“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
Writing doldrums sometimes create unexpected good outcomes. It might be that you play with your writing schedule and find a block of time you didn’t know you had. And at the same time, ideas for new or half-forgotten projects might shake loose.
As well, when energy for your work in progress flags, a different genre sometimes beckons. A literary author finds a gateway to speculative fiction. A mystery writer pens a thriller or a romantic comedy. An essayist writes a song, and maybe that’s the only song the essayist will ever write. Still, that song changes forever the way the writer approaches future essays.
One of our greatest statesmen has said that a change of work is the best rest. So it is.
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four
Here’s to another brilliant week in your writing career.
Cheers, Mel.
Mel Anastasiou is a founding editor at Pulp Literature Press.
Mel’s novel Stella Ryman and the Fairmount Manor Mysteries was long listed for the 2018 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. Thanks for that, lovely to hear.
Coming Soon from Pulp Literature Press, Mel Anastasiou’s The Extra, A Monument Studios Mystery. Frankie Ray… The Sleuth With Star Quality.
Mel Anastasiou writes The Fairmount Manor Mysteries series, starring Mrs Stella Ryman, The Hertfordshire Pub Mysteries series, starring Spencer Stevens, and The Monument Studios Mysteries, starring Frankie Ray and Connie Mooney.
Get Mel’s pocket-sized writing guide, The Writer’s Boon Companion: Thirty Days Towards an Extraordinary Volume, here.
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