“Don’t reinvent the wheel, just realign it.” Anthony J. D’Angelo
I had deemed the year 2016 as the year of my reinvention. I
had motivation signs – dream big, it’s never too, etc. I had received most of
the right back for the books I had published (for various reasons) so I needed
to do something if I was going to continue to be a published author.
So I hung the signs, made plans, did some market research
and braced myself. This was it, I would be an author first. The time was
prefect. The kids grown on their own. Rumors were the crazy day job was being
phased out.
Like Anthony J. D’Angelo said, I basically just had to
realign my wheel. I had completed novels to submit, novels that could be self-published.
Author life it was.
2016 did turn out to a big year of reinvention…but little
had to do with my writing. Life through a curve ball so instead of embarking on
the path of author life, I found myself gaining custody of my four-year-old
grandson and reinventing myself as a parent.
Now it’s May 2017 and I’m still trying to reinvent myself as
an author….and well how to keep up with a very high energy five-year-old. The
publishing world seems to change as often as my grandson’s favorite toy.
The key thing I forgot to incorporate in my grand scheme to
reinvent myself as super author is that my wheel is turned by more than writing….I
still had to be a wife, a grandmother (who became the sole parent), and mother
to grown children who would still have hiccups.
So as I move through the remainder of 2017 instead of
reinventing myself, I’m trying to realign myself so that writing has the focus
and time it needs to move from ‘hobby’ to ‘career.’
2017 – the year of realignment!
