A MONKEY ALMOST OFF MY BACK

I started this blog thing to try and keep up and keep track of what I was doing in my life! Now it is just one more thing I never get to! I always thought I had it all together, but alas, I was only fooling myself! You know how they used to have those Franklin Covey Day Planners and you made lists to organize yourself and whatever you didn't finish, you moved to the next day...Well, I've been moving mine from year to year! I am writing this so that I can hopefully assign myself some accountability! I have determined that I am not a "finisher". I used to love to sew and I would make a beautiful dress or skirt or pair of pants or whatever, with zippers and buttonholes and facings, etc. Then when it came to the hem...I never finished it. I have Relief Society projects a decade old in my closet, just waiting to be finished. That is why I always take my name off the Super Saturday list.
So...I have been writing a book for the past several years....Actually it was pretty close to finished about 3 years ago. But I didn't quite know what to do next...I had an idea, but it was hard to take it to the next step. Last month, I took the plunge and contacted an editor. Last week I went to LA to meet with her. She read and assessed the book and gave me her feedback. She liked it! Yea!!!! All that putting it off for nothing! OK...nothing but a major fear of rejection stemming from my childhood! Anway...I have some more work to do on it, but it is no longer in the drawer destined to be an unfinished project for my kids to find when I die like the afghan in the closet. I will get this monkey off my back!