Who knew???
The blog is fixed! Now, while I might think this cause for a national holiday, I realize it’s impact upon others might be slightly less significant. The most amazing part of this entire “broken, more broken, upgrade and it’s still broken, ahhhh to hell with it for a few months” process is that I fixed it entirely by myself. Usually when things become this complicated I shove it onto M’s plate. Not this time. And the fix was really ridiculously simplistic. Literally a matter of clicking a new link structure choice and reloading my settings. (ugh yes…this took me months to figure out…scary I know) But, I found it myself, didn’t freeze up in the face of tech jargon overload, and I now have a fully functional blog again! Happy dancing ensues.
This turns out to be a fortuitous fix, as I am renewed in my urge to keep the blog flowing. In a real gift from the Universe kind of moment, I got an out-of-the-blue email from a facebook friend that found the blog, read it, and holy of holies – was positively affected by the reading. Wow…just wow. It was for that very reason I started doing this. The idea that there might be other people out there, trying to find their way to their own writing space. That maybe seeing someone else sharing the difficulties and the good stuff, would help them feel…not quite so alone.
I get caught up in thinking nothing I have to say here could possibly unique or brilliant enough to make a difference to anyone. I flog myself in the name of personal humility. Who am I? Why on earth would anyone care that this damned book is taking more than four years to crank out a rough draft, and my children are increasingly deserving of the title demonic horde? That’s not where the good stuff is at though, folks. The places that touch us are the ones we can feel, the ones we recognize. It’s the shared space. That’s where we can really see ourselves, and each other. And so, I am in turn inspired by a person who, for no reason other than to say thank you, saw me and recognized me. That really couldn’t have happened in a sweeter or more opportune way.
As for book status. I’m about 2/3 of the way through Chapter 23, and am thinking it will end up being 26 as opposed to 25 in total. Nearly there! So close I can taste it really. The last chapters are fully flushed, outlined and its really just a matter of getting the climactic moments on paper. Then it’s the first round of edits before sending it to my volunteer readers. On so many levels it feels surreal to type these words. To acknowledge anywhere but inside my own skull that I’m this close. But there it is.
On a closing note, all archive links and the comments currently work. Have a field day folks!
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