Its been a while since I’ve put something here. That’s not to say I haven’t started twenty posts then stopped because each one sounded great in my head but didn’t read well on the screen. Stopping and starting has been the game lately. I start blog posts, start reading new books, start new projects around the house, start new schedules for the household, and start wondering what-the-heck I’m doing. Some people probably have a great spring cleaning process. If you saw mine on paper, it would be a Rorschach test.
So I decided to put everything on hold during my personal me time except two things: my book and any other book.
My book, last time I thought about it, was somewhere toward the end of Act 2. Getting to Act 3 was a monumental effort that I was not fit for. Daily conversations with Hubster went something like this:
Him: Are you done with Act 2?
Me: Nope.
Him: How much more to go?
Me: *Sigh* I wish I knew.
And then, without realizing it, I was in the middle of Act 3. It took me a whole day to realize it, and I glowed and had a little aw-shucks moment. So short-term goal one? Completed!
Now for the other book, which was really any of the 50 books in my TBR (to be read) stack. Each one has won an award of note: National Book Award, Pulitzer, NYTBSL. But my mind was so scattered with the rorschach cleaning that I couldn’t get beyond a couple of pages. I decided on Educating Waverley by Laura Kalpakian. I picked this book because I considered taking a year-long class with her so I needed to read something she wrote. The book is amazing and I have a few posts coming about various writerly things I learned. However, while reading this, I found out the content of the year-long class and decided it wasn’t a good fit for me. So goal two? Completed!
There was also another short-term goal in there. What to do? Year-long class, SIWC.ca conference, or just keep writing. I decided on SIWC. Goal three? Completed!
I hope your spring rorschach cleaning is going super too.