Getting back on track after derailment

I wish I knew why it’s so hard to start writing again after a break, but it is every time. After a break while I did freelance work and then battled the sickies, it’s been hard to dive back into my story but I’m doing so tonight. May just start out with a couple of pages, but it seems that if I just write something one day it’s always easier to pick up the next. If I go more than a day or two without writing, it’s easy to just fall into the habit of doing other things (oh, say, surfing the Internet and watching Buffy episodes for instance) and avoiding the manuscript-in-progress. It’s just such a strange phenomenon that we writers will avoid writing even though we like being writers. I know I’ve wished more than once that I could just plug into my brain and download the stories in my head, which inevitably are more perfect there than when they seep out the ends of my fingers onto the computer keyboard. If we could figure out what the disconnect between brain and computer is, we’d certainly have things a lot easier.

Watched the prom episode of Buffy tonight and am not ashamed to admit I shed tears.

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