This week, you may have noticed, I posted five times.
Last weekend I decided to try writing things ahead and then utilizing the blog’s “schedule post” feature so they would magically appear, as if predestined.
This has been a trial run but not a trial. I’ve kinda liked it. Schedules in my world are always for flexing, but this one may last a while.
Also this week I finished an essay. After long months of existence in various forms, it became ready to send out. Not that I hadn’t already sent it, receiving rejection upon rejection in return. But now I know it’s better, stronger, having received confirmation from a professional, whose good critiquing service I availed myself to.
Lisa Ohlen Harris is an amazing writer. Her essays have been published in numerous journals (she even knows which journals are respectable enough to warrant a try at publication). She has received recognition in Best American Essays 2009 and Best Spiritual Writing 2010. What I care about, though, is her awesome editing and teaching skill. She even blogs now, too, and you can read her posty expressions here.
Well, I’m off, for a weekend of sleeping in (possibly till 7:00, whoo hoo!), treadmilling, even going outside to breathe deeply near the river, and jotting thoughts in my notebook before the start of another working-at-it, word-filled week.
Thanks for letting us share in this with you.
And in these extra words.
Which are always a gift.
Find great and simple pleasures this weekend, Deanna.
ahhh…another blog to check out. I’ll bookmark it for later. :) I think the advanced scheduling worked well, and I hope you sell your essay.
Words are the gift for me, Deb. Sharing them’s a bonus, as you undoubtedly know.
Thanks, Jodi, though probably the best to hope for is another publishing credit, with little to no remuneration. :o)