Transition Friction

WIP Wednesday

Writing Editing: Some progress was made. Not much. Still not up to my usual production level/output. I’ll get there.

I’m being patient with myself. There’s no getting around the fact that big life disruptions are… well, disrupting.

Mostly I’m over the anger and sadness of being laid off. Mostly. But to pretend I’m not slightly stressed and still running some level of those emotions in the background would be lying. It sneaks out as snark and sarcasm from time to time.

Non Author Life: I’ve been taking advantage of all the ‘transition’ benefits my almost ex employer is providing: financial counseling, legal counseling, emotional counseling, and career counseling. So, that keeps me a lot a bit busy. I have to get things in order to deal with the transition and figure out what’s next. It’s not a surprise then that authoring is getting tossed into the backseat a little, is it?

I do know for a fact, I will get back to it. I have kept writing and publishing through a lot of bumps in the road. The most notable was cancer three years ago. From that, I get something I tell myself constantly: I can do hard things. Because I was victorious then, and six months of chemo was not easy. None of that journey was easy.

So, I survived that. I’ll survive this.

Little bits of intuition, or maybe the universe, has always whispered to me. It led me to this job when I needed it - the great insurance and the flexibility. Precisely a year before I was diagnosed, I started this job. Any later, and I would not have qualified for a lot of the benefits and job protections. Uncanny, right?

During the last round of layoffs, my intuition said I would be fine, and I was. This round, I had an uneasy feeling, and I was right. Right now, under everything else, is the sense everything will be okay. I’m going to be fine, and something better and more exciting is waiting for me out there.

How was your week?