2022
Happy New Year! Welcome back to my little corner of the internet.
I won't be making any predictions.
I learned my lesson over the last two years that all of my predictions and 'things I want to get done this year' ideas are rendered compost by the middle of March, so you won't be getting that from me again. I've had too much dashed to want to risk voicing it and attracting the gods of irony and hubris. Does it sound like I've given up hope?
I haven't. Not at all. I've just had a shift in perspective. I've realized that I need to roll with things more and get done what I can get done on a day-to-day basis. I literally hurt myself last year trying to will Without Words into existence faster, and it ended up making things slower. I got less done because I pushed too hard. Last year I really thought was the year I could get out three books. I got one.
It's important to have goals, but I don't think it does me, or you, any good to espouse and articulate over them when I think the one thing that we've all learned lately is that we have less control over things than we thought. So me sitting here saying that I'm going to have x number of books out or that I will totally and most definitely finish the Ashes books or whatever is stupid and hurtful for you and me if I fail.
I don't know. I pushed really hard to get Without Words finished and it backfired, and bashing my brains out over The Raven and the Firebird is the closest I've ever come to burning out writing. I think we were all tired at the end of last year, and I was no exception.
BUT! The beginning of the year is a time for hope, optimism and renewal, and I had a good, long break. So I will venture to tell you that I want to do something new this year. I have plenty of ideas and therefore no shortage of options, so the hardest part will be deciding which to pursue. I have characters I'm already in love with I want to share, and notebooks full of stories to write.
If this post started off as a bummer, I apologize, but I hope it ends satisfying enough! Evolution is constant change, and growth can only be achieved in new spaces. Wish me luck, as I do to you.
Let's see what awaits.
I won't be making any predictions.
I learned my lesson over the last two years that all of my predictions and 'things I want to get done this year' ideas are rendered compost by the middle of March, so you won't be getting that from me again. I've had too much dashed to want to risk voicing it and attracting the gods of irony and hubris. Does it sound like I've given up hope?
I haven't. Not at all. I've just had a shift in perspective. I've realized that I need to roll with things more and get done what I can get done on a day-to-day basis. I literally hurt myself last year trying to will Without Words into existence faster, and it ended up making things slower. I got less done because I pushed too hard. Last year I really thought was the year I could get out three books. I got one.
It's important to have goals, but I don't think it does me, or you, any good to espouse and articulate over them when I think the one thing that we've all learned lately is that we have less control over things than we thought. So me sitting here saying that I'm going to have x number of books out or that I will totally and most definitely finish the Ashes books or whatever is stupid and hurtful for you and me if I fail.
I don't know. I pushed really hard to get Without Words finished and it backfired, and bashing my brains out over The Raven and the Firebird is the closest I've ever come to burning out writing. I think we were all tired at the end of last year, and I was no exception.
BUT! The beginning of the year is a time for hope, optimism and renewal, and I had a good, long break. So I will venture to tell you that I want to do something new this year. I have plenty of ideas and therefore no shortage of options, so the hardest part will be deciding which to pursue. I have characters I'm already in love with I want to share, and notebooks full of stories to write.
If this post started off as a bummer, I apologize, but I hope it ends satisfying enough! Evolution is constant change, and growth can only be achieved in new spaces. Wish me luck, as I do to you.
Let's see what awaits.
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