The Next Step in the Journey

Pep Talk

I’m having one of those days where I sit at the computer and cry because I’m so incredibly frustrated that I just can’t seem to get out what it is that I want to say in a way that will actually make sense and is well written. I feel like I’m banging my head against this invisible force field. One of my main problems is that I have to cut down to one day a week of writing. This means stress-head Linsey goes into overload trying to cram into one day what I would normally try and do it two. This, of course is impossible but I still try and do it.

I keep telling myself; just breathe, there is no deadline on this. The more time I take, the more I think about it, the more I let ideas stew and become fully complete, the better chance I have of communicating well and being understood.

So, pep talk done, it’s time to get back to work.

What exactly am I working on? At the moment I’ve got two picture books that I’m tweaking, trying to get the perfect word to make the perfect sentence (urrrgggg). Also, I’ve got a manuscript for a children’s book that I’m going over again for the 32^nd time (actually I don’t know how many times I’ve gone over it). These are the ones that I have in front of me at the present and I’m not thinking about the other half-baked manuscripts sitting in my computer’s memory.

So writing…. Just do it!