I have focused most of my writing in the past few days/week on sitting with a pad and pen instead of using my high tech writing utensil, the computer. I've been putting myself in the frame of my protagonist and playing with her thoughts & feelings to see if I can come up with an ending. While ideas have come to me about other parts of the book, the actual ending still eludes me, but it's waving at me from the periphery trying to make its way into my heart/mind and onto the paper. I AM ALMOST THERE!!!!

By the way, I love greeting cards. I have stores of them in my closet. I buy them and then put them in pretty storage boxes for future use. Sometimes, often in fact, I find cards I love so much that I don't want to give them away. Maybe this one is inspiring to me or that one has a magical water color on it or another one espouses the most wondrous phrase. The one I have currently to the left of my computer says:

"She learned to cup possibility in her hands."

That's what I'm doing with my writing. I'm learning to cup possibility in my hands. Too often we allow negative thoughts to run rampant through our gray matter without even realizing it, so it's helpful to have things to look at or little affirmations around that challenge these stalwart thought streams. I have these little round stickers too that I occasionally run across and bring out, sticking them everywhere I might see them. The stickers say:

"Something wonderful is about to happen."

They remind me to look at what might be upcoming as a delightful surprise, in the way that a child looks forward to opening a birthday present wrapped in colorful paper, rather than with trepidation.

So, my goal is to come up with the ending to my book by Sunday evening. I challenge you to work on , explore, play with your own writing, painting, music...or whatever your art consists of and move with it. XO