Jacky Lang's Blog - Posts Tagged "readers"
Scorched
This was not a summer filled with ice cream socials by day and long, warm, Margareta filled nights. Weeks and weeks of sizzling temperatures outside and boiling situations in my day job and real life left me dry and drained when September arrived.
It wasn't that I didn't write. After ending a long, but toxic friendship, and struggling through a shake-up at my office, and dealing with the realities of aging and finances, I didn't feel very creative, or romantic, or fun. All essentials for my fiction. Instead I managed to grind out articles and reports and other projects for work, while my notes for stories were buried under the swirling mass on my desk.
Then the rains came. Hours of deep sleep aided by dark skies and the sound of rain, followed by a few days of walking in the cool almost fall air, and I feel that I'm recovering. The crusty, burned, sorrow is flaking away. Underneath is the new, pink skin of a writer.
Everything is tender, inside and out, and the lessons of the scorching summer remain vividly painful. Still, it's time to move forward. Perhaps cautiously and not as quickly as I'd once hoped, but I will keep going. Just one reader--I just need to connect with one reader on each project and it will always be worthwhile.
It wasn't that I didn't write. After ending a long, but toxic friendship, and struggling through a shake-up at my office, and dealing with the realities of aging and finances, I didn't feel very creative, or romantic, or fun. All essentials for my fiction. Instead I managed to grind out articles and reports and other projects for work, while my notes for stories were buried under the swirling mass on my desk.
Then the rains came. Hours of deep sleep aided by dark skies and the sound of rain, followed by a few days of walking in the cool almost fall air, and I feel that I'm recovering. The crusty, burned, sorrow is flaking away. Underneath is the new, pink skin of a writer.
Everything is tender, inside and out, and the lessons of the scorching summer remain vividly painful. Still, it's time to move forward. Perhaps cautiously and not as quickly as I'd once hoped, but I will keep going. Just one reader--I just need to connect with one reader on each project and it will always be worthwhile.
