Getting Creative
I have been having a hard time this week trying to pick a topic for this blog post. It’s been a difficult choice. Normally I think about what I have gone through during the week. It is what inspires me for each blog post. This week has been made up of me taking advantage of any little time I have right now to write. It has also been about the excitement of what is coming up this week. Bad Karma releases on Monday and my excitement is growing by the day. This weeks post is all about taking advantage of every minute you can and the excitement of a new book release.
My schedule has gotten crazy in the last two weeks. Both kids are in karate now and so am I. I am starting to think I was crazy for joining but I do enjoy going. I live at the karate studio at this point. There is also the fact I work full time, I try to cook at least a few times a week, plus I tutor a kid who is a friend of my daughter’s. Weekends are me writing blog posts, editing one of my books and if I can possibly can get some drafting done, I do. In between all of this I am doing takeovers, live reads, and posting regularly on social media. It’s a crazy schedule and getting drafting done is almost impossible or at least it feels that way. So how do I get any writing done? How do I keep going when all I want to do is nothing? I get creative.
So I am at karate four nights a week. Between private lessons and group lessons, I am there a lot. The good news is, I have made friends at the karate studio and they have given me their Wi-Fi passwords. So while I have lessons after lessons to go to, I made the decision it was time to start bringing my laptop with me. While my kids are doing lessons I get to write. It may only be an hour long or maybe close to two hours but I get to do some writing. I bring my phone, headset, and computer and I tune out everything and work. I get to do what I love while my kids do what they love. It is a great balance. I also still write in the early morning.
Another advantage I take is when I have a day off or a two hour delay. (I live in Colorado and we get snow days, two hour delays and with flu season here it also causes for days off.) On those days, I take advantage of the situation. I write as long as I can. I don’t do something else, I don’t look at it as down time to relax, I write until I can’t write anymore.
This week my son had to leave school because he was sick. It sucked because I had to take more time off work. I have a limited number of sick hours and we are understaffed. I felt terrible for leaving my team even more short handed. The upside was, I got to enjoy an extra four hours of writing, it made me feel good to get some extra writing done. I love how it feels when I sit at my computer. The only time I get to feel like me is when I am at my computer creating, editing and being with Savannah and all the others. It makes me feel like all that I do is worth it. As long as my days are, as many things that are happening everyday, being on the computer doing what I love makes it all worth it. This all leads into the next part of this post and that is the excitement of Bad Karma releasing.
A few weeks ago, I talked about the pressure I was feeling to get everything done in time for the release. I was able to get what needed to be done in time. There was a sigh of relief as I wrote that sentence. I wasn’t sure I was going to finish all of my tasks. There was a moment last week I took my eye off the prize and I question whether I could do this. With the release of Bad Karma just a day away. I know I can do this. The excitement of knowing my second book is going to be out for people to discover is so big it makes me want to jump up and down. I still get scared that it’s not as good as I think it is. I still get nervous that I have made a fool of myself but I have some awesome readers who love Savannah and her story. They have said so to me and to the world with their reviews. It is a great feeling. I am trying not to scream at the top of my lungs with the sheer joy I feel. This joy I feel has made me more confident in what I am doing and in me as a whole. Every risk I have taken hasn’t paid off. It hasn’t been a perfect journey but it has been exciting and it is going to get more exciting. I have a feeling it is only going to get better. The excitement, the numbers of readers I have, the success I have already experienced, it will all continue to grow.
So find what makes you happy, what makes you feel like you. Do what you need to do to get you where you need to be. Don’t allow fear to stop you. Keep working hard and don’t let yourself stop for anything. Take advantage of situations. Get creative where you work because it doesn’t matter when or where you are at. What matters is the words you get on paper. Until next time!
My schedule has gotten crazy in the last two weeks. Both kids are in karate now and so am I. I am starting to think I was crazy for joining but I do enjoy going. I live at the karate studio at this point. There is also the fact I work full time, I try to cook at least a few times a week, plus I tutor a kid who is a friend of my daughter’s. Weekends are me writing blog posts, editing one of my books and if I can possibly can get some drafting done, I do. In between all of this I am doing takeovers, live reads, and posting regularly on social media. It’s a crazy schedule and getting drafting done is almost impossible or at least it feels that way. So how do I get any writing done? How do I keep going when all I want to do is nothing? I get creative.
So I am at karate four nights a week. Between private lessons and group lessons, I am there a lot. The good news is, I have made friends at the karate studio and they have given me their Wi-Fi passwords. So while I have lessons after lessons to go to, I made the decision it was time to start bringing my laptop with me. While my kids are doing lessons I get to write. It may only be an hour long or maybe close to two hours but I get to do some writing. I bring my phone, headset, and computer and I tune out everything and work. I get to do what I love while my kids do what they love. It is a great balance. I also still write in the early morning.
Another advantage I take is when I have a day off or a two hour delay. (I live in Colorado and we get snow days, two hour delays and with flu season here it also causes for days off.) On those days, I take advantage of the situation. I write as long as I can. I don’t do something else, I don’t look at it as down time to relax, I write until I can’t write anymore.
This week my son had to leave school because he was sick. It sucked because I had to take more time off work. I have a limited number of sick hours and we are understaffed. I felt terrible for leaving my team even more short handed. The upside was, I got to enjoy an extra four hours of writing, it made me feel good to get some extra writing done. I love how it feels when I sit at my computer. The only time I get to feel like me is when I am at my computer creating, editing and being with Savannah and all the others. It makes me feel like all that I do is worth it. As long as my days are, as many things that are happening everyday, being on the computer doing what I love makes it all worth it. This all leads into the next part of this post and that is the excitement of Bad Karma releasing.
A few weeks ago, I talked about the pressure I was feeling to get everything done in time for the release. I was able to get what needed to be done in time. There was a sigh of relief as I wrote that sentence. I wasn’t sure I was going to finish all of my tasks. There was a moment last week I took my eye off the prize and I question whether I could do this. With the release of Bad Karma just a day away. I know I can do this. The excitement of knowing my second book is going to be out for people to discover is so big it makes me want to jump up and down. I still get scared that it’s not as good as I think it is. I still get nervous that I have made a fool of myself but I have some awesome readers who love Savannah and her story. They have said so to me and to the world with their reviews. It is a great feeling. I am trying not to scream at the top of my lungs with the sheer joy I feel. This joy I feel has made me more confident in what I am doing and in me as a whole. Every risk I have taken hasn’t paid off. It hasn’t been a perfect journey but it has been exciting and it is going to get more exciting. I have a feeling it is only going to get better. The excitement, the numbers of readers I have, the success I have already experienced, it will all continue to grow.
So find what makes you happy, what makes you feel like you. Do what you need to do to get you where you need to be. Don’t allow fear to stop you. Keep working hard and don’t let yourself stop for anything. Take advantage of situations. Get creative where you work because it doesn’t matter when or where you are at. What matters is the words you get on paper. Until next time!
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