Hey Everyone,

Hope you are having a great day and enjoying this gorgeous weekend.

I recently started a new job. The reason for this new job was to do fewer hours to help give me more time to write. I didn’t realise that taking on a new role with even fewer hours would take so much energy out of me and have found I haven’t really been able to write much at all towards my second book since I started and it had really been getting to me. I hadn’t been able to understand what was going on, considering I wrote my last book when I was absolutely run off my feet, I had more time and yet I felt more tired than ever. Every time I would sit down to write I had no words…. This was becoming a common occurrence until it all came back to me.

One recent afternoon I was feeling very clear-minded after work and I sat down at my desk and opened my computer and started reading the last chapter I wrote when I felt it start to happen again, I started losing focus and getting distracted, I could not concentrate at all. So, I stopped…  then, I decided to start reading the chapter back that brings the whole story together and the one I am most proud of, when it all started flooding back to me. I had so many ideas, every scene I could see so clearly how I wanted it to flow.

I realised it wasn’t me being too tired from work, it was because I didn’t completely agree with the last chapter I had written and didn’t feel it really needed to be there. Obviously, my mind knew and had no idea where to go from there, so it just didn’t compute.

So, I skipped it and started writing the scene after, one hour later I had written approximately 1000 words and I knew exactly what had been happening to my writing, I had been forcing something that wasn’t meant to be, so what happens when you force something that wasn’t meant to be, it doesn’t work out as you intended.

I am a big believer that everything happens for a reason, why I am not sure, but I do have faith there is a crazy reason behind it. It’s like when you’re running late for work and you find yourself rushing to make it on time when a truck pulls out in front of you and you instantly get that feeling to talk out loud to yourself “come on the universe, really, why now!”.

I have felt writing my second book that I have a lot more pressure on me and greater expectations from people in comparison to my first book, as people go a lot easier on you when it’s your first. Thinking back, even in the chaos, I loved writing my first book and enjoyed the process as the story came to life in my head and this is a reminder to slow down, think about it and enjoy the process like I did, after all that feeling I get is the reason I write.

So next time something isn’t working, I will be taking a step back and will be assessing the reasons why it isn’t working and will be asking myself if I am forcing something, or am I letting life’s blessings carry out the natural flow.

I hope you all have a wonderful rest of your week, be true and kind to yourself and others and please remember… every day is a new chance to try, it’s a chance for a fresh start, try and find something new daily that you love about yourself, affirmations are the key to self-acceptance and don’t ever give up on yourself or your dream as this life is so precious.

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