Keep Going

        Hello, gentle readers! Hope you are all well and staying safe!

        It’s been a week, my fine peeps. The day job is keeping me busier than I want to be (and truthfully, I’m having a hard time keeping up). It’s all good though. I learned how to multi-task a long time ago and that’s the only thing keeping my head above water! On my work-from-home days, I can hear my husband chuckling at me from the other room because he hears me talking to people on the phone and making them laugh (my work-from-home days are busy phone days). I think it’s important to be able to make people laugh whenever you can. I also believe in being kind—to everyone.

        On the writing front, things are going well. I am writing every weekday morning, before the day job, which is my routine. After the day job, I have no functioning brain cells left. Sometimes, I write on the weekend, too. I admit, I took a break yesterday and did nothing except my Saturday chores. Once those were done, I sat my behind on the couch and watched a couple movies—nothing I would recommend though.

        I did have a day early in the week where my word count was dismal and…I had a moment. I don’t know if you’ve ever had that moment where you ask yourself why you continue to write (or continue to do something you’ve done for a long time). The moment didn’t last long. Just a day, but I did have to have a long talk with myself in the mirror. Basically, the gist of it was “pull up your big girl panties and get on with it”. That seems to work well for me and it did. The rest of the week, my word count was really good and The Madam and Mr. MacLean is moving right along.

        Also last week, I participated in a writing workshop. I love those…I always get something good out of them and this one didn’t disappoint. The most important thing I learned is that what works for one might not necessarily work for another. This particular workshop was geared to finding your strengths. I’m going to take the test (hahahahaha, yes, there’s a test to see what your strengths are!). I know at least one of them. Perseverance. I have that by the bucketful! I keep putting one foot in front of the other (yes, sometimes I do the cha-cha, one foot forward, one foot back, but I always get the rhythm and I always keep going).

        And that’s about all for me…it’s Sunday so time to water the plants before I do the rest of my Sunday chores. Stay well! Stay safe! And remember to spread kindness wherever you go!

Marie