I’ve spent at least a couple of hours a day most days since Christmas trying to work out a plan and a strategy for 2013.
It hasn’t gone much of anywhere.
I had a mental picture of what I wanted to accomplish and worked out a detailed plan. It didn’t last out the first week.
I put together another plan. That one never even got started.
But I’ve been making progress anyway. Getting things done. (At least I was until I got sidetracked by planning a late winter vacation escape…but a person’s got to have her priorities 😀 ).
So I’ve decided that for now, for at least the first part of the year, that’s my only goal. Get things done. I’m still recovering from the grief over my father’s death, still coming out of a long dry spell, still tender inside. I need to give myself time and space.
So: I’m going to try to get things done. I’m starting with short story submissions. I would like to start new writing as well, but while the urge is there, the direction is not. But that’s all right. It will come.
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Hugs on the lack of direction and the continued grief. I think you are going about it the right way taking it slowly.
Thanks.
I think, with your writing talents it would be a great gift to your familys descendants if you could write some memories of your childhood so that Darrell and Edith and your life in Montana could be remembered. I know I would like my grandchildren to have better knowledge of where they came from.
I might do that, when I can get past trying NOT to remember :p
Grief is an upheaval. You’re finding your way. Congrats on working on the submissions — that’s a big step in and of itself!
Thanks 🙂