Do I love being paid to be a stickler for details when I’m hired to edit a story?
Yes.
Yes, I do.
Thank you for asking.
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I don’t live a big life. My world is small.
Where once I used to travel to places like the Caribbean and Japan, my trips are reduced to the distance between my house and the grocery store, Alex’s day program, and the pharmacy. And occasionally out of town for appointments.
I don’t fly—I drive or if it’s close enough, walk.
So it’s no wonder that I live much of my life outside the confines of my office by exploring online.
And lately, the world online is nothing to write home about. Or if it is, the letter home is overshadowed with fear.
I know I said I’d try to stay away from talking about politics, and I really do try to avoid doom scrolling, but it’s all getting to the point where it affects me personally. And I don’t know how much longer I’m going to be able to hold out.
I don’t want to be consumed by the news. It’s not good for my health.
The question is becoming whether I want to bury my head in the sand and be surprised by whatever is going to change my life, or if it’s better to see it coming.
Stay tuned.
I’m still trying not to talk about it.
The bulk of what I’ve got is time.
And work.
And procrastination.
They take up all my time.
They fill me up until my head explodes.
But it’s weird; I can’t do nothing. I used to be able to do nothing, once upon a time. I could sit and just stare out the window, or listen to music and just daydream.
Daydreaming, I guess, has become my job. My daydreams go on paper to be shared.
Does that mean I keep none of my daydreams to myself?
No.
Because some daydreams shouldn’t be shared.
And some are just too big and don’t feel like they’d fit in the world outside of my head.
They’re way too bulky.
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I’m sitting at my desk in front of my laptop, drinking my coffee and staring at a blank page. Okay, not quite blank, because it now has two sentences on it.
Hmm.
When I’m writing a story, I often launch into it with no idea what’s going to come out. What’s going to flow from my fingertips. That’s why I love stream of consciousness writing so much, I guess. It comes natural to me.
Far more natural than, say, speaking.
If I’m faced with talking about something? If I don’t know what to say, I usually end up saying something stupid. Something that plays on repeat in my head, making me want to slap myself.
Why is it always the stupid things you say that you remember most often?
Or maybe it’s just me.
Hmm.
I’ve decided I want to try to keep blogging every day. We’ll see how long that lasts.
So what are we all talking about these days aside from politics?
The weather? That I can do.
But not today. I’m staying indoors. 🥶
I have to preface this by saying I’ve never actually tried it.
Or maybe I have, but if so, I was too young to remember it now.
But I refuse to believe that a spoonful of sugar would help the medicine go down.
I’m, like, imagining popping a Tylenol into my mouth and trying to wash it down with sugar.
It would be so … dry!
Don’t you think?
Either way, not helpful in the slightest.
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You’d think that with solid goals and the steps to reach them, going after what you want and getting there would be easy. Assuming all the steps are reachable, of course.
So why is it so hard to get our desires in line with our goals? Assuming desires and goals are the same …?
Okay, let me break this down.
If I desire a cake.
My goal is getting to the store to get my cake.
The steps required are digging the car out of the driveway, clearing the snow off it, driving safely to the store and back home again with the cake.
But what if I don’t want to dig the car out?
That gets in the way of my goal, which keeps me from what I desire.
Right?
So my desires and my goal are out of line with each other.
That took a lot of brain.
And now I want cake.
Damn it.
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Well, my laptop is starting to sound like it’s going to pack it in again. And today it got hot enough that I had to turn it off.
But how am I going to pick another computer that will serve me as well as this one has?
I’ve thought about buying a Mac.
But that sounds too much like having to relearn things I no longer have to think about.
But enough whining about technology.
I need prompts!
Go here and give me one if you’re planning to join in on the rest of Just Jot it January. Or if you’ve been participating up ’til now.
I’m making a list of people who have already submitted prompts this month in case I don’t get ten from bloggers who haven’t already done so.
I’ll start on that list at 10am Sunday (tomorrow).
Peck pock puck.
Yes, I cheated. *runs away with the bonus points*
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It’s the little things …
A row of knitting on top of a row of knitting that eventually makes a blanket.
A piece of paper I no longer need shredded and put out for recycling.
A word on my blog that leads to the next.
Without the little things, I’d never wrap my head around the idea that I can get the big things done.
Problem is, there’s always another big thing waiting to get done.
Still, I like the idea of the little things.
It’s the little things that make me happy.
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Every day, I write out two to-do lists for myself.
One is the stuff I need to get done “today,” things like edit this, write that, read a book, post for Just Jot it January … stuff I know I need to do without making a list, but it’s nice to be able to cross off the easy stuff.
The second list is stuff I need to get done in the near future—update my editing site, update my author site, get covers for my new series, etc. Some of the things on this list have been there for years.
Procrastination is a thing, and apparently so is self-sabotage. But I digress.
Every day, I see the things I need to do—the things in front of me.
But I only go back to see what I’ve accomplished—the things behind me—once a year.
Maybe I’d be less down on myself for not getting things done if I looked back more often and saw that there are things on my second list that I have accomplished.
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