A Look Back on the Eve to Look Ahead
via lizaso
, it should’ve been a picture of a roller coaster. As metaphors go, however, it’s more like white water rafting because I’m in a completely different place in my writing life from where I began.
A.K.A. The Preview of the Last Week of 2013
I’m sea sprayed and fa-la-la-la’d out.
And yet, I feel that it was over before I could really get into it.
Since most of this past week was spent in a different hemisphere, I have little to report that isn’t vacationesque. However, I’ll give you the skinny on what I plan on doing this coming week.
LEARNING (a.k.a. 5 Aha Moments on My Writing Journey)
I consider myself a perpetual student in the School of Life (more on that in my Week in Review post this coming Sunday). Thus, writing is a lifelong process with constant room for improvement. As with life, in writing I’m always learning something new each day and it makes me a better writer.
Jingle bells and ukeleles, everyone!
Merry Christmas! I wish worldwide joy and happiness on this and every day.
Only twenty-five rotations around the sun since I’ve been to Maui and I gotta say–it’s still warmer than my home and native land. Family holiday photos on the beach at sunset? Check. Waking up at 0200 to head up to Haleakalā Moon Crater for a sunrise? Cheeeck. Delicious exhaustion. Check, check, check, check, check.
Actually, let me edit that. There were moments–looooong moments–yesterday where I was certain my fingers and toes would remain up at Haleakalā National Park when we finally made the descent.
Poi.
Kālua pork.
Grass skirts.
If that doesn’t scream Christmas, I don’t know wha–oh, right.
Well, you make do with what you’ve got, yeah?
Given the literal bone-chilling alternative, complete with snow, I’d gladly trade in a white Christmas for sea spray. (Ugh, that moment when you realize you’ll be returning to said bone-chilling alternative before long.)
Textploits of the Writerly Persuasion 