Welcome Back

Well. That was another break that was longer than I expected. I swear there were several times I was going to do a blog post here, but then I’d get distracted and . . . well, you know how that goes. I have not yet earned my vanity plates. *hangs head sadly*

But this is a new year, and while it’s not a new me, it’s a more determined me. I spent the entire day yesterday cleaning my desk and reorganizing the bookcases behind my desk to make a space more conducive to spending more time in my office, hopefully writing.

I may have thought I was over the reading madness, when last I posted, but I was not. My Achilles heel seems to be boxed sets of fated mates, whether they be to aliens or shifters. And Amazon appears to be full of them. *sigh*

Yesterday I updated my Goodreads goal so I could start fresh for the new year. My original goal was to read 75 books in the year. But halfway through the year I had to upgrade that number to 100, and then 150. By the end of yesterday my total sat at 222 books for the year. So my first goal for the new year is less reading, more writing.

I also want to spend at least an hour a day in my office. Maybe there’ll be days where all I do is push papers around, but I want to build a habit of being in there.

When I started meeting with an old friend on Wednesdays, the idea was to inspire each other to write. We wrote as teenagers and she wanted to get back into it. This has not been happening. We usually reminisce and go out to lunch, then reminisce some more. Sometimes we go shopping. I told her that starting in the new year I wanted us to start getting some writing in on our Wednesdays. Only time will tell if this happens.

Meanwhile, someone from a writing group I was in a few years ago got in touch with me, looking to see if I wanted to get together at the library the next town over to work on our writing together. It’s kind of like the write-ins from NaNo. We meet and write with very little talking. The focus is on the writing. And I’ve been getting some editing done on Elemental Spirit. It’s finally going in the direction it needs to do. So that’s a step in the right direction.

Early last year I realized that my writing was being subsumed by my crafting. The stitchery guild I was part of took up a lot of my time, and honestly crafting seemed easier than writing. But I’ve slowly been turning that around and I’ve put the crafting in the back seat where it belongs. Now I just have to do the same for my reading. LOL