No sooner
had I posted one blog article than I started the next one. Or
Next Several. I am writing a few
extra articles to stay ahead of my planned schedule of posting once a month.
It will be
easier to meet this self-imposed deadline without Facebook eating up my time,
especially my writing time, since I unplugged it in January. For the most part. Except my writing groups. More about that later. Also, I found myself writing about
unnecessary details in Depression, Writers' Group Conferences and Board
Positions, and Blogging Again, so it got too long, and took too long
to post.
In order
to shorten the article and get it posted without more delay, I cut much of what
I originally had to say and saved those notes in OneNote for future blog posts
in which I could cover individual topics in more detail. I also now use OneNote to collect thoughts I
would have otherwise put on Facebook, which I can then expand into fully developed blog articles.
When I
first started getting treated for depression the doc put me on a higher
dose of Prozac for 6 weeks, but with the
side-affects I asked her to lower the dosage.
After I got on the lower dosage the side-affects weren't so bad, and I
was doing nicely and feeling better. I
know it won't be an instantaneous change, but more long and gradual. Sometimes I still have bad days. Sometimes I still have really bad days.
About 2
months on the Prozac, about 2 weeks on the lower dose, I wanted to help at the
conference. But when I saw that we had moved the location, I decided
I needed more time to think about whether or not I wanted to drive that far to
volunteer. Sometimes I still have bad
days.
That was
about the time Mindy called and asked me if I would be willing to come and try
to help with doing the tech stuff at the conference. And to return to the board as the Tech
Coordinator. And so I ended up agreeing
to help at the conference, and to return
to the board.
Agreeing
to help, and being able to help can be two different things. I was extremely stressed getting to the
conference, and several times on the way there I almost called Mindy and told
her I wasn't going to be able to make it.
Sometimes I still have really bad
days. Hence my initial reluctance about
volunteering when I saw the venue had moved.
But we made it through without me walking out as I had done at our
monthly meeting in October 2014.
Sometimes I have really, really bad days.
Blogging
isn't just about sitting down and doing the writing. There's also that little problem of
developing a reader base, presenting a blog that people will want to read. So 3 days after starting this post I started
updating the look of the blog, besides working on several additional articles
for future posts.
Well, I
guess that's it for now dear reader. I
just hope I can keep up my planned monthly posting schedule, as this guy keeps
staring out from my monitor,
if I don't
write.
It's an
effective incentive. So please excuse me
for now. I have notes to turn into blog
articles. And I have Spec Fic to write.
