As most of you know, at the end of June 2010, MamaWriters logged their last blog, at least for now.
The blog had fabulous potential to support and touch many women, readers and writers alike, but its inherent specialness was also part of its fatality switch: all of us have jobs, kids, and a writing career we’re building. None of us had the time to give the blog so it could fulfill its potential.
So, at least for now, we’re taking a respite. Doing what we women/wives/moms/writers/readers tell each other to do all the time:
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Take care of yourself.
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Maybe you can do it all. But maybe not all at the same time. And who knows, maybe you don’t even want to.
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Slow down. The rush is in your mind.
Be flexible.
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Be willing to change. The way it was isn’t the way it has to always be.
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Be willing to try. If it’s not the right thing at the right time, you’ll know.
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Get offline. Go write. Go for a walk. Go play.
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Write more. Your Muse might be lonely.
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Hug your kids and grandkids and husbands and partners–and dogs–more.
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Focus on the things you chose, rather than the things thrust upon you.
Aim for Exceptional. Don’t settle for mediocrity.
Be willing to do a couple things fabulously well, rather than a hundred things passably well.
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Rest more. Stop being willing to be exhausted by anything but your family and your calling.
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Your hair looks fine. Find the fire in your belly.
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Curiosity and the Rose: Courtesy Photos8.com
Have more fun.
Smell more roses.
Read more.
Write more.
Love more.
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So, that’s what we’ll be doing.
In the meantime . . . the community features, accessible via the sidebar, and the MamaWriters Yahoo group, are all still active, if you want to check them out. Click through the blogs, and use the tags, and find great ideas and maybe some rejuvenation, knowing their moms and writers are out there, doing what you’re doing or what you’ve done before.
Click through to any of the blog entries for more information on that particular MamaWriter, and information on how to contact her via her website. I speak for all of us when I say, we’d love to have you drop us an email, or say ‘hi’ on Twitter or Facebook!
And keep your ears open: one day we might be back, in some different form, because who knows what the future holds?
But mostly, a big thank-you to all of you, the mama-writer-readers who put love at the center of your lives.
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