Change

I'm treating this blog as any rough draft. I keep toying around with it, changing the look, the words, the title. "This Side of Narnia" feels like it captures what I want to blog about: family, faith, and fiction, hopefully without beating anyone over the head with my ideas, which isn't really my style. The other title just felt too blunt. So maybe I'll change the address, too, to match. I don't know. Is that even possible?

Basically with a baby who doesn't sleep through the night, I'm lucky I can put together a nearly coherent sentence. Maybe it wasn't the best time to start a blog, but as I said in an earlier post, writing and blogging keep me sane. So I started, and I will probably keep revising it. Besides, it's fun to change things up.

I wish I could find the same enthusiasm for the novel I've been working on for the last few years. I finally figured out how to fix most of the problems, I got started on a new draft that really feels like it could work, and I can't seem to work up the umph to get back at the draft. I don't know if it's nursing hormones, lack of sleep, or just burnout after years on the same project. I can't seem to focus.

On the positive side of things, I've had fun writing an article that I submitted to the Liahona and the Ensign, which are church magazines. And I started work on a new novel that I'm really excited about, which is fun, working on something fresh for a change. Maybe that's what I need before I go back to finish my other novel. A little change.