Archive for March, 2010

Last night was Earth Hour and dedicated my hour to working on Never. I jumped forward again to continue a part that I had left behind months ago. It was productive, and it felt good, but it didn’t flow as much as I was hoping. Thank God for editing.

Here’s an excerpt.

I was wounded. I was about to respond, but I caught the driver looking at us in the rear view mirror, an eyebrow inappropriately lifted. Instead of saying what I wanted to, I let it rest, temporarily. I’d have to ask her if she thought this was a mistake when we got a moment alone. I ached to be closer to Renata, but retreated to my side of the car. It was already beginning, the show we’d put on for others. We were already broken and we were only ten minutes in.

Focus.

Focus is my new thing. In a world that rewards the multi-taskers, at least with praise but not always with riches, I was one of the many. That’s what used to be my thing.

I thought I could write a book…

And write a second book at the same time…

And be a freelance web developer…

And be a photographer…

And be a blogger…

And be everything. And do everything.

But now, I am single minded. I approach each task with as much attention as I can possibly give it. For the past two weeks I’ve been thinking to myself that I have to pick a primary direction for my other eight hours (the ones when I’m not at work). I’ve had a lot to weigh with all of my pursuits and relatively good talents. To make a long story short, I’ve picked writing. My stories, particularly the Renata and Ryan story, lingers in my mind every single day, and I’m always living inside it. It feels only natural that this pursuit, which is my favorite, be the one thing that I take on. The one thing that gets my focus.