2023 - Let it be!

Hey, everyone!

It's me... I know it has been a while. And by a while, I mean 5 months. I don't even know where to start again but here I am.

After NaNoWriMo, I think I just burnt out between being so determined and committed to winning for the first time ever and all the pressure and stress that I had going on at work at the time... I just crashed. Initially, I was just going to give myself off for December to recover but then January happened... Hubby and I bought over a business and things just escalated from there.

I have missed writing... When it has been as long as this, I was at a loss where to start but I was going to find a way. I have come too far to just give up and let that dream of publishing go.

Another part of the crash was the pressure that comes with thinking that the only way to get published was through a nice big publishing house but that comes with its own set of expectations. You need to have an email list with a certain amount of followers... social media, you need to have a certain amount of presence and followers, as well as a marketing plan and so much more.

As much as I dream about being published by Hay House or Pengiun, I had to take a step back and I realised that that was not my goal overall. My goal is to publish my story, one way or another. My story will reach the right people at the right time as long as I have the courage to get it out there. It might not be the Eat Pray Love I dream it to be but it is my story and it matters. Someone out there needs to read it and it will give a few some hope, if not be a tiny light in the darkness.

I was torn between going back to finish my travel memoir and begin with draft 2 or whether I should finish the novel that I got so far into for NaNoWriMo 2022. This also seemed overwhelming so I settled with getting back on Twitter and writing this blog post. If the steps are too big then we need to break it down into bitesize manageable snacks.

So here I am again and it feels good to be typing away on these keys on my laptop. If nothing else, I am doing this for me but I hope that my story and journey will help me connect with you.

I don't always know the right things to say or what to post but I figured that following my heart and intuition is a good start/re-start/re-re-start.

Let it be. Let it be. And so it will unfold as everything is meant to.

All my love

Chené