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Now You Know

So...I've been writing. Not just here, but other things.

I've been very careful with my dream, but I feel ready to share it. I'd love to be a writer. To have a book published. To do that job every day. That sounds just about perfect.

And I have some great ideas. At least I think they're great. So, for a while now, I've been jotting down my ideas whenever I have them. And now and then, I'd sit and write for a time.

But I have a fairly large family -- a husband and three children. I have a full-time job. I commute about 2 - 2 1/2 hours a day. And my husband and I (and the children at various times) do things together: we have television series we follow, we love comedy, we watch a lot of movies, we go out to dinner now and then, we do things on the weekend. Plus I read, like A LOT. So spare time is not exactly overflowing.

However, the time has come to stop dithering. It's time to actually do something.

Writers write.

So I've been writing here, on my blog, everyday unless there's a big reason not to (Yesterday was a big emotional upset, but we'll gloss over that for now.). And I've also been writing regularly on another project.

I've committed to doing this. I've also committed to working on and completing a single project. (which has been one of my issues -- too many ideas, and too little completion!)

So, I'm sharing with you that I'm working daily on my current project. My time is precious and limited, so it's not as much as I'd like to be doing, but it's consistent. And eventually, I will have completed a book.

Now how good that book turns out to be, we'll have to see.

But I WILL FINISH.

I am determined.

And now you know.

 

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Hard to be Heard

I have almost no voice.

You don't realise how important a voice is until you don't really have one.

I had some surgery a few months back that affected my throat, and my voice has never been the same. As my voice is now rough and very quiet, I struggle to be heard some days. And it's hard.

Today was a bad voice day. It happens. I managed to do what I had to do at work, but I've had to repeat myself many times today, both in person and on the phone. And then in person again when I got home, because I'm harder to hear sometimes after a long day at work.

And well-meaning people often ask me if I have a cold and tell me I sound 'terrible'.  I understand their concern and their kindness, but it's hard sometimes to be told just how badly you sound.

I don't know if my voice will ever completely come back. (Some days are pretty good, and others are quite bad, so it's hard to know.) And the doctors I've seen about it aren't sure either -- they're doing tests to see if they can help, but we're at the beginning of that process. I'm coping, and most days I'm okay with it, but sometimes...

It's really hard when you can't be heard. 

So this is my 'voice'. And on my blog people can 'hear' what I have to say. Even if it's only a few people, writing here gives me a way to say very clearly whatever I want or need to say.

So, to anyone reading this, thanks for 'listening'. :-)

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