How are you today?
I say,
Doing OK.
But,
Not where I want to be yet.
Some day,
I hope to get,
I hope to get, up a few steps.
Climb the writerly ladder.
Some say,
It don’t matter.
Well, I love writing,
Love writing just for me.
But only for me,
Only for me, this cannot be.
I want to share my words far and wide.
I want to make my living,
My life.
People reading me,
Reading me and loving my words.
My blog,
My books.
My emails,
Facebook.
I want to spend my time as the summer grows too full,
Writing,
Writing, and, writing,
Writing more.
I’ve two more books I wish to write.
I could do them,
I could do them, if only,
If only I had nothing else to do but write.
Duties.
Responsibilities.
Promises made.
Commitments.
Things I said I’d do,
My word I gave.
It’s not what I thought it would be.
It’s just not turning out OK for me.
I want to take the summer,
I want to take the summer day,
Day, and night.
I want to type.
I want to research, read, underneath,
The Bright,
Under the Bright, Moonlight.
I want to write.
Write.
Underneath,
Underneath the bright full moonlight.
Will I, do it?
I do not know.
I fear if I don’t,
My words will go.
Curse of the Weary Writer.
April 12, 2023.
About Patty L. Fletcher
Patty L. Fletcher lives in Kingsport Tennessee where she works full time as a Writer with the goal of bridging the great chasm which separates the disAbled from the non-disAbled. She is Also a Social Media Marketing Assistant.
Follow her at: https://pattysworlds.com/ for stories, book updates and more.
Trish Hubschman
April 12, 2023This is very good. It’s also life.
Patty Fletcher
April 12, 2023Thanks.
And, true.
Robbie Cheadle
April 16, 2023Hi Patty, I also struggle to find time to fit everything in. I also have a day job and other responsibilities. I have found squeezing in a few hundred words a day helps me. I make a little progress and feel less frustrated.
Patty Fletcher
April 17, 2023Hi Robbie, thanks for your understanding.
I just feel a little overwhelmed at the moment. I used to be this person, who could juggle ten balls at once. I could run a phone room, work a crisis line work on a book and keep up with everything needing done at home all in the same mass of events.
Now, I feel like I’m on the spin cycle much of the time. I have sensory perception issues now I didn’t have before and this makes overstimulation a real problem.
I’m getting ready to back off a bit and narrow my focus so I can accomplish all I wish to do without feeling like I’m falling down a hole.
It’s a scary thing to do, to back away from things because of course, we’re told we must do it all.
I just cannot do that anymore.
Anyhow, today is yesterday’s tomorrow and tomorrow is another day.