As is often the way in life, January turned out to be a little bit different to what I had planned over the last few weeks of December when I made my resolutions and plans for the year. We got back from our 10 day Christmas holiday in Scotland and Russell was straight back in work and enjoying the new challenges of his job. I on the other hand, decided to take a slightly slower approach to the New Year and spent the first week organising, planning and putting things in place for the next few months.
I have six months left of my course at Oxford and have been lucky enough to be able to be able to use those next months to focus entirely on University and my own writing projects. I began the year by carrying on with a novel I had started a while ago, I got to 25,000 words before I realised why I took a break the first time around. It just wasn't working. It was tough having to put so much work aside but I knew this wasn't the right book and so I started to brainstorm and plan other ideas. I'm really pleased I took the time out to think about it and pray about what I should write, it allowed me to really plan and I now feel I have a much stronger story and have been enjoying working on that for the previous two weeks.
Its been a mix of good and bad this month but I feel like January has really helped set me up for the year. I've made plans, tried out ideas and worked out what works and what doesn't. Life is always a constant learning curve but I do feel prepared to face some of the challenges of the next few months and I am excited for what we've got planned. I hope you've all had a wonderful first month of the year. Let me know in the comments what you've been up to.
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