Sticking a Pin in It.
This has been a wonky start to an unpredictable year. The end of last year`s unexpected wrench toss landing wreckage is slowly gettng cleared. Proving to be a valid reasson to move forward at a slower pace than planned, making some key vetting decisions on a wide assortment of life elements from activities to home decor through to more intangeable ones like priorities, and perspective.
Writing has taken a back seat for the moment only inspired, ‘got to write that down,’ words allowed. No editing this first quarter of the year, no major reading, only pausing to clear my feelings into coherent thoughts.
The first and most important circuituos. thought is where to go from here? The writing landscape, meaning fiction writing, appears to be in a vortex of change. The market, and marketing certainly looks like it from my limited vantage point. No judgement on my part as to the good or bad of it, just that it isn’t what it was when I started in 2014.
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Granted due to other circumstances of little control, a pin was anchored in 2018. That pause was to gain some knowledge and practice. Figure out how to make this writing work for me. When and how does it happen, learn what my process is for constructing a story. Putting that awareness in to a repeatable method. It was also to gain skill and stretch to being able to properly present a story that I felt untalented and inept to tell. (Progress is being made on that story, just slower than I planned.)
Last year and the start of this has been a mirror for me. Recognizing that I am doing what I want, writing. Gaining skill, learning to step back and self edit. Forgiving myself for breaking promises to made to myself of deadlines for what and when stories would be finished. Acknowledging that while some goals are still on the table, others have been achieved.
Do we have to always know the next exact step? It is nice, but because of the constant of change, a general idea of the direction is good enough. Finding my heading for the direction to take the next step. Where do I want to go?
Enjoy the journey.
