baby steps, and a recipe: orange ricotta tart
Every November, I wonder whether I’ll have the nerve to attempt NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) or NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month). With the first, I’d commit to write a novel during the month of November, or, at least, commit to daily writing with word count goals. With the second, I’d commit to writing a blog post daily for the entire 30 days of November.
No. The answer is no. I don’t have the nerve, nor the stamina.
But here it is, November already, and I’m putting fingers to keyboard. Just one blog post. It’s a baby step toward what I really want to be writing, but I’m okay with that.
Welcome back! I always love your writing, you have such a talent for telling stories.
Lovely MJ. I hope my upcoming trip to Chicago is equally inspiring. I just posted for the first time in a long while and it was only a teaser post to a guest post for someone else but I’ll take it! At least I had to write the other post as well! Life happens a lot but patience is indeed a virtue as a busy working parent. Baby steps can be giant. Hang in there. Please.
I don’t know why, but I have tears in my eyes now. It’s not the onions that I’ve just cut up for pizza, either. It’s because I love you and wish we lived closer to each other. You’d teach me to knit, I’d make cocktails for you. We’d laugh, we’d cry, hopefully, more laughing than crying.
Maybe I’m just teary because you baked.
oxoxoxo
This post rings so true. I know what it’s like, to have that itch at the ends of your fingers, that motivation burning a hole in your heart, the urgency to write setting fire under the soles of your feet… But then, when it gets down to it, just ignoring it al and moving on with my daily routine, the notebook or computer abandoned off to the side…
Some days, I wish I had the stamina to post daily. But then I realize that diluted writing, writing done half-assedly, is writing better not done at all.
What a lovely escape. I love the possibilities inherent in a blank notebook or sketchbook 🙂
I remember being at The Big Summer Potluck and sitting near the front and I believe it was during Brooke’s session (this was a few years back so my memory is faint) and one of my most vivid memories of that session was when you spoke and said that you have a book that is inside you…Years ago and that is what I remember when I read your blog. How great that you were able to spend time with friends and move in baby steps to that book that lives inside. Just great!
I was happy to see you pop up in my feed…and baby steps are the best kind of steps. Just come back as you and when you are ready to share!
I’m so happy you are inspired again 🙂