Size Seven Shoes

Starting things is easy. Finishing them... well, that's another story.  I am so tempted to abandon my novel right now. I've been plodding along at it for more than a year now, and it's disheartening how slow progress is sometimes or how bleak it is in reality that my story will ever find a decent home for itself someday. Even the email that I sent out to an acquisition editor who was previously keen on my manuscript has gone without a reply for some time now and it makes me wonder if anyone is truly keen on my novel after all.  On other matters, the year has set itself in motion by now and a somewhat new routine has been slowly emerging. It's a little hindered right now though as both my kids have fallen ill and therefore, school attendance will be temporarily put on halt as they recover. Influenza B, it seems. Rather unexpected, but I guess this is bound to happen at some point to us.  I guess I'm just glad that I seemed to have gotten away without having contracte...

 Heya! It's the New Year!  I want to say that I'd like to write more this year. Write more of my own stuff, and not just the things I have to write for work and other such related obligations. But I hesitate to say it is so because almost always when I do, it doesn't happen.  So maybe I shouldn't say anything and just write. And let things take place more organically.  Oh, I don't really know. Gahh.  In any case, I would really like to have a nicer home for my blog. I'm contemplating recreating a Wix site and dumping EVERYTHING there. Photos, portfolio, blog posts, author material, etc.  But well, we shall see.  And I'm still plodding on in my novel. Though I've delayed a good few months sending it off to the acquisitions editor whom I was communicating with during the last quarter of last year.  YES, that did happen. Indeed. I still can't believe it. But, oh, will I be too late? Aargh.  Okay, gotta go for now. I shall return soon, I promise....