Fall has been a big season of change for me:
- New day job
- Studying for new certification for new job
- No coach (he retired and I’m still looking for a new one)
- Old friend back in town
Listed they seem trivial but taken together it’s required a realignment of priorities and expectations. Control freak that I am even the good changes have me flailing a bit. But learning a bit of flexibility is never a bad thing, and without the occasional shakeup it’s easy to go stale.
What little writing/editing I’m getting done is more productive. It’s like removing my nose from the grindstone allowed some ideas to free up, and I’m finally resolving some plot holes and character motivations that I’ve been fretting over for months.
Because of changes in commute I’m also forced to brainstorm in new places, and something as small as a change in scenery is enough to jog things loose.
My apologies for brevity, but yesterday was actually my first day of the new job and I’m still kind of cluttered. What have you all been up to?
Congratulations on New Job! I look forward to hearing about what you’ll be doing now and about the new skills you’re acquiring. Change is so contradictory in being simultaneously scary and energizing/inspiring … may this be lots of the latter and a minimum of the former. 🙂
Self is taking the week off as a staycation (kicked off by the long weekend for Canadian Thanksgiving) … hence the bits and pieces that I’ve been dropping into your inbox and other places. Catching up on reading and making progress on complicated pink thing (http://www.ravelry.com/projects/jlsjlsjls/coffee-cantata) and mostly indulging in very much deserved/earned unlaxing.
JLS
OOooh, the luxury of just *reading*!! And that is a glorious magenta!
I’m right there with you! I started a new day job in May and I had to begin a writing schedule (which I had never wanted to do) so I could log my writing time, to see if I was actually doing any!
The good news is that enforced new routines eventually settled down and are working.
Bad news is that it does take a while, so be patient with yourself. Have a coffee with the new friend in town, take a break from the world now and then and make us wait a bit longer before we hear from you again 😉 we will understand xxx
Best of luck, Elaine x
It truly was a luxury … it’d been FAR too long since I’d last been able to read two chapters in a row, let alone an entire book.
I’m counting on those socks to brighten up dreary winter days. 🙂
You clearly know exactly what I’m going through 🙂 Thanks for the vote of confidence, and thank you for continuing to read this blog!