Never before has Free Refills felt so poised on the precipice of change. By the end of this week, I will have completed all my drafting for 2017 (at least 250,000 words total) and will have written and scheduled for publication all the pieces through at least the end of December, if not the first week of January. I’ll get to go into my year-end sabbatical with a deliciously clean slate to ready myself for the changes ahead.
By the second week of January, what I’m publishing will be substantially different from what I’ve done until now. It has never seemed more critical for Jerry and me to finish our first book. The goal is to have it done by the end of April. Meeting that goal will demand the bulk of my writing energy; it will not serve me well to too much divide my attention. I expect that most of my Refills during these months will be pieces lifted from the zero and first drafts for the book, in part to keep focus on the drafting and in part to explore what it feels like to work from the space of “piece as part of a bigger whole.”
When I feel into my body about this shift, I feel a spaciousness and also a sense of relief. This is the shift I’ve been needing to make, a shift that’s long over-due.