It may seem that I have fallen off the 60-day writing program I put myself on. I have not. It has just been that the day job with its incessant output of email writing required of me has left me so mentally exhausted that I am incapable of putting together coherent sentences of personal “creative” writing. It occurs that one’s expressive output cannot happen every day without a rest. Furthermore, there needs to be a certain amount of input to fuel the output.
I suppose that such a refueling could be binge-watching old I Love Lucy episodes (well, actually lately for me it’s been The Big Bang Theory) or watching endless hours of cat videos on Youtube (actually for me it is cooking videos). But instead the best way I have chosen to refuel is re-reading (or rather re-listening to) Anne Lamott’s book on writing, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. I consider this one of the best books on writing ever written.
Here’s a little something to uplift you.