We're Baaaaaaaaack...

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."
-- Mark Twain

In my world, writing is not unlike the laundry that piles up. I stare at it, hoping with all my might that it will do itself. I easily get it out of the hamper. Like ideas in my head, sometimes things just overflow and you have to make room for more whether you want to or not.

I can get some ideas down on paper, or onto a brand new sparkling clean Word doc. The idea of having everything organized, clean and fresh is very appealing. But then I have to make myself transfer the clothes from the washer to the dryer -- before I forget and they start to smell. Like the bits of ideas that I throw together on the screen or the page...if I don't tend to them quickly I forget why they're there -- and that stinks.

But my biggest problem is not doing the job, but finishing it. Clean dry clothes tumbling around in the dryer...and getting them folded, hung up and in the right room into drawers and closets is my biggest downfall. In my writing life sometimes the worst part is finishing up, making things tidy and putting it all into its place.

And sometimes, I just walk over the pile of laundry, like for a couple of weeks like I walked over this blog. You know, when you close your eyes you don't even see it, and with enough practice you don't even trip. You just go about your day...

But don't worry, eventually it gets done...and like the thoughts and meanderings here.

So y'all come back now, y'hear?