Writing has taken a back seat to life. My husbands parents celebrated their 50th anniversary in Hawaii and brought us along with. A week later I had a performance. The next weekend was filled with a convention. My grandmothers 95 birthday followed quickly along with clogged sewer lines. A close friend has become terribly ill and so it goes. All the while we are trying to take care of several home projects and make some headway with the garden, car repairs, trying to cook at home more often, and having shockingly expensive root canal life goes on and finally so does my writing.
I have put together a few more paragraphs and have a fairly complete storyline in mind. Now just to start working on it more. Motivation has been hard to find because life seems to be in flux. Threatened health care cuts have kept me in contact with our state government. Some of this has been positive but some of the people that were elected don't seem to understand what we face as a family and what worries me more is some of them don't seem to be able to perform simple addition or have any idea what their proposed numbers would mean to the many hard working state workers. I keep trying to let this frustration go but it leaves us in limbo like so many in these trying times. I hate to look at the problems in the news when business has taken over so much of our government that they no longer feel they have to even hide it. It is so depressing seeing the millionaires and corporations refusing to jump in and help when many of them were behind our latest downfall. I don't think I can face the full extent of the troubles and the uncertainty it brings. I decided I might try and look for stability in my writing and so with that thought I was off and writing and finally excited about it rather than feeling like I was stuck in the mud. I brings a closer understand of why during the depression people figured out how to pay for a movie, you just need to escape the sorrows and find some happiness however fleeting or it would just be to depressing.
I am throwing caution to the wind and setting a strong goal. I intend to write at least one chapter and a flow chart before the end of the week! My new taskmaster will be my calendar, because I will be entering my goals in there and setting alarms to remind myself!
