#wip
As many of you know, I am slow and steadily inching my way through self-publishing those long ago written children’s stories of mine with the fingers crossed end result being a delightful box-set titled, I Am My Feelings
YaY
& so far
and
all sit happily in Amazon-Land waiting for your cute little selves to notice.
But what I’ll bet a zillion bucks you did not know because I’ve never, ever told you is that each of these already out in the world books are flawed.
uh huh
it’s true
And when I first discovered these teeny, tiny, not perfectly perfect but it’s way too late to change them now, persnickety somethings ??
Yep. You guessed it. My brain came thisclose to implode.
Why ?
because because because, ya know, everyone will NOTICE and everyone will befuddle and everyone willwillwillwill
!!!!!!!
Then I took a step back and thought, hmm, I wonder, Universe, oooooh how I wonder.
So today, I’ve decided to make it my mission to unveil the dents and dings of me and my #wip oopsie-ness because when you think about it (which I do quite often) aren’t we alllll just a wonderful work in progress ??
One would think when I opened the pages of my very first accomplishment I’d have excitedly zeroed in on Toby Mikle’s My Book Illustrator bright and amazing colorfulness and the YaY MEEEEEEE !! aspect of it all
& I did !! I promise you, I sooooo did but as I thumbed my way through to the tail end, I stumbled onto
!! egads !! 4 !! count ’em FOUR completely empty spaces awaiting my eyeballs and boo, just booooooo !
but shhhh the quietly content voice inside my head whispered. the ones these words are meant for will not see a flaw, so ! ok ! I casually replied, cool !! and forgot all about that blankness of white.
Now, as I approached Book #2, TearDrop I was confident I had reached a level of savvy know-how but, errr, it’s me and my head sometimes wanders into random unknowns so I was not surprised at all after previewing and double checking and making darn sure I got it absolutely right …
yup. I totally missed that obviousness and great, just GREAT ! People are going to see me as some ditzy kind of knucklehead.
baaaaaa
& sure enough, the quietly content voice inside my head repeated, the ones these words are meant for will not see a flaw
& cool. Along, I went.
Enter my latest lovely, Nicey and SURELY I will get it right THIS TIME
um, long story short,
yes, you are correct, the pages don’t fit the page
& ARE YOU FLIPPIN KIDDING ME ????? HOW the heck did THAT happen ?!??!!?? ! waaaaaaaa ! I may as well give up cause really now, REALLY ?? whyyyyyy ?????
& one more time my mantra mantra-ed, the ones these words are meant for will not see a flaw.
& shhhhh, off went my worries and in came a sense of calm relief because as I mosey about this wiggly road I am on I am reminded time and time again
& hey, Universe ?? where you lead, I guarantee I will follow and with shy up next on my drawing board, I welcome any kind of quirky you’d care to throw my way.
& ! YaY !
I love being your #wip
🙂