Hi, I feel like a huge freaking failure today

How I deal when zero of my projects are moving forward

Happy (?) Monday, friends. I had an entire separate craft post 90% written and just had to add a quick intro and headline, and…I couldn’t do it. I can’t! Last week was A Week, personally and professionally, and while I’m very aware of how lucky, loved, and privileged I am, the onslaught left my tank empty.

And then I thought: I’m going to tell you about it. All the ways I feel like a failed author right now. Because my vow with Get It Write is radical honesty, and trying to put on a happy face—the face I’m still presenting on Reels, the face that still has me riddling emails with perkiness and exclamation marks!!!—totally sugarcoats the reality of Authoring. Yes, I want this to be an encouraging, uplifting, non-miserable space, but I’m not going to fake it today.

If you can’t deal with a privileged white lady being a Debbie Downer about her creative career today (which I completely understand!), please skip today’s post. xo (Photo by cottonbro studio)

Some of this is confidential-ish, because the projects aren’t public. And I’ll say one more time that I’m so freaking lucky to be a professional author, and I acknowledge that these are problems many writers would kill to have. (Hey, Andi-of-ten-years-ago would’ve killed to have these struggles!) But I’m going to bare it all, along with how I plan to keep moving forward. Ready? Okay, in no particular order, in the last seven days…