Last November, as I poked and prodded at this chatty granny, Maeve, for her story, I had the vague sense that she was, in many ways, the sort of granny my mom might have been, only with the added bit of actual, practical, tangible magic. Writing Maeve’s story made a few things very clear to me and started a chain reaction I wasn’t expecting but it really had very interesting timing.
I didn’t even notice the connection between this story and all the new things going on in my life until I started work this week on rewriting the story and getting it into shape. I always knew reading books could change your point of view, your outlook on certain things. It never really occurred to me that writing them could do something similar. In this case, it shined a light on something else I didn’t suck at doing as a kid.
Fortunately for me, the new direction isn’t one that will try and muscle out the writing part, except for the next week while I’ve got an online conference, a workshop, and the physiology class I’m taking (chemistry math still makes my head hurt – stupid moles). I’m not a very happy me or a very grounded me when I don’t have my stories. I sleep better when I have that creative output. I’m nicer probably too.
The world outside my house is a scary place right now and there’s all the rumblings of it getting worse before it gets better, but we’re just plodding along as best we can, the kids and I doing class work and my husband getting up and going to work. I do miss going places and doing things but I’m not taking chances – it sucked losing a parent as a teenager and as an adult, I don’t want to do that to the kids when I could just keep my immunocompromised butt HOME.
Today, I just decanted and pressed a yarrow/sunflower oil infusion and I’m in the mood to try my hand at a proper lotion and not a balm or whipped butter. I’m plodding along a bit but the new iteration of The Crow & Dragon is almost ready to go. Technically it’s live but it’s far from finished and I’m not happy with the layout just yet. I think I want to do a watercolor background for my listing photos but that isn’t happening this week.
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