Celebrate the small things

I'm ready for Friday this week . . . I was ready for Friday around Wednesday actually! Tiredness and a general feeling of only functioning on half power seemed to follow me all week. Hopefully the weekend will help me recharge. Maybe because of that feeling I have found it harder than usual to find things to celebrate this week. But thinking about the good things helps to put things into perspective so I dug deep and was pleasantly surprised by what I unearthed!

 * I completed and sent off a short story.

 * I caught up with some housework tasks in the evenings which should
    mean more time for me over the weekend.

 * I had a nice telephone call with a friend.

 * For a few weeks I have been having some dental treatment which
   finished yesterday. So hurrah for that! My bank balance may be a
   little lighter but hopefully I won't need to visit the dentist again for a
   while.

Happy weekend

Thanks to Lexa and her lovely co-hosts

 L.G. Keltner @ Writing Off The Edge 

Tonja Drecker @ Kidbits Blog

Celebrate the small things

This week I'm celebrating our town's traditional May festivities. There will be bluebells and gorse and dancing and music and (hopefully!) sunshine.

Happy weekend

Thanks to Lexa and her lovely co-hosts

 L.G. Keltner @ Writing Off The Edge 

Tonja Drecker @ Kidbits Blog

Insecure Writers Support Group (May)

Thanks to Alex J. Cavanaugh for hosting our monthly gathering.

With thanks also to this month's co-hosts;

 Stephen Tremp, Fundy Blue, MJ Fifield, Loni Townsend, Bish Denham, Susan Gourley, and Stephanie Faris

If I just say I've entered the submission ring again this week I'm sure all you writers out there will know how I'm feeling! A mixture of excitement and fear with a dollop of insecurity thrown in!

I would also like to share a quote that has been sitting on my desk over the last few weeks spurring me on in it's own way . . .

"Writers remember everything . . . especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar. 

Art consists of the persistence of memory."

By Stephen King author of Misery.