I'm sitting enjoying the peace and quiet, a day at home where I can just relax and do my own thing, after all the rush and busyness of the festive period. Don't get me wrong, I've loved it all, the singing and the church services and all the time spent with family, eating, drinking, walking and playing games. Its just nice to have one day and sit and reflect on the past month, and on the last day of 2014, the whole year too. I've been working on my main story over the last month and its coming along well. I read some of it at one of the Writer's Group manuscript evenings and received some positive feedback, so I'm looking forward to coming back to it now after a short break and seeing where the story will take me next. I've also started another story, gaining inspiration and the idea from a few of my favorite films, so will be interesting to see where I go with that one too. I've tried to spend my lunch breaks whilst at work on reading as well as writing, and it seems to be working well, so will carry that routine on into the new year. I find that I also write much better that way, I'm not forcing myself to do just writing, I'm not sure I would like the end results, if there were any, if I was to work like that constantly.
I feel I made the right decision to stop writing this blog on a daily basis, I was spending too much time worrying about what to write and focusing on that, then losing the time to do any other writing. But I did do what I set out to do, which is write more, so a good positive came out of it, and I feel I have much more to say after a month!
Looking back over the year, I'm pleased with how far I've come. I joined the Writers Group back in January and I'm so glad I did. I never thought I'd now be able to say that I've had pieces published in an anthology as well as be contributing to a local newspaper column! I've written two columns now, and after receiving positive comments from the first one, am looking forward to the second coming out in early January. I have lots of ideas for future columns so will see what happens. Who knows what the new year will bring with my writing..... I'm excited to find out!
