E.A. Brady

I’m not going to lie, like it was for most people, 2020 was sort of the year that didn’t happen. I felt like we were stuck in a time loop of suck. I told myself I was going to be productive. I had all this down time and no excuses for why I couldn’t get stuff done. Except I couldn’t. Again, like a lot of people, anxiety and worry about the state of the world shot all my motivation to dust.

Bring on 2021.

Where I live, vaccination rates are high, and things are starting to return to a relatively normal way of life. And with that, thankfully, has returned my creative spark. I want to write. I want to create. I want to engage with people in the Bookstagram community. I want to share my work with my writers’ group and get feedback on the things I’ve been working on.

At the risk of sounding a little cheesy, I feel a little like George Bailey from It’s a Wonderful Life. “I want to live again!”

I have loosely planned out the second half of my year and, assuming I can keep myself on track, I hope to have a short novel available to my newsletter subscribers as well as have a novel ready to publish in early 2022, with several more in the pipeline. It’s an ambitious to-do list for sure, but I think it will be worth it to get my work out there and hopefully start building up a small following of readers.

Like I read in the book Soundtracks by Jon Acuff recently: “Choose new thoughts that generate new actions that take you new places.”

I’m ready to go! Now I just need to do the work.