When it all hits the fan… sometimes, you just have to duck!

Sharon sent me virtual flowers and made my day! Thanks Sharon. :-)

As a writer, you know, you don’t always get what you want. Some dreams just don’t come to fruition, whether it be a timing or financial issue; and projects sometimes hit the dust, simply because of circumstances.

I have been teaching memoir / life story writing for quite a few years and have been working together with Kathy Pooler, Sherrey Meyer and Sharon Lippincott to get a memoir writing challenge project off the ground. We’ve had some bumps and bruises along the way, but with my health in the current state it is in, and with all of us being crazy over-busy, it’s just not going to happen the way we had planned. As heart breaking as it has been to do it, last night I had the awful task of officially closing the project.

This blog will definitely continue as a resource blog for writers, posting twice a week. That I can handle. The Facebook Memoir page is now in the capable hands of Kathy and the other contributors. I am on Twitter only which is manageable.

I’m looking at it this way: it is time to rest, take a breath and consider doing something a little different. If I don’t work, I will go nuts; I just have to radically modify what I am doing.

So stay with me. Support an Author Month comes out in May. Posts are already scheduled until the end of June. This blog will continue, it will simply be less crazy to maintain. My Google Plus and Facebook accounts are gone (though the deletion of those did result in a happy dance…)

Thank you so very, very much to those of you who have supported the memoir project: Kathy Pooler, Sherrey Meyer and Sharon Lippincott, Chris Houser from Flash Memoirs, Madeline Sharples, Linda Joy Meyers from the National Association of Memoir Writers and Jenny Hansen from the Writers in the Storm blog. I am indebted and grateful to you all.

Cate

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