Review, return, reprioritisation and hope.
- HIGHCROFT WRITING
- Dec 6, 2018
- 2 min read
Updated: Dec 7, 2018
There has been a break in the writing on this site. In November, I posted brief notes every day on social media, as part of National Novel Writing Month or #nanowrimo. Amidst real life, I tried to meet the challenge and write a novel. I now have 15720 words in a document and the awareness that there is too much going on right now to put my heart and time in to a novel.
I do not like failing to deliver. My career history was primarily project management. I do order, timeliness, planning and delivery.
Then I remembered that prioritisation, reprioritisation, restructuring and redesign are sometimes the absolute right things when new factors arise.
I am making the best decision that I can right now. I don't like some of the choices, and I don't like some of the outcomes, but they have absolutely been the best decisions I could make at any given time. So, I'm good with that. I know my inspirations and I know my priorities. I am grateful that there are people and opportunities calling on my time.
I will go back to that 'novel'. Sometime. It just will not be today or tomorrow. Until its published, either self or otherwise, here's the current iteration of the opening paragraph.
"I know the moment I decided to do something about this. I was stood in the dark with a glass of wine in my hand. The sound of them arguing made me pause in the darkness. It was my choice to intervene, break it up and fix whatever needed fixing, or leave them to it. My heart just wasn’t sure what the best outcome was, so I stood in the dark, with a glass of wine in my hand, just breathing. I used to be afraid of the dark, that place where you couldn’t see your markers and anything could happen. Now it seemed like hope."
*The photograph is one taken by the Author during a visit to the Harris Museum and Art Gallery.
The painting is 'Girl Reading' by Harold Knight (1874-1961).
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