Right. I’m being a terrible blogger and I know it. For those of you, friends and family and lookers-on that enjoy what I do here, I apologize for letting you down.
Be warned: I’m probably going to continue to let you down.
I have thought of closing this poor neglected site down altogether, but in the end I like the record I’m keeping here, no matter how sporadic it has become. It has to be this way because the work I’m doing elsewhere is more important to me, and something I absolutely must make the most of.
My writing outside this blog is going really well. For the moment I’m productive and prolific and inspired. I intend to ride that for all it’s worth. Writing fiction is work that makes my heart sing, work that feels worth doing despite the fact that I’m courting financial ruin to pursue it. (Note to family: I promise not to let the children starve or go shoeless in winter.)
So, today, following a conversation with my husband that was along the lines of: how much longer can we go on like this? I spent some time mapping out my writing goals. You should see the document I just wrote up. You won’t, because I won’t show it to you, but I promise it’d be good for a giggle at my expense. It includes such gems as “Get agent,” “Finish novel,” and “Land teaching position based on (currently nonexistent) publication history,” complete with target dates. It felt a little silly to write, which is part of why I’m making fun of it here, but also: it didn’t feel entirely silly. Some of it felt a little bit exciting, and I don’t mind saying that I’ve worked hard to get to a place where I can target a date for dreams like: “Finish novel,” and actually write those words down as if such a thing would actually happen.
Yes, the work is going well, and the blog is not. It’s a price I’m willing to pay.
7 Responses
November 8th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
So nice to hear from you whenever fancy and time get together and you can shout out.
It’s all good stuff. Good, good, stuff!!!
November 8th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Pleasewithsugarontop do not close down the site. Just the occasional update and sharing of dreams and successes is fine. Once you finish a good chunk of work, once you get an agent, then you can come back and tell us all the exciting details of sitting on your laurels.
November 8th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
This is the first day I’ve opened up my RSS feeds to look at blogs in months, and there you were! What a little treat! I’m so excited for you, and I think putting things on paper is half the battle. Most of the time, when I write down goals, no matter how silly it feels at the time, 97% of the time, almost magically, they come to fruition.
Can’t wait to take your class someday.
November 9th, 2008 at 12:27 am
Fine. Pay the price. But couldn’t you add update-blog-once-a-week to your goal list? I mean, once a week is doable, right? C’mon!
And btw, I love your hair in the photo up there….
November 14th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
I’m a terrible blogger too - we should start an association or something.
“The League of Terrible Bloggers”
November 14th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Sxxxxxx
Please share list in dorm rooms in January.
must have big pow wow
on how how
to keep HOPE as big as OBAMA
in our daily dreams and goings-on
I miss you and can’t wait to see you and I believe in you.
mwah!
January 26th, 2009 at 1:59 am
O Stacy,
Don’t make fun of writing your dreams. I hate to go all new age on you, but sometimes the way we get to where we want to be have nothing to do with practical reality. Being able to write down how you envision it is a bold and noble move, no matter how little sense it may seem to make in the present. Your being able to imagine it as a reality, no matter how it works out that you get there, well, that’s what counts (and I paraphrase this from a lot of reading on the law of attraction type stuff over the years). Sending you my love and support. Can’t wait to read your fiction.
xo
Terese
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