TAKING a BREAK from WRITING

     Lately, I have not been in a writing mood. I really can't explain why that is exactly the case. It could be because I've felt the need to change the name of my book to protect the possibility of upsetting those who have family or loved ones in the actual cemetery that I was going to have my character live in, but I think it's something else, too. I just don't know what it could be. I'm not in the mood to write.

    I got the outline written. I know what I'm going to say, and I know what I'm going to write, but I don't feel like doing it just yet. There isn't a reason; there isn't a problem. I just don't want to do it. I'll take off a few more weeks and write three or four books in 2025. Maybe I won't write another one. This entire year will be about the one book I finished...but I doubt it. I doubt that statement. I'm lying to you and myself if I could mean it.

    Writing does take all day when I do it. I start around 10 or 11 and work til about 4 or 5 in the evening. I usually write at least three chapters a day when I write. I even told myself that this time, it would be a weekend thing, where I only wrote on the weekends. I'm just in the mood to not write. I think I'll pick it up again; I know I will, but not now. I have no real reason that I can pin down -- or pen down. LOL.

    I just happen to want to watch Midsomer Murders on Prime, and since they have 24 seasons....you know, I could be there for a while. I hope to gain from them. Not every show online has at least three grisly murders in each episode! I take that back; there was one episode that only featured a single murder! That was crazy!  If you haven't seen the show you should watch it -- Prime on Amazon. The time frame is from 1999-2011, I think -- or maybe 1997-2011 -- but there about. So, the little baby in season 8, born in 2001, has already graduated college by now! WHAT? (I Googled)

    Well, anyway, that's me in a nutshell, telling you that I'm not writing, but I haven't given up murder - no, I'm still watching it and thinking about how I can use lines and thoughts from what I see and hear -- I do that. I recycle. At least I don't plagiarize. I do change it up a bit -- I'm not completely barbaric, just enough rough around the edges to be considered suspect.

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