Prompt #
67 - Priorities
My first
priority is work. My work is writing. Creative writing. My project
this last year has been writing a novel. The Rocking Girl. I consider
it literary fiction although it is also quite accessible (IMHO). I
make my work a priority by keeping to a work schedule and putting
work before socializing or recreation. So my goal for 2015 is to
self-publish The Rocking Girl on Amazon. I am apprehensive. About the
technical challenge of uploading. About the emotional challenge of
“putting it out there” where it (and thus, me) is vulnerable.
I wanted
to write the kind of book I like to read. With a female protagonist,
Wyn McBride. Set in British Columbia, Canada. Incorporating art,
poetry, music, history, geology, genealogy. It involves a quest--a
search for self, for belonging, for home. It aims to be positive,
uplifting, enlightening. Like my former writer hero said, it is a
story without villains, where the conflict is internal and
inter-personal. It involves “deep travel”, a return to the
ancestral home in Ireland, where the most important aspect of the
journey is what the traveller learns about herself.
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