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New Year, New Possibilities

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Happy New Year, Everyone!

I've been on (and still am on) vacay, so I was away from the blog, but I plan to get back into the swing of things - especially with me going back to Lubbock at the end of the week and with school starting next week.

If you follow me on any of the social watering holes like Twitter {I'm HERE}, Facebook {and HERE}, and MySpace {and HERE, too!}, you know that the semester ended pretty well for me. Despite my issues and wishes to flee Lubbock for Lake Charles, I finished the semester with great grades and even a few papers that sparked me into General Dissertation Thoughts. Always a good thing.

The biggest thing I learned over this semester was if I could succeed when I felt so overwhelmed, so unstructured, so unprepared, so un-everything, then with more organization and preparation (and heavy, heavy doses of God and prayers), I can shoot for beyond the stars.

I'm nervous and excited about the new semester. Why? Well, though I'm happy to be taken one less class than last semester, this feels like a "crunch time" semester for me. Need to get my committee together. I need [more want than need, but need is a close second] to get my dissertation idea firmer and be able to articulate some research questions. I need to start thinking about grants and fellowships and research and ideas for papers for conferences.

OK, moving on. LOL Will drive myself crazy thinking about it. Let's just say that spring 2010 semester will present new academic challenges for me.

Besides, there are more NEW challenges, possibilities before me for the twenty-ten [yeah, don't overall feel this twenty-ten thing, but I'm going to use it].

I finally connected with a bit of creativity while home. I scoured through story ideas and the two unfinished books I have and chose one of the unfinished books as my next project. I did a bit of organizing and planning of my writing agenda for 2010, and I'm excited for all the things that will be coming up - through my new writing, the release of my debut solo project, Death at the Double Inkwell in June {pre-order HERE!}, the development of my The Write Life for You series of books I plan to indie-publish and go live with the first book in December. The possibilities right now, literally, feel endless.

Although I'm anxious and a bit rattled and nervous, I'm also confident that once I get over myself and get on with it all, I will conquer every obstacle set before me and succeed...yet again.
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