Gaining perspective

I continue to write daily. Yippee! I was afraid that, as Christmas got closer, I would mess up and decide to wrap gifts or bake goodies instead of write. So far though I am keeping to my promise to myself to write each day without fail. Of course, I don't have all my gifts bought yet so that may become a problem later on.

The trouble is that I have three projects that I am currently working on. I want to finish them all but, when I am busy working on one, I get an idea for one of the others, so I go back and forth and nothing ever gets finished. Does anyone else have this problem?

I found the name of an agent who is currently looking for the type of non-fiction book I am writing (inspirational) and would really like to finish at least one so I could submit it. Not that I have to complete the entire book--with nonfiction, you can submit an outline and table of contents and a summary for a proposal and, if you sell it, complete the book. So that is all I have to finish now.

I love blogging! I just reminded myself of something that I know and, in fact, have taught in nonfiction workshops and in my online workshop on writing nonfiction, that I only need to get the outline, table of contents and a summary and tentative word count and I will have enough to send to an agent. So, instead of concentrating on the actual body of the book, that is what I'll do!

Sometimes we get so close to a problem we forget what we already know and go off on a tangent. I think that happens not only about writing but about life and relationships in general. So maybe writing a journal or a blog and putting your thoughts down make you look carefully at what you're doing and you gain perspective. Today's blog has certainly done that for me. Hope it's helped you too.