I believe the jet lag has hit. It’s 4pm local time. I got up 7 hours ago, made some coffee, ate some breakfast, did 20 minutes of yoga, and went back to bed – and have been in and out of sleep ever since.
With the exception of drawing a bunch of animals inside a 2” x 2” box, and drawing a bunch of animals escaping a 2” x 2” box (thank you, Nick Banktok)- I have not done anything creative today. I haven’t written a sentence. Or made a plan for my book. I have not even created a note card or put a post it on the wall.
I have stared out the window at a bunch of trees and tried to see the sea through them (I imagine the sea is behind them, even though I know that directly behind the trees is farmland). I have spent the greatest amount of time on this activity today – approx 3 hours.
I want to create today. But my head is so fuzzy. I am in Finland to write my book. I have a half baked plan. But for the most part this book is writing itself. And sometimes I feel like it doesn’t even need me to participate. Today is one of those days. Not that the book resents me. But I do feel like all I do is hold a pen in my hand. And then the characters take over – and the pen starts moving, and i don’t even know what is happening. And I would be doing that exact thing right now, except that I am too tired to sit in a proper chair.
Hopefully one more night of sleep will get me to feel somewhat normal, and then I can start being productive.
*No tea consumed yet. But my creative prompt for the day is to spend 5 minutes sipping tea. So a creative act may actually be accomplished today after all.
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