I'm sitting here in the sunshine, knowing a major storm is moving this way, and telling myself that enjoying the rays is more important than working on taxes. Or my galley proofs. Or the next e-book. In reality, I have so many tasks on my To Do list that I fear I will never finish a book again--reading or writing one.
It's when I start feeling so overwhelmed with work that I fear my To Do list will fall over and crush me, that I get rebellious and quit doing any of the tasks. I just finished reading all my Rita books and I'm so jaded on romance that I'm looking longingly at a couple of YA books I got at the library. And really, as long as the turkey soup is cooking, I've done my job for the day, right?
Is anyone else feeling unaccountably buried in work these days? What is your escapist fantasy?
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Hey, Pat! I'm burned out on romance, too. Reading them, anyway. The romance "language" all starts to run together after a while. Which I find strange because even though I have to lay off reading them, I can still write them. Go figure.
As of the first of the year, I loaded myself up with such a schedule that, yeah, I feel a little overwhelmed some days. My escapist fantasy is simple. For the longest time now, I've fantasized about floating in a clear, blue body of water. Just floating and buoyant. Hmm. I think there might be something Freudian in there somewhere.
I still have romance stories to tell, but I'm not finding many to read. Maybe we've hit some new transition that I haven't adapted to yet.
Yeah, I think that's a lovely Freudian escapist fantasy. "G"
And I don't know why every blogger blog on the block recognizes me except my own. Sigh.
I haven't burned out on regency romances yet. I still love them and can't get enough of them. I can still find a lot of new ones to read, although some of the ones by my favorite authors no longer do anything for me.
Linda, I'm glad you're still finding good Regencies to read. I have so little time to hunt new authors that I'm just growing jaded, I suspect. And I have a wandering mind that requires new adventures, new subjects, new ideas, and I'm not seeing any of that in the Regencies I'm reading. So I'm prone to pick up anything that looks "different."
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