Sometimes as writers we become so involved with our writing that we neglect other parts of our lives. If you remember from my last post, after coming home from a very relaxing vacation I read a critical review of my recently published work. This new info sent me into a downward spiral, starting with questioning myself and my work and evolved into burying myself in revisions on another novel. My beloved husband stomped around the house cleaning and giving me grief for not. Please note that this was Sunday and I usually leave Sundays free to spend time with my family and of course get things ready for the upcoming week. So his complaints were somewhat justified and I am not one to remind him of all the Sundays he was working while I was alone with the kids.
But, I digress, this is about me. By the end of Sunday night I had finished with the rewrites that I would need by Wednesday and had recovered somewhat from my review response. Monday comes: we take the girls to meet their teachers and are home by 10:30, I go into my office and write a post for my site. I take a lunch break, clean up a pile of dishes that had accumulated in the kitchen (although I’m not sure how we had only been home a little over 24 hours). After convincing the girls to do a little picking up I take them to the store to pick up a few last minute supplies for school along with some stuff to make dinner. When we return I’m back in my office writing another post the one referred to earlier. This time I end up working beyond the normal time I would have stopped to make dinner. Guess what happens next, Husband in my office accusing me of obssession. We have words about this and instead of continuing to work, I go and make dinner and then clean the kitchen for the second time. After clean up I finish up my blog post and then get the girls settled for the night.
Now to today, we deliver the girls to their first day of school and now I sit here feeling strangely unpressured and like I have nothing to do. Not that I don’t have writing projects, but none seem as pressing as what I felt on Sunday and Monday.
I am browsing facebook and come across a post on a blog I follow: http://www.marydemuth.com. The post: Great Advice for New and Not So New Writers and I highly recommend it for all writers.
Her advice was to keep things in their proper place. Remember why you write. Most importantly keep God and your family in front of all you do.
The message I got was loud and clear: Yes the writing is important, but no more important than God and family. God will find a way to make all things happen in their proper time and place. If I had only gone to Him on Sunday when I first read the review, He would have eased the path and this morning instead of sitting here with seemingly nothing to do, I could have been finishing up the necessary rewrites for tomorrow.
God made a way, I just refused to see it.
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God Bless
Christina Weigand
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