This week has been stressful. Good stressful. Good. Stressful. But also free of too much thinking and too much work. So only a couple of hundred words for you.

This week I’ve been at my in-laws, away from work, away from difficult questions and difficult decisions. I’ve been thinking hard about what I want to do next year. I’ve got so much to get done. The MSc will hopefully be completed this year. I have two voluntary jobs to do, and I really want to do them well because they’re both important. It also looks like I’ll have a chance to move sideways for a little while, and again, I want to do well there.

I’ve ben enjoying my writing group, but I notice that most weeks I bring something new. This year I’d like to bring back the same thing, week-on-week, and let people see how their feedback changed it. I’ve really enjoyed seeing how my feedback has changed Kate’s work, and I think other people deserve to feel that too.

Overall then I want the focus of this year to be about focus and persistence. I’d like to stick with things and see them through a little more, and developing a better capacity to work through the boredom of editing and getting characters from A to B is the only thing that will enable me to do that.

I must find peace in being bored.