Update On Me and "The Door"

How are things coming along with your next novel, "The Door"?

I've been hearing that a fair amount lately and I can tell you that last weekend I added another 2000 words to it.  This brought the total word count to just shy of 19,000.  A pretty good number, don't you think?  I'm proud of it.  

Unfortunately when Sunday arrived so did something else, my Fibromyalgia.  

It flared up with a vengeance and at first I wasn't even really sure it was the Fibro acting up.  I thought I might be coming down with a bug a or something.  But as the day progressed and became Monday I knew better.  There were no other flu or cold symptoms, just fatigue, pain and severe clumsiness which erupted when I least expected it.

So I was forced to take a few steps back and slow down on what I could do.  I knew from experience that I'd have to budget my time and energies so as not to wipe myself out each day.  I stuck to the most important tasks such as attending classes and doing homework, as well as taking care of the usual tasks around the house.  Normally this would have allowed me to have some energies to call upon for being creative.  However, life had other ideas.  

Almost every day there was some new crisis for me to contend with that I had to use what little reserves I had available, which left me severely depleted and frustrated.  

Even typing this entry is taking a bit out of me, but I felt it was important enough to let you all know what's been happening.  I hope to get at least some writing done this weekend, but that partly depends on how much schoolwork is dumped on me before today is out.  

However I remain optimistic that I can make some kind of progress on the story.  I don't know how much, but damn it I need a little victory like that sometimes.  I'm surprised the Fibro is being so relentless this time, usually it calms down in a few days, but I seem to be in 'Flare' which may last a couple of weeks.  

So please bear with me if I don't post as much, I'm trying to save what energies I have to do the most necessary things.  I'll be okay in the end, I always am.  I only ask for your patience.

Thanks again and please take care of yourselves and keep writing.