Today I am looking around my house, at my cluttered desk and the toys on the floor. The dirty dishes on the counter and the two bags of groceries on the table I have yet to put away after last night's trip to the store. And I'm starting to wonder, do I have to get organized before I can organize my thoughts?
I admit, the last couple of weeks have been a bit overwhelming. School started right after Labor Day and I was really excited about getting a lot of things done. Unfortunately, I didn't really consider exactly HOW MUCH I needed to get done. So I've decided it's time for me to get serious and set some priorities.
I was trying to put my work-in-progress as my first priority (after my family and church, of course), but now I'm realizing that I'm having trouble focusing on it because there are too many other things pulling at me. I took care of a few things this week, but these are the big ones I still have to take care of before I can get back to my book.
1. Clean my house, preferably with the help of the three children I still have living at home. I'm not talking about a serious spring cleaning, but at least enough tidying so that the kitchen looks the way I want it to and the floors are no longer an obstacle course.
2. Prepare for my upcoming class at The Book Academy in Utah on September 30th as well as my planned visits to two high schools, Summit Academy High School in Draper, Utah and Mingus Union High School in Cottonwood, Arizona. I have a lot of ideas of what I want to do, but I need to get them down on paper (or in computer) so that I can feel more organized.
3. Organize a few more details for my upcoming high school reunion. (I'm still not sure exactly how I ended up in charge of it.)
4. Take care of some administrative issues for my high school swim team before our first team/parent meet.
5. WRITE! Or rather, rewrite. Either way, Charlie Whitmore is demanding that his story get finished and I'm ready to find out what really happens.
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I'm rooting for you because I'm always looking forward to your next book.
I know I have to be organized before I can organize my thoughts or even be creative. My house is torn apart right now because we are repainting two rooms, there are canning supplies taking up space in the kitchen, and the floor hasn't been mopped in way to long (and it's driving me crazy.) Put all that together and it equals no writing this month at all.
Good luck with the class reunion. Somehow I ended up in charge of mine last year. I still haven't figured out how the invisible girl ended up with that job, but it went well.
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