our mini-humans alive, and so on. The idea of coming up against a day where you really just want to crawl back into bed and sleep is not a strange idea to any of us.

So! How do I combat days like today?

I SLEEP! No joke. You all think I’m kidding, don’t you? Nope. Not at all. I just took fifteen minutes and laid down, with Foo, and snuggled. I closed my eyes. Rested. Allowed myself the freedom to just not produce anything but zzz’s. Was it enough time? No. Do I feel better for it? Yep!I Push myself. Yep. We all do that, I think. But it helps me to map out what I need to do versus what I want to accomplish. Once I’ve written that down, then I attack the things I need to do so if that’s all I get done, at least I’m not going to bed tonight stressed.

Really, it’s not a rocket science two-step process. I guess the point of this blog post is more to say, I GET IT! I really, really do. We aren’t alone in our dull days. So let’s pull together and encourage one another. That’s my goal for 2022. To be as big of an encouragement as I can be to others!

How may I encourage you today?