Hold On Summer, I Make the Rules Around Here!

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Approaching Osoyoos, BC
Approaching Osoyoos, BC

Hold on summer, you’re not going anywhere if I have a say in it.

The pictures spread throughout this post are from my camping trip in the Southern Okanagan BC. I took my daughters on an Adventure Girls camping trip and we had fun and adventures!  

Labour day today. I will hit the beach and cherish the Okanagan summer for one more day.

I effectively took most of the summer off from my writing projects. I didn’t plan it that way but once summer gets going it’s easy to get caught up on all the activities with my kids. I think it’s for the best as once tomorrow hits, it is back to the grind with long days of structured work time.

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Overlooking Osoyoos, BC

I am excited for this year of writing. I learned so very much last year–on the front lines of all types of online and print writing: freelance, adcopy, fiction, blogging. I had a taste of all of it and know what makes an income, what my passions are and what forms of writing are in the midst of a slow death and are not worth pursuing. They will be reborn, rising like phoenixes in the next few decades but for now, they are tumbling to extinction.

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Young steer roams free amongst alpine pastures near Conkle Lake, BC
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Cow in Alpine forest near Conkle Lake, BC

I am grateful for this one year I devoted exclusively to writing pursuits of many forms. I learned so very much in one year, simply because I put myself on the front lines and did nothing but write, publish and attempt to publish.
This year is another dedicated solely to my writing (and yes, more painting as it is time for picture books again after a long rest).

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Alpine pastures in Southern Okanagan, BC

I am enthusiastic, passionate and determined and in the words of my new mentor, Neil Gaiman:

The old rules are crumbling and no one knows what the new rules are. So make up your own rules.–NG

Here’s to making up my own rules (I’ve always been good at this)!

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My lovelies and I around early morning campfire (after a night listening to wild wolves howl to the moon). Conkle Lake, BC. August 2013.

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