Okay, so Nanowrimo has officially started and already I'm behind. It doesn't help that my job can be pretty stressful, and saps a bunch of my mental energy but sitting down to work on what I've been planning on for weeks... lets just say Plot Bunny and I didn't have chemistry. Attractive looking on the outside, but scratch the surface there wasn't much there. Instead, another Plot Bunny caught my attention and while it shares some traits with my first Bunny, this Bunny has some curves and scintillating prose. Unfortunately it means starting back at square one, but I didn't waste too much of my time on the flat, empty Bunny.
That being said... it's time to get back to work.
For now, please enjoy a snippet from the Prologue
The first steps are always the hardest. Standing on the precipice, a vast abyss looming ahead, a large part of my brain is screaming at me to stay still and not move while the other part says ‘Go for it… What to you got to loose?’ What do I have to loose? My life, my home, my family, me… When you sit down and really think about it, there is a whole hell of a lot to loose; enough to keep me rooted in place. Maybe as I stand here looking out across a seemingly barren wasteland of the unknown the question I should be asking myself is… ‘What will I have to gain?’
The answer to that question is infinitely more terrifying, but exciting at the same time. What will I gain? Going forward, where will I end up? The path that lies ahead could lead to anywhere, and it’s that thought that spurs me on to do the unthinkable. Closing my eyes, I take a deep breath, gird my loins, and move forward.
Yes, first steps are the hardest, but you never get to where you ultimately need to be if all you do is stand still. The first tentative steps I took towards a different path irrevocably altered my life.
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