Did You Reach Your 2016 Goals?
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Lately, I’ve been reading Writing as a Way of Healing by Louise DeSalvo. (Worth picking up even if you only scribble in journals when you’re feeling particularly emo.) I’m only a couple chapters in, but already I realized this healing…
Can you believe we’re almost halfway into January already??
I must have passed out somewhere. I mean, that’s gotta be the reason for all those missing days.
Last December arrived and I tried to tally everything I did. At first, I was really upset. It didn’t seem like I got anything done, despite my anti-goals. Another year without an agent. Didn’t get my new book finished. Mark me a failure. Moan.
Whatever.
Then I really thought about it.
We freakin’ bought a HOUSE last year. With grass. With its own water bill. Which also flooded two months after moving in. And we got a puppy. That was sick for three months, and had to take the retard to the ER 3 times for doing dumb things like eating 10 lbs of my parents’ dog food in one sitting (and who is literally running circles currently in the backyard). And my DGH got a new job. And I lost 6 months from being sick to my disorder.
The fact I got ANYTHING creative done is freakin’ amazing. I got two drafts done on my Middle Grade fantasy, handed it off to my CPs, a verrrry rough draft done on the sequel to WPF, brainstormed other projects. Not to mention paintings!!
Then I didn’t feel so bad 😀
This year, I wanted to make some realistic creative goals. Two weeks ago, I made a giant list of everything I wanted to do. Then I spent some time hard core scaling it back. If chronic migraine life has taught me anything, it’s how to be realistic.
So, here’s my Migraine Adjusted Creative Goals:
June is National Migraine Awareness Month, and June 29th is specifically set aside for Chronic Migraine Awareness. (We even get our own ribbon! Pretty cool.) So in honor of that, I thought I'd post a couple acrylic pieces I painted…
You might be seeing an onslaught of purple ribbons this month as invisible illnesses try to move from the shadows. In which case, Welcome to June: National Migraine Awareness Month! You might be asking--why do migraines need awareness? Aren't they…
I've been challenged by reading Speak What We Feel (Not What We Ought To Say) by Frederick Buechner. As the title suggests, the book analyzes four different writers and their works--how they infused their work with the truth of what…