By Kristy McCaffrey
I recently came across the concept of Sankalpa from the yoga
tradition. A sankalpa practice begins with the premise that you are already enough
to fulfill your life’s dharma. The trick, then, is to focus your mind, connect
to your most heartfelt desires, and channel the divine energy within. Sounds
easy enough. Hah.
My writing goals last year were lofty and I didn’t reach
them. My latest release (The Bluebird) was a cool ten months late. So, as I
look at what I want to accomplish in 2017, I’m feeling both ambitious and
cautiously guarded, knowing how easy it is for such plans to go out the window.
**A new website.
**Distribute my Wings series at multiple vendors (they are
currently exclusive on Amazon and the Kindle Unlimited program, but that will
end this week; my goal has always been for wider distribution).
**Create an audio option of Alice: Bride of Rhode Island (if all goes well with this book, I’ll
move on to the Wings series).
**Create a newsletter-exclusive novella tied to my Wings
series (this is almost complete and is titled Song Of The Wren—it features Matt, Molly, Nathan, and Emma two
years after The Wren and The Sparrow, with a cameo from Cale—be sure
to sign up for my newsletter to get all the deets as soon as they’re available—this
story will be FREE to newsletter subscribers).
**Release the first book in a new contemporary series. The
first novel is titled Deep Blue and
features a marine biologist studying great white sharks. It’s a sexy,
adventurous story that I hope to release in the spring. It will be followed by
two more books, tentatively titled Cold
Horizon (about high-altitude mountain climbers on K2) and Ancient Winds (a female archaeologist in
Bolivia). These three titles will be tied together with siblings, but I hope to
write more books that will be loosely linked to these characters as well. I’ve
been sitting on these story ideas for quite a while; with my Wings series now
complete, I decided it was finally time to focus on these books. Creative concepts tend to gnaw on a writer and make them irritable if not eventually released.
I have a few more goals, but I’m not going to overload
myself. I owe it to my husband to not be so burdened by work that I’m a grump
all the time. So, I will focus on the new books, which are truly a desire of my
heart, thus allowing the writing muse an easier path (and maybe an easier flow
during the first drafts).
If we accept that we already have the tools we need to
succeed, then the inner path of resistance can be quieted and we can simply
get to work.
Here's to a productive 2017!
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