Barreling Through

I don't necessarily subscribe to Writer's Block (WB) as a Thing. One can work thru it or not. It's a choice to do or do not.
— Jason Arnett (@ajasont) March 28, 2015

The last month or so has been an extremely trying time. Lots of stress and obligations piling up like a damned mountain. I couldn't write.
— Jason Arnett (@ajasont) March 28, 2015

The sweet spot was @planet_comicon where I got to relax and write Velocity Readouts for folks who thought writer's sketches were cool ideas.
— Jason Arnett (@ajasont) March 28, 2015

Strangers giving me prompts was liberating. I didn't have to think too hard but just enough to create something quickly. I wasn't blocked.
— Jason Arnett (@ajasont) March 28, 2015

The issue was I couldn't concentrate long enough on larger works. Even reading stuff by my friends wouldn't have gotten proper attention.
— Jason Arnett (@ajasont) March 28, 2015

Hell, reading novels wasn't possible. Personal stuff got in the way of just about everything. It didn't prevent me thinking, only writing.
— Jason Arnett (@ajasont) March 28, 2015

With the stress levels declining, I'm able to come back to things that've been ignored for four, five, six weeks or more. I'm really behind.
— Jason Arnett (@ajasont) March 28, 2015

That brings a whole other level of stress. Self imposed deadlines loom LARGE. If I'm going to make it, I've got to put nose to grindstone.
— Jason Arnett (@ajasont) March 28, 2015

Which will be easy to do now that things are much more back to 'normal'. So I guess what this is all about is that life gets in the way.
— Jason Arnett (@ajasont) March 28, 2015

And when life gets in the way, falling back on an excuse to not write is a bad thing. Shifting gears and focus can help. It has me, anyway.
— Jason Arnett (@ajasont) March 28, 2015

There's a big pile of things that aren't done that should be and new things are coming in too. It would be easy to give up and meltdown.
— Jason Arnett (@ajasont) March 28, 2015

But all these things matter to me. A LOT. I can do this, I have support on all sides. I'm gonna have to rely on that and understanding.
— Jason Arnett (@ajasont) March 28, 2015

You can do it too. Don't give up. Set things aside but don't stop thinking. Distract yourself with small things writing- and reading-wise.
— Jason Arnett (@ajasont) March 28, 2015

You're not blocked. You're buffering. #amwriting
— Jason Arnett (@ajasont) March 28, 2015

At some point tomorrow I will come back and annotate this to expand on a couple of things I didn't in the Tweets. As you can see it went on for a while. Anyway, collected here for the benefit of whoever could get some use out of it.