Saturday night and I'm looking forward to two days off from my babysitting duties. I love my grandson to distraction, but two days to pursue my own interests, even if it's laying around reading all day, sounds so good to me.
Tomorrow I am going to have the first hot stones massage of my life and I'm a little apprehensive simply because it's something new that I know nothing about. Isn't that true about so much in life? I mean we can't know everything about everything, but it's hard to either ask for information or to just go ahead and try something new.
For any writer who's reading this, it applies to writing genres too. For instance, if you're a writer of fiction who's never written nonfiction, trying your hand at an article or a book about something you know about or are interested in learning about could be a way to refresh your writing. Vice versa too. I've written a lot of nonfiction stuff, and I can't tell you what a delight it was to write a novel for middle-graders. What fun. Now I'm back to writing nonfiction again but looking forward to trying something else fictional too.
Sometimes you just have to jump into the unknown or you get stale and there's nothing worse than stale, done-two-million times-before writing.
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