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The challenge — Staying Focused and working with distractions.
Lots can happen in one year — and it did for me.
2020 is now in the Rearview Mirror
Now that 2020 is behind me in the rearview mirror, I can fully focus 2021 on being that full-time writer I want to be for years.
On Wednesday, January 1, 2020 6:16 AM, I wrote the following in OneNote.
“Real writers do not have another job. The job of a writer is to write and only write. I have for the past several years wanted to buckle down and write.”
I found this note today: January 31, 2021. On this day exactly one year ago, we signed a 1-year lease on a rental home in Northern California.
We were moving from Northern Nevada to Northern California. Because we wanted several things. Less rural living, more California weather, a change of peace. We got all three.
I am in a better place to focus on writing, and most of the major things I considered distractions are now behind me.
Maybe distractions, or just part of moving through life.
One year ago, I had just completed two moving trips of our personal belongs into storage…
