End of year gratitude

As it comes to the end of 2014, I'm feeling very grateful. I'm thankful that I had some real writing working and articles published this year: I'm further ahead in writing than I was last year. Having made some extra income from writing just before Christmas helped me to be less worried about the money we were spending on the holidays. Also, it meant that I got myself a new writing tool in the Boxing Day sales:

IPad Mini and Logitech keyboard

For Christmas my husband got me something that will help my productivity. Now I can make myself one little teapot and refill my cup once without having to make more tea.

Finally, I'm appreciative of finishing class and the worksheets I was writing so that I can now return to writing my own novel manuscript, which is almost finished. I feel very creative and the words are flowing well in the mornings at the moment. So I guess I'm also thankful that I don't have to go to work this week so that I can write for as long as I want.

Now I just need to think about goals and resolutions for 2015. Does anyone else know of writerly resolutions that I could appropriate?

The dangers of blogging

When I was talking to my mum the other day at Christmas, she said she'd been quite worried about my hip problems until I'd told her what was going on. She had read on here that it was bothering me. I guess because of the snippets of information I'd written she jumped to a far more serious conclusion about the source of the pain than I had. Similarly my grandmother recently mentioned that she'd read this blog and agreed with something I'd said. Therefore, I have to be aware that when I blog, people might actually be reading it. In my head I'm blogging 70% for myself and 30% with some unknown person somewhere in the world in mind. I don't generally try to be cryptic, but sometimes I'm writing to process things for myself and I don't have all the information yet, as in the case of my hip issues. Alternatively I withhold some details out of privacy for myself and my family; hence I don't use names or places in these posts. In the future I guess I'll try to be more aware of what I'm writing about. Since this blog is supposed to be about gratitude and enjoyment of life, I shouldn't be whinging about issues anyway, really.

And... I'm done!

Last night I went to bed with quite a sense of accomplishment. I finished and sent off the last few phonics worksheets. Then, right before closing the computer down, my husband helped me get an ABN (Australian Business Number). Now I can properly invoice people who I write and edit for. Suddenly this feels like a legitimate business rather than merely a pipe dream.

Mixed blessings

For the past week, and for the next week, I have work for a freelance writing project. I have been tasked with creating 40-odd phonics worksheets. When I accepted the job, I only saw the positive side. Now I'm noticing the negatives too (although they don't outweigh the positives).