Too ill to Write

I've been out of action for a few days now. I came down with some sort of wretched virus that has had me flat on my back since last Saturday.

Thankfully I'm almost back to full health now but I'm still finding it hard (impossible) to breathe through my nose.

The biggest problem with beling ill, though, was boredom.

Bored! Bored! Bored!

We have a cable TV channel called TV Hits and I watched it constantly for days. NCIS, CSI, The Mentalist, Law & Order and lots of other crime shows, one straight after the other, all day every day.

I slept on and off and dozed through nearly every episode.

Bored! Bored! Bored!

Then 2 days ago I felt well enough to sit up (which had been a struggle for a few days) and do limited work on the computer before my eyes began to stream. My creative spark seemed to have been extinguished so writing was out of the question.

But what I found was that it was a good time to do catch up work.

Taking a Break From Writing

Writing is great. I can sit and do it for hours.

But not without breaks.

I find that if I sit and write for too long, my creativity wains.

There are times when I'm working in a huge window of inspiration (and I just love those times) and I can just go and go. But I always regret it later because I get dehydrated from not having a drink.

I also notice that on a usual day of writing, taking breaks makes me much more creative.

Kindle Has Changed Self Publishing Forever

Self Publishing used to be hard.

In the 'old' days you had to have your books printed and shipped, and you had to pay for it all yourself.

And getting your books into book stores was hard.

Not only that but self published authors were ridiculed by other writers as not being 'proper' authors.

Then along came Kindle Publishing and BANG!

It all changed.

Now there are thousands of self published authors all over the world.

And Kindle publishing is free to do.

You can sit at home writing one book after another and know that every single one of them will be published and made available for sale all over the world.

And you don't have to print or ship or pack anything.

Once you publish your Kindle books, that's it. There's nothing more to do.

In fact Amazon is pretty good at helping to market your book.

And if you have dozens of published Kindle books, you have even more chance of making sales.

So if you haven't joined the Kindle publishing revolution yet, why not?

Kindle publishing really has changed self publishing forever.

These Can Really Help to Kick Your Writing Into High Gear

If you're serious about writing professionally, following your writing passion and earning a living as a writer then you should already be there.

If you aren't then it's time to do something about about it and I mean do something really radical that you haven't tried before.

Remember what Einstein said about insanity? He said it's doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

If you want to write but you're not doing so or you are writing but not doing the writing you want to do OR not doing enough of it or making enough money, try any of these resources to help you get going to where you want to be: