Notes to Self: One Foot Before the Other

My personality type is often called "visionary." That's a glorified term for someone who dreams of conquering worlds. While people with visionary personalities have their strengths, we can with relative ease bite off more than we can chew. It's hard to ignore a plethora of wonderful ideas, all pulling at your attention span.

As a writer who wants to actually produce books, however, I have to pace myself. For me that means I focus on one project at a time but alternate as needed to meet deadline demands. I have to watch myself, though, or I'll over-schedule and lose my hard-won balance.

I write this in the wake of DawnSinger edits, which put my life in crisis for several weeks because I also thought I had time to write an elf story. It worked out, and my story made it as a finalist for possible inclusion in Port Yonder Press's upcoming elf anthology, but I did pay a price in stress.

I'm not sorry I wrote the story, but I can't always chase elves when I should be editing.

Note to Self: Pace yourself.

© 2010 Janalyn Voigt

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