Storytime

It is official...the year is half over. Half of it gone without a trace. Whizz. Zoom. Goodbye. I swear it was just February the other week..but here we are, and with repeated checking of all available calendars...it is the end of June. We know it is winter because of the cold, and the rain, and did I mention the cold? But the fact is that a good one hundred and eighty or so days have gone by and I'm left wondering what have I done? In truth quite a lot of things. There has been Cats the musical with daughter....there has been two plays with various children....been days spent up at my sister's place and doing not much...a few garden shows, okay quite a few.....and friendly catch ups.....Purple Rain and biscuit decorating classes....Goodbyes and welcomes....children sleepovers and some outings....and a bit of writing. This year I cleverly set up a file for each month. Very easy to see what exactly has been done..and when.  For me, it's a good system a...

Hmm it's that time of the year when, as a writer, I begin to wonder what on earth have I done? I look at my goals for the year and even though there are notes, perhaps even scratchings on most of them....I'm still wondering what has been accomplished. My writing group last month also revisited their goals. It was an interesting meeting to hear how some have been working dedicatedly at knocking down their goals, systematically bit by bit. Some knew exactly what they were aiming for and what steps they would have to take to get there. Others were amazed at how different their actual accomplishments were to the goals they wanted to achieve at the beginning of the year.  And a few, who knew that this year would be unsettled for various reasons and hadn't made any goals were able to think of a few that could be achieved by the end of the year. But that is what is so fairy floss about goals. They are not set in concrete.  They are too easily moulded and reshaped, and whe...