A grandly morning!

Today I'll be doing Q and A's over at The Blue Stockings where you'll find a great review! Yay!

I'm also at Beyond The Books today talking a lot about the inner process of my work. From the outside, yes I get up early...really early...like, freaking early. I head out for a dog jog, then return to the ol' screen with my Chai green tea. Here I write until I can't anymore...sometimes a whole day, sometimes a whole fifteen minutes.

But what's my inner process? Well, I can tell you right now, it's not so cut 'n dry. There are days when I am tingling with joy as the ideas and words tip out like a waterfall and I've gone hours without food or drink. And then there are days when I am fussing over the weeding and mowing that needs to be done or what to feed Tylar who doesn't seem to like anything these days except spaghetti with butter and seasoning salt (at least the spag's whole wheat!). Or I'm up to my scalp in interviews and blogs and emails. And there's shopping and vacuuming and dishes and my friend's coming over and what about all those books I want to read and that glass of wine with my name on it...you get the picture.

There's just so much to do!

But here's the whammy of all this-- The dreaded "I"m not doing enough!". Of all the little gravelly stones along my rocky road, this has been the ginormous boulder! My greatest lesson: To let go, stop pushing so much and trust in that big ol' crazy sometimes questionable universe. It's something, as a self confessed 'achiever' that I have to come to over and over again.

It's about balance. These are all important things...certainly no less important than finishing book 2 (though it often takes over like a rebel weed!). I'm a mum, a friend, a runner of my household, a still newbie-ish gardener, a daughter, a happy single chick, a frustrated single chick...blah blah....all of which make up my inner process and, I think make me a better writer, which makes me a better mum, which makes me a better cook, which makes that glass of wine a perfect accompaniment, especially with a great friend....

As I wrote in my interview: As cliché as it sounds, I am learning to relax in the journey. Getting to my writing balanced so that I have no ‘tunnel vision’ regrets. Getting there with great memories and friends and family to punctuate it.

The balance of bliss...

K
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