Many, many thoughts
Nov 11th, 2005 by Sandra
I’m finishing up line edits today on Dead Reckoning and hope to get that shipped back tomorrow. I also finished half of my Emily judging (yay!), so there’s another load off when that’s done.
Then it’s on to the next proposal.
It’s been a tough autumn for me. I took on too many responsibilities — the writing, chapter duties, judging — and then a hurricane turned up and we had to pack up our lives and move for several days. But it was one of those periods when I finally (finally!) remembered to remember a few things:
1. Each day is an opportunity.
2. Chipping away at a project every day beats cramming it in at the end.
3. For me, cramming = despair and despair = not writing.
4. Write through the impulse not to write.
5. Make time to meditate, or pray, or whatever fills your spirit.
6. Don’t obsess over tomorrow. It’s not here yet.
Thank heavens for reminders, even when they’re tough to take.
I learned the same thing, Sandra. We evacuated from Houston to Lake Charles and woke up the next morning facing another mandatory evacuation. Hurricanes are not fun… but they do make us look at our life and really ’see’ it.
How terrible that the evacuation turned out as it did for you! A friend of mine went east, too, but went far enough into Louisiana that she just had a lot of rain. Do you feel you’ve kind of gotten back to normal?