Still under the weather

It seems like things take longer to get over the older I get. I made the mistake of going to work yesterday. I figured I could get something done, even if I were at half-power. It turned out to be a pretty productive day.

The nighttime coughing is a mother. I’m getting very little sleep. Cough drops seem to help, but barely. Food is starting to taste better, but I’ve eaten next to nothing this past week. I forced myself to eat a sandwich today, just because I should.

I have things to do, and it’s frustrating to have a damper put on my abilities. Maybe a bit of context is needed.

At work, I have specific goals for my projects. A certain amount of focus is already built into the system. It helps to simply be able to work through the task and stay on the path.

Writing here is always fairly simple too. It’s usually a simple update of some kind. What have I been working on, maybe a task list, that kind of thing.

Story Empire is a bit different. I have three posts to write for March. Our goal there is to help our fellow authors. I try to take things a bit more seriously over there. I try.

Today, I spent all day writing one post for Story Empire. Without this cold, I would have all three of them done by noon. I just want the posts to be helpful, and simple to understand. That seems to be the part of my brain that’s drowning in phlegm.

If nothing else, I bought myself a week at Story Empire.

I also have three other obligations on behalf of other authors. My sense of honor requires me to work on these before anything else. That’s kind of where the issue lies. I don’t want to let them down if my creativity is off a bit.

This means I will dedicate any abilities I have this weekend to helping my friends. It may take three times longer than normal, but I owe them that much. Any editing, personal blog tours, or online convention tasks for myself will have to wait. Obviously, it isn’t a good time for new words of fiction.

I may be moving slow, but I’m doing what I can.