Instead of fearing the blank screen, I'm just going to move my fingers and just write whatever comes to my mind.
At the moment, I'm taking care of a personal issue that requires a lot of time and attention to detail. What I can say about it is, now's the time to take care of it. It's not a bad thing. In fact, it's normal; I just have to find something that works for me. I didn't foresee the few years of trial and error. prior to this.
As can be expected, this takes me away from my full writing schedule, working on even more of The Unknown, Beautiful Missing Piece. Instead, I've been writing in my journal.
If you don't know me by now, you'll now learn I'd likely write about 4-5 pages, front and back, in one sitting, most days of the week. Although we're fully in the digital age, I'm ever more thankful they still make 120-page composition books and pens. This nearly daily verbal dumping keeps my mind and creativity active, I'm still creating things, thinking of new ideas. They may not be anything related to my novels in progress. Perhaps publishing a novel wasn't in my plans this year. However, I know once the stress of this personal issue subsides, I'll be an even better writer than before.
P.S. I really tried to write all this without thinking about the flow. I foresee writing with much more abandonment on my novels in progress as a result of writing like this in my journal.
P.P.S. I went back and revised this post--only one time.
