In this month’s newsletter to my subscribers, I wrote about May being a time of transition. As the days march to the end of this particular month, other little transitions are happening. The big one I mentioned in my newsletter was the shift from a lot of clients to a few clients. This leaves me more time for writing. The transition back to more clients and less time for writing happens in August.
I completed my first round of edits on The Lost Gift and sent it to a beta reader. Usually when I do this first round of edits, much of the story is fresh. Not this time. I hope new eyes will point out plot errors and weird character actions. I took a day to step back from that manuscript and completed a few other tasks. Then I picked up the math workbook I put on pause in October, and I’ve been working to complete that project.
I’m transitioning with a few other things. It’s funny because I work really hard to keep things status quo. This gives me the illusion that I have control over situations. But the weather is heating up (my very least favorite time of the year is the next 4+ months), which means Holly gets a fan in her stall. It’s been five years since she’s had one. A bit of transition for her, too. With the hotter temps, my yoga partner has moved north. We’ll eventually get together virtually. The garden is less productive, and with scorching temps, the remaining plants are likely to give up.
As time slips forward, I try to navigate these transitions with as much ease and positivity as possible. It’s on to the next writing project (the math workbook for a few more days then back to fiction), the next schedule change (with clients, with time at the ranch, a yoga schedule), the next shift in when and how I do my “routines” (up earlier, more inside activities). How do you navigate transitions?
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