If you are a parent you might recognise the
tone of my title today, inspired by the Charlie and Lola series of books
written for children. My daughters love those books, and I enjoy reading them
at bedtime. It came as an epiphany late last week, when I was mentally
reviewing my recent freelance workload, or lack thereof. I am currently
experiencing the dry spell of the freelancer, and it threw me into a slight panic,
not least because of the lack of income. I began to worry that I wasn’t good
enough, and that I am an impostor.
Stop! Wait a minute. I am actually an author!
For most of the past twelve months I have focused on growing my SpookyMrsGreen pagan family lifestyle blog, and the results are
beginning to show. I have a growing audience, and one that is engaged with my
blog posts, and I still enjoy writing for my blog. But I have neglected my
novels. I have been half-heartedly working on book 6 in the Redcliffe novels series, but I am no further
forward with it than I was twelve months ago. I have been distracted by my blog
work and have allowed my fiction work to fall by the wayside. And so, I have
decided that this year I shall participate in NaNoWriMo – National Novel
Writing Month. I need to write approximately 50,000 words to finish the first
draft of Bite of the Wolf (A Redcliffe Novel), so November is the perfect time to do the writing. Let us see if I manage
to complete my challenge, or if I allow other distractions to creep in…
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