So I was scrolling through my Facebook feed and stumbled across this: Sweet-Ass Affirmations 2 / A Card Deck for Creative Maniacs . Of course I was intrigued. I followed the link, and discovered something truly awesome. It’s an affirmation deck, which is cool. Now I don’t currently own any, nor have I really delved into them before, but hey, there’s a first time for everything. But what got my muse all a-flutter was the idea of fun and play and creative and mania and bringing out the joy in life – because, c’mon now, we all need that, but for me, I’ve been thinking about this VERY THING.
It’s like the Universe is giving me a gentle nudge. Synchronicity. Because I was just thinking that I needed to make my writing fun again. I’ve been struggling for weeks on my novella. I’m in the process of loosely plotting it, building a bit of a roadmap to follow, as is my process, and I’ve found myself horribly stuck. The idea was exciting and interesting and fun months ago when I thought of it. Now? It just feels like work. It could be that everything these days feels like work. Work’s been crazy, my sleep is still not right, I haven’t been feeling good about anything, the pandemic has been getting me down (we’re still not out of the woods, but that’s another post), and I just feel very….hopeless? Pointless? Crappy? Right now. I can’t even put my finger on it, but it’s not good. So I suppose it could just be a manifestation of that too.
Anyway, the idea perked up my muse and me, and made me see things a bit differently. I went through this before. Back in 2011, just prior to writing Fey Touched. (Shameless plug: It is free right now!) I’d beaten another book into the ground for about ten years and the love just died and several writer friends suggested I work on a “for-fun” novel instead to bring the love and joy back. That was Fey Touched. And here’s a little secret: it was never supposed to be published, but after I’d finished it, I realized it was pretty damn good, and it was worth experimenting with self-publishing through TDP, and here we are. It also led to two more novels, Grave Touched and Ever Touched.
Naturally, I backed it the deck, even though I’m on a deck ban (lol, whatever) because it looks like just what I need to get myself out of this whatever-it-is. I saw some of the cards, and I already love it. I just hope it funds! Please, check it out. If you like it, and can afford the lowest tier, back it! It’s not too pricey. It’s one of the lower Kickstarter decks I’ve seen, actually.
Sometimes we need something to give us a push, something to get us out of the funk we’re in, the mundane, the routine, the mechanical (as Adam Lambert says), the day-to-day crap. Sometimes we need to remember that there’s a spirit inside our bodies that needs to be fed a very different kind of sustenance — laughter, warmth, love, and, most of all, fun.