Energy.

My classroom is clean. Books are organized. Desks are arranged. Lesson plans are starting to fill up the little boxes in the plan book.

Yet, my writing has stopped.

I only possess a certain amount of creative energy in me. Sometimes when I use it, it generates more. Most of the time, however, when I use it I wind up using it up. Which is why, even though I want to sit and write, I cannot at this moment. All of my energy is being poured into my classroom to get it ready for this school year. And this kills me. I feel like I am losing my focus on this project. I just need to allow myself to take a break until this week is over. Then, I need to sit down with my schedule book and find a good three hours a week that can be mine all mine for this project. I will NOT let it go!

Oh, how I wish to have more days of summer!

"The best antidote to writer's block is ... to write."
~Henriette Anne Klauser

Update at 8:11 pm: Writing this inspired me. So I sat down and, despite the fact I came home mentally exhausted, wrote. I have just completed Chapter 5.