Hello everyone! After a long hiatus, I’m back from an extended three-week vacation around Florida, the Cayman Islands and Mexico. The break was a great opportunity for me to learn how to slow down and take it easy.
Posing on the Mayan Ruins. Clearly I need to do a lot of work on my yoga poses!
Prior to my vacation, I’d been feeling a bit discouraged about my writing. After fast-tracking through elementary school and university, I was faced with my career choice (writing) – something I couldn’t rush. The results seemed few and far between and I was mainly afraid of not being good enough or making a career-crippling wrong move early on. During my vacation, I realized that (as many mentors have tried to teach me before) in order to write one must first live to have things to write about. Furthermore, I realized that everything must come in its own time. Mistakes will be made and rejections will be had, but that’s all part of the process.
Although I’m currently having a two-day stop over here in Markham, I’ll be departing for Halifax this Sunday morning to attend the Writers and Exile retreat at the Tatamagouche Centre. Though I haven’t even attended the seminar yet, all of the people I’ve corresponded with thus far from Tatamagouche have been extremely encouraging and helpful.
I can’t wait to attend! I expect the retreat to be, not only a great experience, but just the kind of experience I need to further place my writing into perspective.