What was I thinking?

That it would be an easy write?  I have been working in nonprofits a long time.  I have developed the core concepts and have the four organizations that I am featuring as the case stories.

I guess I thought that with that great framework that the “book would write itself.” Not literally, but you know what I mean!

That is NOT happening.

I had the ideas conceptualized in ways that felt really clearly defined in my head.  I am not sure what happens between my brain and my fingers on the keyboard, but what comes out the first time is not clearly anything..

I thought that I wanted to maybe “go somewhere” to do all the writing at once. A “writer’s retreat” kind of place to help me focus, you know!  O.M.G. am I glad that it did not work out that way!  I would have gone stir-crazy with only the book.  It has layers and levels and chapters and connected ideas that are unfolding before me       v      e      r      y         s     l      o    w        l             y.  I would have to live there for months!

But, all of that said,

I AM WRITING MY BOOK!

One thought, one page, one chapter at a time.

I am making great progress.

And, I am very impressed with the results so far! (Sometimes I hate the results, but those moments are fleeting!)

Sometimes so impressed, that I give in and do my happy dance!

So, now you know why I have not been writing my weekly blog.  Forgive my absence, please! There are only so many words inside me.

I will be back… not sure when….

but I will be back!