Do you use a GPS to navigate when you go somewhere? Ever think you know better than it does and take a different route? And the annoyed British voice comes out of your phone, "Recalculating!" Okay, so maybe it's not quite like that, but it feels that sometimes, doesn't it? Especially when you won't take the recommended u-turn and head back the way it wanted you to go in the first place. Well, there's not a GPS for life (except for the Bible, of course), and sometimes when we set out plans for a year, several months in, we have to recalculate our route. You'd think after having moved so many times, after surviving 2020 and all the chaos that came with that, after everything we've been through the last few years, I could roll with the punches better. But the beginning of this year hasn't gone completely as I planned.
Granted, sometimes my plans are bigger than they probably should be. I readily agree with that. But still. I was doing pretty good back in January. I got my novella written for September. I went through and added some scenes to another story I want to send in as a proposal for down the road. I even rolled with it when I got my content edits for the June release and had to rewrite several chapters. But, I also expected to have the time and desire to write a novel in the first part of this year. And that's not happening. Maybe this summer. And that's fine. But it's also frustrating to me. Because it wasn't what I meant to do. I am learning how having so many releases so close together is going to work. I'm not complaining, mind you. I'm thrilled to have all these books coming out over the next few years. But I also set expectations for myself higher than I probably should. It's my idealist tendencies coming out. And I need to find my middle ground and balance and learn how this new "schedule" is going to work. So, I'm recalculating. It's not a bad thing. I'm not lost. Simply finding my way on this new road to keep heading the direction I want to go. How is your year going so far? Have you had to step back and recalculate how things will go?
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