Getting Started....Again

While teaching is my day job, writing has been the dream job since high school. There was a time when I wrote so often and with such passion that it seemed as essential as breathing. But then life happened in large quantities and the most I've written lately is a well crafted email to a co-worker.

There was a time when I was finishing manuscripts and writing query letters and daydreaming of the day I would find my name embossed across a glossy cover in the Young Adult section. But over the last few years, my laptop has felt more like an enemy than a friend, and writing has become as easy as uni-cycling uphill juggling chainsaws....backwards. Self-doubt, self-criticism, and I are bosom buddies now.

I told myself repeatedly that I will find my groove again.

I'm just too busy during the school year. I'll get back into writing over summer break. 

I'm just too tired from the day to day of taking care of the kids and the house and the cooking and the million other things we do as moms. I'll start writing again when I catch up on sleep. 

I'm just not inspired enough right now. I'll start writing again when creativity hits. 

Excuse after excuse after excuse...

And, then, life took an interesting turn for all of us, and I found myself suddenly teaching online and
homeschooling and having time to get caught up on all those things I usually spend my school breaks doing. So, I decided it was time to stop talking about and thinking about and wishing I was writing again and actually start writing again.

So this is it. The beginning of my writing journey. Or journey back into writing.

I have no idea where's it going to take me yet, but the first time in a long time I'm excited to find out.

Wish me luck!