I allowed myself to take the month of December off from writing - which, in the freelance world is often more about selling yourself than actually stringing words together - to recharge and enjoy the holidays. Oddly, when the beginning of January came I was out of sorts with myself and having a hard time getting back to business. Of course it doesn’t help that it seems like every editor in the business has been out of the office since the holidays.

During this time I’ve been thinking and pondering and ruminating over an idea for a book. I reread this book. And on Monday I was inspired to go for it. I did some research and verified that there isn’t anything quite like this out there. It’s non-fiction and completely out of the realm of anything I’ve done before (read: scary), but I’ve spent the past several days working on a proposal for this book idea. And after having not written much for the past 6 weeks, it’s so good to feel like the words are coming in the appropriate order again. Coming at all, for that matter. So far, I’ve got seven pages complete and I find myself hurrying to be done with other stuff so I can write some more. Inspiration. It’s a good thing.

I still need to do some market research and fine-tune the thing, but hopefully by this time next month - or sooner - I’ll be shopping for an agent!