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January 2009 
The First Weeks..
Posted on Jan 9th, 2009
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Seladyne
Seladyne
The new year has gotten off to a fairly rough start.
My roommate managed to bring home a very nasty illness which she and I both ended up getting and dealing with. While I am on the mend now and feeling much better than I was in the first few days of the year, thanks to the illness I had to put some of my resolutions on hold rather than embracing them with the gusto that I had anticipated. This was mainly due to a complete lack of energy or ability to get out of bed. In fact, I did little except sleep.
Once I started getting better over the weekend after enjoying a movie with my husband on our computer, I was excited about getting back to work on the website business and getting it up and running. I have some final touches to put on. Monday, I took my husband to work and came home to find that the computer was practically dead in the water. In fact, even as I write this, it will not run in anything other than safe-mode. So working on the site was out of the question. In fact, my intenet is iffy at best. So rather than get frustrated with continually losing my work on the site, we're putting the computer in the shop and hoping for the best.
Worst case scenario, we end up buying a new computer though. And fortunately my mother has a spare to loan me while we're having ours worked on.
Being back up to par, I'm mulling over some new novel ideas. It is a year of change for me. In fact, I'm considering finding an editor to work with on my projects. Perhaps a "book doctor" or a "writing coach". Ultimately, I think I've been lacking in moral support over the course of the past year.
Starting "The Artist's Way" for the umpteenth time in my life, I find that the process if just as pertinent now as it was more than ten years ago when I was first introduced to the book by a former editor.
When we don't continually work with the blockages and allow ourselves to slip into the same sort of blocked consciousness it is unbelievable how difficult it can be to work through them again to get to the heart of the creative process.
It is a largely spiritual journey. That is something that many people overlook. It is a journey that I'm quite excited about taking once again. I have missed the creative side of my life. There have been other outlets like sewing, web design, and even scrapbooking but nothing quite like the writing. None of those are quite as rewarding for me as the writing. So I'm looking forward to getting my work out to the public at large again. In fact, I'm thinking seriously about offering some of my work via the web for free as opposed to getting so focused on publishing for money again.
We'll just have to see how the year plays out.
My roommate managed to bring home a very nasty illness which she and I both ended up getting and dealing with. While I am on the mend now and feeling much better than I was in the first few days of the year, thanks to the illness I had to put some of my resolutions on hold rather than embracing them with the gusto that I had anticipated. This was mainly due to a complete lack of energy or ability to get out of bed. In fact, I did little except sleep.
Once I started getting better over the weekend after enjoying a movie with my husband on our computer, I was excited about getting back to work on the website business and getting it up and running. I have some final touches to put on. Monday, I took my husband to work and came home to find that the computer was practically dead in the water. In fact, even as I write this, it will not run in anything other than safe-mode. So working on the site was out of the question. In fact, my intenet is iffy at best. So rather than get frustrated with continually losing my work on the site, we're putting the computer in the shop and hoping for the best.
Worst case scenario, we end up buying a new computer though. And fortunately my mother has a spare to loan me while we're having ours worked on.
Being back up to par, I'm mulling over some new novel ideas. It is a year of change for me. In fact, I'm considering finding an editor to work with on my projects. Perhaps a "book doctor" or a "writing coach". Ultimately, I think I've been lacking in moral support over the course of the past year.
Starting "The Artist's Way" for the umpteenth time in my life, I find that the process if just as pertinent now as it was more than ten years ago when I was first introduced to the book by a former editor.
When we don't continually work with the blockages and allow ourselves to slip into the same sort of blocked consciousness it is unbelievable how difficult it can be to work through them again to get to the heart of the creative process.
It is a largely spiritual journey. That is something that many people overlook. It is a journey that I'm quite excited about taking once again. I have missed the creative side of my life. There have been other outlets like sewing, web design, and even scrapbooking but nothing quite like the writing. None of those are quite as rewarding for me as the writing. So I'm looking forward to getting my work out to the public at large again. In fact, I'm thinking seriously about offering some of my work via the web for free as opposed to getting so focused on publishing for money again.
We'll just have to see how the year plays out.
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