I’ve decided to let this project go. It hasn’t turned out to be the useful tool that I thought it would be. Instead, it’s turned into something that I feel guilty about not tending and it’s just silly to let myself be so bothered by something I started because I thought it would be fun.

So I’m putting this project aside. I’ll leave it up for now. I’ll leave the access permissions the way that they are so if anyone wants to pick this up, you may. And I’ll stop in now and then and see if it’s been claimed by the ad bots. If I change my mind, I’ll start posting again. But for right now, I’d rather spend the worry and energy working on writing submissions to other organizations.

Thank you, you fantastic handful of people who joined me in this project for a while. Good luck in your writing endeavors! And I’ll catch you around cyberspace some time soon.

Kylene
Inking My Thinking

Busy writing! Come back later!

Write about Inauguration Day or the president or any of that stuff that's really effecting the U.S.A. most, but also hits over to other countries, too.

"It had been a perfectly normal work-day. All the regular business. And then she had to walk in . . . ."

...swinging her hips like a chandelier at the train station.



...next..

It had been a perfectly normal work-day.  All the regular business.  And then she had to walk in . . . .

Whoops!  Sorry about the end of last week.  I got a little distracted.

Here's the thought for this morning:  We've passed the darkest part of the year and the sun is starting to come back to us.  But what if it hadn't?  What if the days just kept on getting darker and darker?

I had a really fantastic holiday.  Half of it was lounging around and relaxing and enjoying that I wasn't at work all day.  And half of it was working on projects and things around the house.  It was fantastic getting to relax so much and get so many project accomplished.

Sadly, I never once managed to sit down and write.  I'd been planning to do it.  I had this goal to write several pages and get a start on my submission for the Writer's Digest competition.  But I completely failed to do it.  I don't know why exactly, just that other things, like organizing under the kitchen sink, seemed so much more important.  Why is that?

And now I'm back at work, getting up before light and getting home at almost 6:00 in the evening, with only the time between then and bedtime to get everything done that I should get done.  It takes an adjustment.  It's kind of dumb how quickly I can get used to being able to get things done during the day and then relax all evening.  But it's just not the way things tend to go during my normal work week.

And a lot of this is mostly babbling about how my brain needs to learn how to handle this sort of thing better.  And also to remind myself that if I'm serious about this, then I need to invest the time in it, even when I'd rather be kicking back with a book, even when the laundry room needs cleaning, even when I only have 15 minutes before I seriously need to turn off the light and go to sleep.

Because if I want to write, if I'm serious about wanting to do this better and expand what I'm doing with it, then I have to actually WRITE and EXPAND with it instead of just being lazy.

So!  That's my swift kick in the bum.  Now let's get back on track.

Are you journaling?

Have you given any thought to the Writer's Digest Annual Writing Competition?  Deadline is May 15th.

And finally, if you had a superpower, what would it be?

Welcome to the new year!  I hope you all had a wonderful time ringing out 2008!

I'm hoping to continue the momentum I had going before the holiday, posting 5 times a week or so.  Unfortunately, I'm having a heck of a day, this being my first day back at work in almost 2 weeks, and my brain is having trouble keeping up.  So today we're going to keep it brief.

Today, write about a calendar.