Thursday, October 25, 2012

The Slow Project

Writing a book is no easy task. I started this project at the beginning of the year. It's very slow going but going none the less. Usually I work in spurts and I've struggled with the guilty voice that tells me I should dedicate all free time to this one thing. That's absurd of course but whose guilty voice isn't absurd?

There's a lot of research involved in addition to writing. I'm also putting a lot of photos in the book and there's a lot of photos to go through. I've started but am far from finished with that part. I've also started on almost every part but am far from finished. Writing. Reading. Researching. Brainstorming. More researching. More writing. Generally most of my projects are finished quickly. I work quickly with everything else but not this. This is painful. Painful in a good way...like climbing up a hill on my bike and my quads are on fire and I may just tip over (without EPO in case you're wondering).

Most of my free time is spent with my family and doing other things to take care of myself. Like working out, reading and being as far away from my 2 year old as possible. Just when I think she's going to drive me mad she shouts out "You're Welcome Mommy!!" just after I've said "Thank you!" Hey! Turns out she's learning manners from me after all! Who knew!