Finding what's more...

I heard a great line yesterday- The only monster that you need to worry about in this life is the one that stares at you from the mirror each morning.  You tame him, make friends with him, and the rest of life is nothing you can't handle.*  And this is what I hope to do by backing off from the cyber world for a while.  I have canceled my facebook and my myspace accounts, and I am taking a hiatus from this blog.  I will leave it active for anyone who wants to read past posts, and for a future me who may want to come back to it.  For now, though, "it's time for [me] to start writing something other than notes."** 

I am ready now to work on getting published.  I have applied to write for an online magazine, and will shift my focus to submitting articles to smaller magazines, at first, and then hopefully on to larger ones.  And, possibly to dabbling in fiction.  I am a person who can easily get mired down into a rut, and I fear that this blog may be my comfort rut.  So, I am breaking out of it, not because I don't like it, but because I feel that maybe it has led me to the place I am now, the place I need to be- with my writing, my confidence, and my peace of mind.  I love writing because it is my way of assessing the world around me, of breaking things down into simplified and digestible pieces.  Now I want to try doing that from a different approach.  Like yesterday, when I had gotten myself so upset about something that I didn't know what to do, I went into my backyard and played in the dirt and it calmed me.  It's time to simplify things, try something new, get dirty, and find out what more is.

*Charles Martin, Chasing Fireflies
**Golly, Harriet the Spy

I will be publishing my own website soon, so I will be sure to post when that is up!  Thanks to all my continual readers!  Please keep in touch via my email: dewin@dewindesigns.com.