Showing Up

I spent the weekend writing again and that's a good thing. I'm slowly but surely learning the power of "showing up" in order to get the story out. That's the biggest thing that I'm learning as I work on my book. The first step of many is just to show up to let the story unfold.

I've been wanting to write a book for as long as I can remember...even when I was a young girl, I always had that in my mind. I've made a few attempts over the years, but those attempts sort of stalled along the way. Fingers crossed that this one won't skid to a stop ;-) I think that it can all work out though because of a few things:

1) I'm kind of stubborn...Lol...so even if it takes me years, I don't usually give up. This won't take years though. It'll be finished quite soon.

2) I made it through finishing my degree a couple of years ago after years of putting it on hold, so I have the feeling of completion of a long goal to draw upon now that I didn't have before. Now I know how good it feels to finally achieve a huge goal.

3) If I could write those thousands and thousands of words for essays while I was doing my university work, at least I know now that I can write a lot of words. Lol. I know that a novel is a different animal than university essay writing, but hey, I'm word counting. Gotta hold onto the positive here ;-)

4) I'm not trying to sound like my book will be some masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination, but I feel that it's just time to get some stories out. They've lived in my head a long time. It'll be like mental spring cleaning :-)

5) Finally, I just want to do it now.

As random as some of these things sound, in my mind, in my life, they make perfect sense. Lol. But I think that that's the beauty of the whole thing though...we all are ready when we're ready. Maybe it's that I'm getting older and things have moved around in my head in the way that was needed. Who knows? The important thing is that finally on this go around I'm "showing up". We shall see what it all comes to in the end, but a great part of me is okay with things whatever the outcome because I know that I'll be okay no matter what :-)

Well, that's just what's on my mind as we start this new week and I continue on this journey of completing my book. I hope that you'll visit me again to see how I'm getting along. 

Until next time...