Back in the saddle again

I'm back
I'm back in the saddle again
I'm back
I'm back in the saddle again

Didn't Aerosmith have some great lyrics back then?

I just experienced the longest dry spell of my short-lived writing career. Sure wasn't any fun. But this week I started my next article for Writer2Writer--the monthly ezine that made me a staff member a couple months ago. I also began focusing on how to revise my short story set in Mexico so that I can work on it in earnest next week.

I reviewed my goals yesterday too. I can't tell you how great it feels to be setting goals and working towards completing items on my to-do list. Of course, if you've ever gone through a dry spell of your own, I'm sure I don't need to explain to you what it's like when the creative rains bless the dusty, parched soil of your brain and allow words to flow from your fingers onto the river of paper laying beside your nightstand.

Writers are such a diverse group of individuals. Some say they never go through periods of not being able to write. I am insanely jealous. It stinks to know you have so many ideas rattling around in your head but you have no will or desire to put them to paper--even knowing they could help you pay the bills. And then there are others who go through this kind of inability to write and manage to find a way around it. They force themselves to write, even when they don't want to. I wish I were that kind of writer. But, I'm one of those who has to wait out the dry spell and happily greet the replenishing rains when they come.

So, I am officially back in the saddle again. Setting goals and writing my way towards completing my to-do list. If I really had to tell you what it feels like, I would have to borrow more words from Aerosmith.

I'm calling all the shots tonight
I'm like a loaded gun...
I'm back in the saddle again
I'm back

Cheryl