My Creative Self has ADD

Here I sit, once again, in my night T-shirt……….. and it’s 2 o’clock in the afternoon. 

It was just fifteen minutes ago (six hours ago) that I sat down to read and respond to email while my morning tea brewed.

As I was replying to my mail, a new author interview response came in and I couldn’t wait to read it and prepare it for my blog calendar .  

I just finished (and published) a new short play, Date Night.  As I mentioned before I write things in my head for several days, then slam it down on paper, (in my case, computer screen), and then I begin editing.  It was a tough one (of the 40+ plays I’ve published) to write because I had never purposefully written a satire before now. 

An idea for another true crime mystery (in the series) had bubbled up several months ago and I pushed it away…..’Go away, wait a bit, I’ve got enough to do….’  but it is insistent!  I’m playing with that too. 

And then I began to write this posting in my head …….and then thought of a few more authors I want to contact to ask them for an interview….see? bona fide ADD.

Is this cerebral chaos  a bad thing?…I don’t think so…it seems to work for me.   I wanted to tell you just how crazed my writing life can be so that any pressure you might be feeling will ease.  There is no right or wrong way to how we work when we are writing.  The most important thing is to keep writing, every day if you can, even if you think what you are writing is not important; it just might  be someday.   I think , after twelve years of  interviewing  other authors, that fact is shining through.

…….so guess I’d better go shower, eat something, play with the dogs, (a tennis ball is calling) and turn off my brain for awhile.  HA!  Fat chance of that!!   P.S. My tea is cold.
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