It's been a long time...

Way too long actually but after my pc sort of caught fire--okay, there were no flames but plenty of smoke--I fell into a deep, gloomy place. Not a pretty place. And this is not something I'm proud to admit to, either. Normally, I don't have these issues. But this hasn't exactly been an ordinary year.

I needed to find some sense of peace in my upside down world. I needed to write. In January, Forward Motion set up the Advanced Writers Board and of course, it has monthly challenges, so I thought I'd jump in with a writing goal. Write ANYTHING.

First couple of weeks didn't go to plan. (Talk about feeling crappier.) Then it came down to tough love--no surfing the net until I wrote in the morning. Yes, that meant no yahoo IM, either. I still had my obligation for FM but that was it.

Every morning, after the last child was out the door, I went upstairs to work on my laptop. (I made sure the wireless was turned off.) I wrote. And wrote. Some days it came to only 900 words, other days I would hit 4000 without thinking. And for the first time in a very long time, I felt centered. I felt happy. Then it happened, on Thursday at 11:50 AM, I finished Brooklyn.