Bumblebee

My head is buzz buzz buzzing with all sorts of ideas. Things have been quiet here on the blog, but my head is a busy place! I’ve had some great conversations over the last 2 weeks (4 significant conversations in 2 weeks – mom-brain overload!) that have me thinking and drafting and writing. Most of it is too unformed to share just yet, but I’m excited about all the ideas.
One of the highlights was meeting Jen of The Pile I’m Standing In and Jenny of wickedweaving. I love these women and what they do. I’m so excited by the conversations I’ve had with both of them – meeting them in real life felt more like connecting with an old college friend than like meeting someone for the first time. I feel like they are helping me on the passionate path and are helping me find my voice.
Another exciting development was meeting with people from my church about vision and ideas. I am so encouraged and excited by those conversations – finding there’s much more room there for dialogue than I thought. I have so many things about this that I need to get on paper, but every attempt so far has either ended up very flat, or has gone someplace else entirely. You know how sometimes you sit down to write a certain thing and it ends up something totally else? There’s a great part in Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell where Lady Pole keeps trying to tell people she’s enchanted, but always ends up telling a long story about teakettles, or digging gardens. She is bewitched and is unable to say what she wants. It feels a bit like that.
Hopefully I’ll have more to say here soon. I wish I had all the time in the world to write. Sadly, I have small chunks inbetween my real-life duties. I also continue to be amazed how difficult the writing process is – long, hard, inefficient work. My husband has been amazingly generous with his time, to give me so much time lately. He also told me an encouraging story about how some people found a bunch of Hemingway’s drafts and they were pretty crappy too.
I’m eager to get some of this buzzing out of my head and onto the page.

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