Injuries Degrade Will to Write

I never would have thought that getting injured would directly affect my will to write. Not that I got injured in the upper torso at all. No arm or hand injury. No, I tripped and fell back on October 12, 2010, tearing the tendon from my right kneecap. Now, six weeks later after surgery, the cast is off and I'm wearing a physio brace. The pain in my knee is sometimes excruciating and the popping of pills only brings the threshold down one notch. Walking with a walker is slow.

Although I can now sleep in my own bed, which my wife is finally grateful for, I was relegated to the couch. I have my laptop here but whenever I tried to write, the desire, drive, and push was not there. Whether it was from the injury itself or the psychological side effects of it, I don't know. But my writing has suffered and has fallen behind what I would have liked to be at right now.

But now I have decided to press on and write. I have to. As a writer I have to keep writing. I need to keep writing. Rejection slips or not, I need to write, I need to get my work out there, I need the money coming in. Regardless of how "writer's block" occurs, a writer must overcome it somehow and continue to practice their art. "If you don't write it, it won't get written!"