Picking Up Where I left Off

Today I feel better than I had been feeling for the past 3-4 days. I had some kind of mild contractions in my stomach which caused frequent visits to the bathroom. In between, I had the chills which forced me to take Nurofen every 6 hours or so because I did not want to visit the doctor. I believe some kind of virus must have assaulted me and caused chaos in my tummy, leaving me listless, lethargic with not much of an appetite. Unproductive would also be an accurate way of describing the condition I was in.

Not that I had been doing anything very much before this. During the last few months, my attempt at writing short stories got derailed somewhat for no apparent reason other than procrastination and lack of motivation. I had come to a point when I was questioning if I should be writing at all. I mean, what's the point? I had not been making any headway so far. Despite the amount of reading up on the craft, through books and websites, I was nowhere near to knowing if I was on the right track. All that information makes me more confused and frustrated. 

Postings on my Instagram and Twitter have been sluggish too lately. Perhaps I'm lacking material to make up the content? I have treated these platforms as my writing outlet. I may not be able to write at length there, but the postings still require some thought to put them into a readable and coherent form.

The only thing I kept going was reading. Maybe I was meant to be a reader, not a writer! I had bought some books on my last trip to the UK in April, and I have been catching up on those. Then of course the arrival of "The Billion Dollar Whale" on Malaysian shores this week cast everything else aside. I finished the almost 400-page book within 2 days. Once I started on it, it wasn't easy to put it down. Could be due to a couple of reasons, not least of which, the subject matter! First - it is readable with clear and easy-to-understand language. In view of the subject matter, which could be daunting to a non-financial person like me, perhaps it was the intention of the writers to break it down into more comprehensible terms. They certainly succeeded there. I've no intention of doing a review of the book here, but suffice to say, it is a good read - believe it or not!