Last week was just a whirlwind of stuff. Seriously, I felt like I ran flat out through the week with flailing muppet arms. There was no time for playing around on social media, no blogpost time scheduled and definitely no going to the gym.

I was up against a deadline that happened to coincide with an already heavily scheduled calendar. Happily, normal life resumes today as I handed over the story yesterday so now it sits in the laps of the gods*.

I’ve deliberately now given myself two weeks of downtime. I’ll be doing NaNoWriMo again this year and I know I won’t fit in a full length project between now and then. Instead of seeing this as frustrating, I am seeing it a blessing. It will give me a chance to get the business side of life up straight (yay – taxes) as well as work on those smaller pieces that somehow always get pushed onto the back burner.

It will soon be time to think about what to even write for NaNo. Hopefully the downtime will free that creative space back up in my brain and I can come up with something that will engage me to plough through a disciplined 50,000 words before I go on a mini-sabbatical at the end of November.

Now that part of things I am really looking forward to.

*may be a mild overstatement