Writing with Chronic Illness
I have a chronic condition. Basically, this means that I cannot count on having good weeks, able to be productive, and writing every day. I will have a good week, with maybe a few days thrown in for good measure. However, being healthy for at least fourteen days in a row, well, that hasn’t happened in years.
What am I dealing with? Hormones run amok, for the most part. I have great hope that some year, my hormones will calm down and I’ll stop having meh days.
Until then, I deal with it as if it’s a chronic illness because that’s what it looks and behaves as.
I’ve blogged about this before, but I figured I’d try to pull all my thoughts into a single piece, for those of you who are struggling as I have been. One of the things I’d suggest, picking up Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s book on the topic as well: Writing with Chronic Illness.
A lot of writers will tell you that you must write every day. That may or may not be possible given your condition. I cannot write every day. I’d like to be able to. Believe me, I write as often as I can. (My regular monthly word count goal is 50K words per month.) And it always, always makes me angry when I can’t write. I frequently have been thinking about whatever story I’m working on, and I…
