My love and I closed our long-distance gap for two blissful weeks, during which time I can honestly say I barely thought about the sheer amount of work I need (want? am volunteering?) to do in the next two months and, in many ways, the next few years. Now that we’re back to our regularly scheduled programming, though, I can see why so many people endorse the idea of taking breaks.

I want to focus on multi-tasking, which I know seems like a bit of a contradiction but I swear the right balance works. On the one hand I’m working on some longer form projects, but on the other, I’m really the sort of person who needs a lot of successes and accomplishments in a short amount of time.

Being the kind of person who took ten years to write a very literary 200,000 word novel would absolutely kill me. I would be so bored. Out of my mind. I can do shorter commercial fiction, but I think a lot of the ideas that I have–and I do have a lot of them–would be better suited as short stories than as novels, and I think that taking the time to commit to re-writing some projects and re-imaging others as such would go a long way to clear the clutter in my mind as well as feed a sense of accomplishment while I spent time on longer works.

I don’t know what the right balance is, yet, but I’m sure it exists and I can’t wait to find it… if only I could manage to keep house at the same time.

Much love,

BH ❤