One bite at a time
Yesterday I had a great meeting with my agent to talk about the state of my current submission (waiting for word, fingers and toes crossed to cramping). We also talked about my new project which I’m just starting to work on.
I attempted to explain my new idea which is bigger and more complicated than anything I’ve ever worked on. My agent was very excited by the concept and knew it could be fab, but could see the complexity of it all. She could also see my FEAR seeping through all my enthusiasm. She knew I was a little afraid of the project and assured me I could do it if I just took it piece by piece, one page at a time.
Sometimes looking at the whole can be just too much and send you running from the challenge but if you just take it one page at a time or bite or step it’s a lot easier to make the journey.
I’m think I’m on my way.
Best,
Kwana
image from here
Morning Joe
Happy Monday! Hope you all had a great weekend. My last few days have been super busy but now it’s time for a little R & R with writing work thrown in (I hope lots).
If you haven’t been in a while I invite you to take your morning cup of Joe and hop over to my other spot Becoming True Me and see what’s doing over there.
Best,
Kwana
Lesson In The Frustration?
What’s wrong with this picture? Why it’s the fact that the knitting is not on the needles as it should be. See I made some sort of mistake in my last lacy row and now my count is off and I have no clue how to fix it and I must start over…again.
So I’m going back to zero and unwinding. I put the knitting down for a full week as I thought of going forward with the mistake but I knew in my heart I couldn’t do it. There would be a flaw in the pattern. The only way forward was to go back and start over.
So painful as it is this is where I am now. Unwound and snipped off and back to the starting point.
Of course there is an obvious lesson in this pain that has to do with life and writing that’s hitting me on the head that I’m sure will make a great speech later when I’m feeling more accomplished, but right now I’m just feeling like a person that can’t walk, chew gum and knit.
Best,
Kwana
Note to Universe
Are you on Summer Hours?
Just asking. Wishing I could be but can’t shut the brain off and do moms get summer hours? Not really.
Best,
Kwana
Oh Deer
What’s Jack up to? Jack has been pretty quiet this weekend. Hanging in the hall closet when it got too warm and chilling in the shade when he wanted to catch a breeze. The closet thing is funny because it’s such an eyesore and I sometimes forget he’s in there and close the door on him. He really had better learn to pipe up when I go to close it because I’m afraid that one day I’m going to go out and close him in there for a long while.
We have been overrun with deer in our town this summer which is so early in the year to see them. This guy was hanging out across the street at about 4 in the afternoon going for my neighbor’s tomatoes on Friday. I waited until he left to go to my car.
And on Saturday when the DH was cleaning the cooler on our back porch a family of deer went running past him.
This is all a little toovery Wild Kingdom for this city girl. Yikes!
Have a great week.
Best,
Kwana
Half Gone
What’s Jack up to? As I write this Jack is still in trouble but has a full belly since he got to a whole pack of hot dog buns while the family was out shopping. I guess the buns were too close to the edge of the counter and fair game for Jack so my bad and it’s back to the grocery for me. Grrrrr!
Happy Monday and Happy August. I can’t believe that over half the summer is gone. This is the last week of the dear Twins summer jobs which makes me sad. I feel that time has just spun away and once again I’m running to catch up.
Once the kids are out we’ve only got a few weeks to get our minds straight for …gulp, SENIOR YEAR. I can’t believe it. These last few weeks I will be busy with getting the twins ready for school and hopefully getting college on their minds by visiting a few. I’d also like to slow down and enjoy the time with them as much as them being teens and me being mom will allow me to do:) (All day in the mall with The Diva yesterday and I’m pooped).
So that said, I may be sporadic on the blog at times and light on words so please forgive me if I am. Do come back though. I plan on having a great artist interview this week and some other fun.
Wishing you a great and sunny week even if it’s rainy which is what expected a lot in the NYC this week.
Best,
Kwana
image: window chime from DS
It’s Sunday
And I will have a good day or a least a few good moments that I make sure to carve out for myself. THAT is my pledge. Care to join me is a good lounge?
Best,
Kwana
Painting: Odalisque with Gray Trousers‘ Henri Matisse 1927 From The MET
P.S. It’s Matisse and it’s from the Met so it should be cool right? I thought so too 🙂
I’m In A Mood
The new season of Project Runway started last night and I’m in a mood. Not in a major mood, a minor one really, but a mood nonetheless. See it’s over two things (well, more but I refule to really brood here):
- The show was an hour and a half and I hope this is not the new format because that just doesn’t work for me. Who has the time?
- One of the highlights of the show is the weekly trip to Mood fabrics and letting the designers out in the wild so when Tim Gunn talked about the “Mood annex” and opened up a door with a bit of fabric in barrels attached to the workroom I was very disappointed and went to twitter to see I was not alone. I hope this is rethought.
Still I will be back next week with contestants names Mondo and Casanova how can I not? Did you watch?
Have a great weekend!
Best,
Kwana
Fuel for thought
Most of my writerly friends are in Orlando at the RWA national conference this week and honestly my heart is there too. I’ll be fighting hard this week not to live in a state of regret and oh I should have just gone for it and what the heck with the money zone. In order to combat that I’ll be listening to old workshops that I may have missed on my ipod and working on my next project and drinking lots and lots of coffee.
Here’s hoping for a productive week. Wishing I were having my annual Nora spotting though.
Best,
Kwana
P.S. Droid update: I have to get a new phone something is wonky with mine but it’s not in the store so I must keep this until it’s shipped to me. Patience is not my thing but I will deal. My BIG complaint: Why Verizon is it not shipped to the store and held for me for an exchange? Why must I pay for 2 phones and will then get my money back for one once I (Me?) send the broken one to you? That does not seem right.
P.P.S this is not new news. I did kindly tell this to the customer service person in Verizon and on the phone. Just had to blog it like I blogged how excited I was over getting the Droid.
P.P.P.S (huh?) I was no all rude like the Fla man who apparently did not have an hour for the technician to fix his phone because “he would lose too much business in and hour. As a matter of fact his business could shut down in an hour. Did we all have any idea how much money he could lose in that time. An hour? It was just crazy… Blah, Blah Blah….! ” Let the record show in the 45 minutes he ranted his phone did not ring once. I guess Mr. Trump was not calling.
Oh and I can’t stop talking. Head over to Becoming True Me to discuss Is God On MY Plate? Here.
Vamp It Up
What’s Jack up to? As I write this, Jack is pacing back and forth and every once in a while stopping to give me “the look” as if to say, “uh when are you going to feed me lady?” Uh oh now he’s just stopped and is starring. Going for the hard intimidation. Oh Jack I know your tricks. Patience please.
I hope you had a good weekend. Mine was nice. I had fun with my new phone until it started to act all wonky and turned on a off a bunch of times and now I can’t find a load of pictures which seems to have disappeared. So now I’ve turned sad and have to visit Verizon and there is nothing I hate more. It really feels like I have bad phone Karma lately. And those were great picture of the DH and I was just going to download them when I noticed they were not there. I hope there is a way to recover them.
In a small silver lining my most recent pictures from the weekend did not disappear. This weekend I had a real treat. The world of blogging is so odd. You have these strange relationships based on comments of snippets of a life a person felt free enough to share. I mean who knows how truthful or authentic the person on the other end of the computer is being? Are they who they portray themselves to be? It could all be smoke and mirrors and you could finally meet a person that you have a little blog crush on and it could be like meeting a star that you’ve seen in the movies and you’re like, “crap, they were much taller on screen.”
Well folks, I’m happy to say I got to meet one, well two, of my blog crushes this weekend when my buddy Patricia (PVE) had Valorie, The Visual Vamp and her sweet love Alberto from New Orleans over for lunch.
I couldn’t wait to grab the DH and run up the hill to see them (not run, drove really, no running for this girl). First off the DH did think I was a little cra-zy. You’re meeting another blogger from where? Well not five minutes into our meeting he was just as taken as I was by Valorie and Alberto. They are two of the loveliest, sweet, funny and genuine people you’d ever want to meet.
And they tangoed for us!!! So beautiful. It’s now on my list.
Sunday afternoon was a great day. Thanks for a great lunch, Patricia. And it was a good feeling for me to come out from behind the computer myself and to meet someone who instantly felt like a friend and who was just what she presented herself to be…really real and a good vamp.
Best,
Kwana
