Promise to Self -- Finish Something!

Once again, I am finding it difficult to keep my promise to myself. Making a living has again intruded upon my creative pusuits. I find that I need reminders in the form of personal pep-talks. While searching my files for ideas, I came across something I wrote last year when I first decided to write for a living.

I put it aside to finish another day, probably to do something else that was "more important." Upon rereading, I discovered that it was actually very close to being finished. Another half hour (at most) would have polished it.

So my goal for today is to finish Having It All, and then to return to this edition of She Reads in a Tree to publish it with a link to my newly-polished-year-old article. My next goal (after I finish some writing for which I am being paid), is to go through the stack of other semi-finished articles and finish them.

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The author is a freelance writer, a teacher, and the mother of three boys. Her website, The Writing Tutor, provides writing tips and writing guides, as well as lesson plans and writing assignments.