Well folks, I made it to today! What a victory. To the world it is inconsequential but to me it’s life changing. This week I started my long-form writing class on Tuesday and on Wednesday I wrote a paragraph about Book People.
The amount of writing was miniscule, but the shift for me was massive because with this I fired the opening shot. From here on out, it is about taking a step everyday to work towards my eventual destination of writing this book.
I am finding a little less resistance everyday to my writing. It’s coming a little easier everyday. Again the shift is almost undetectable but I know it’s there and I just have to hold onto it and keep growing it one day at a time. Nano progress is still progress. This week I also started the Five minute Journal (a gratitude journal) and I genuinely think it’s helping to center me.
My other projects are slowly progressing. Tax Law Picture Book is coming along and Harlem Row as well. I have made no progress with my websites or looking for a publisher but I am keeping the faith that it’s all going to happen in time. My consulting work is a bit all over the map these days because I haven’t been getting any work from my contract but I am telling myself not to worry because I’m still getting paid. I can hopefully make up the hours in July.
Lately my mind has been filled with wild dreams which I will continue to manifest. I dream about seeing someone on a NYC subway reading my book. I dream about walking into a bookstore and seeing it on the table. I dream about some hot shot director falling in love with it and wanting to turn Book People into a movie or a show. I dream about meeting my agent, my publisher, and my publicist.
I used to be too scared to even have these dreams but now I am slowly letting the light in. I want all of these things so badly and I want to put in the work and the time to get it. I am slowly throwing my entire body and being into it and everyday I reach a little higher for my destiny.
Speaking of throwing my body into it, I have also been on a get-off-my-ass trajectory. I realized I needed to work on maintaining my healthy body and luckily the Krav Maga people got in touch on Tuesday to say that in-person classes have resume. I decided to just sign up immediately and went to my first class on Wednesday. I am thrilled to report that I didn’t get entirely whoop ass’d which is great. I would even say I enjoyed it (yes - shocking). For a self proclaimed potato, I love to break out of my own mold because the idea of doing something “not Wela” just tickles me. I want to keep surprising myself. I have four more classes to go before my summer travels and am excited to get myself more into shape while learning to protect myself.
The work continues. I hope to make some website and publishing breakthroughs in July. More importantly I am committed to my writing practice everyday. Not only that, but putting my writing out into the world. For this week we had two assignments to complete for the class including writing a short memo about our writing project and re-writing the lede to an article. I have completed both (because I have always been a keener precrastinator student) and hesitated on publishing them as I didn’t want to go first. But then I thought fuck it. One can’t help who they are - and I am a keener so I might as well just do it. Who cares if the writing isn’t good enough. It’s probably never going to be good enough. The point is to get out there. So here’s me leaning into who I am and learning to be proud of it at the same time! I was the first person to put up my writing in class and I am excited for so much more to come.