We’re at the
end of our first full week of 2014 but it seems like more than a week and a
half has passed since we rang in the New Year.
This was a long week for me, especially since it’s only the second full
week of work I’ve put in at my day job for over two months. However, it is nice to finally get back on
track with a regular routine, even if I still hate the alarm in the morning as
much as I always have.
The New Year
means the busy holiday season is over, traffic is not as stressful and I can
run errands during my lunch break without swimming against large crowds. It means way too many weight-loss commercials
during re-runs which are showing in place of the continued long breaks from our
regular shows. It means catching
glimpses of Valentine’s Day cards and other trinkets for your loved ones right
next to decorations for St. Patrick’s Day.
And for some, it also means getting more serious about whatever weight
loss resolution you may have made when you see the skinny-mini bikinis already
on sale.
What the New
Year means for me is getting back to my regularly scheduled program of my life
as a writer. I’ll admit life does get
busy off and on throughout the year so that my writing schedule might suffer
but the holiday months are definitely the worst. There are too many distractions with no true
schedule so that the time I get to write is more random and less fulfilling. While the months of January through March are
more quiet than most (except for those nasty storms), it’s a good quiet which
allows me to savor the moments as I brace myself for what needs to be done to
break in the New Year.
And I’m
certainly ready. As I’ve already said, I believe this is going to be a great year.
There are so many more opportunities for indie authors and it’s just
going to get better, even if it does get more competitive. I’ve been reading a few of the predictions
other writers have made for the year 2014:
Joe Konrath’s version is here and another recent article by Mark Coker on HuffPost Books is here. While these
predictions may or may not come true and they may or may not affect me, what I
do agree with is that the world of publishing is changing very quickly, in good
ways and especially for self-published authors, and I am thrilled to be a part
of it.
So let’s bring
on the New Year!
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