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    Go with the flow…

    posted by Marie-Claude
    Saturday May 22, 2010

    Today was one of those days where nothing went according to plan. Strange, I find I’m not so good at changes for the little thing.

    Hit me with a major crisis and I can usually get through with relative calm but small things can disturb me and it can take a few hours to regroup.

    One good surprise though was that my book is actually out in the stores. So my plan of preparing for Tuesday is all messed up but frankly who cares! It’s pretty cool no matter how or when it happen.

    My friend writer Eve Sanders send me a picture of my book at Barnes & Noble at Cocoa Beach in Florida. Pretty awesome to see that!
    It’s posted on my wall on Facebook.

    One thing that made me smile was that a few months ago I saw at my local QFC, books by Stella Cameron and Alexis Morgan, both authors in my RWA chapter. The books were side by side and I told them how inspiring they were to me. That I’d hope one day, I’d find my book at QFC. Now I’m too new to get such a placement but my book, right there at B&N was right above Stella Cameron’s books and also next to another idol of mine Allison Brennan.

    So that was pretty neat! Made up for the small disapointment of the day! I’m learning to go with the flow!

    Blessed be.

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    Goals, plans, how about a process…

    posted by Marie-Claude
    Thursday December 31, 2009

    I find it strange to think about goals. I’m on many writers email loops and it’s really exciting to see all the writers setting their goals and their plans for the New Year.

    I do have my own goals but they are pretty simple really. Write every day, first finish Ancient Secrets’ draft, then write the first draft of the Steampunk story, prepare proposals, submit and cross my fingers. Hopefully, start on Ancient Shadows, the third book in the series. These are great plans of course but I find that none of my goals/plans ever go the way I think.

    I did not expect to win the American Title in 2009 and publish so quickly, for example.

    I guess those surprises are called life and we can plan as much as we want but really we don’t know what life has in store for us.

    It’s all a process really.

    In the last ten years or so I’ve looked at each year as steps in my growth. Here I became independant, here I survived grief, and here I lived through illnesses and learned.

    I like to look back and pause. 2009 was the year of … (no need to expose all of me here) and 2010 may be the year of another step in life, maybe a little wisdom.

    I do not fear aging except for the increased chances of illnesses. I do welcome the learning, the toughening that comes with each year, each new experience and challenge.

    I don’t think I can suddenly change my nature and become perfectly organized overnight as the calendar turn. I’ll always be driven, trying hard, failing a little, messing things up a bit, having a little success and find profound joy in most of what I do and who I’m with because that’s just how I am.

    No, not perfect in the new year, no great new plans except for continuing the process, making small changes to do thing better.

    Just living, hoping you’ll do the same.

    Blessed Be


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