Hiya!
So there won’t be much focus on this post today, I’m a bit distracted writing this, but here goes…
There are a few quotes about writing that I both like and struggle with…
“You own everything that ever happened to you.”
“If people wanted to be written warmly about they should have behaved better.”
“Never wrong a writer, they get their revenge in print.”
All superb quotes. All very hard to live by. Writing is challenging, it can make you vulnerable.
Life makes you vulnerable.
This month has been riddled with procrastination at its best. I’ve been procrastinating even though the editing has been strenuous. I am learning guitar (a month and a half in)! Which is hard but fun and my left hand fingers look gross at the finger tips.
And the worst part. I lost a friend. Not like she died. But that she chose to keep her life in a toxic place and I couldn’t think of any way to try to help her (I’ve tried so many times, so many ways) so I tried to shock her into taking action (about her happiness) and it didn’t work how it hoped it would have. I gave her an ultimatum. But she then made things worse by choosing to see how it goes with the toxic side of her life rather than try to fix the rift. So of course when I walked away from the situation she decided to make herself look like a victim in the situation at my hands rather than keep it amicable and clean as a friendship break up. She went from talking about me on social media to actively messaging and calling people to say how I am rubbish.
It is sad that it had to go that way. This is the only place I have and will make a comment on it, the breakdown sucks. But there is little I can do when someone has made their choice twice.
I just want her to know I hope that she gets what she needs, truly gets what is needed. I hope she has a happy life.
That aside. I know mentioned I am editing, yup, I sure am. I am hoping to find an agent or publisher to be able to get this story onto some tangible paper!
I am getting ready to prepare something exciting on here too so don’t worry something new and exciting is coming… keep popping in and I might tell a little more next time.
I have spent hours trying to avoid procrastination by writing. I am sure I am not the only one who finds procrastination something that writers would get an olympic gold for. I’ll collect my medal later.
So its been just over a month and a half since I started to learn guitar… So I am sure that there is a little curiosity. I know and can execute the 9 major chords (A, C, D, G, E, E minor, A minor, D minor) as well as a couple of others. What songs have I been learning in my beginner-ness? Get Back- Demi Lovato, Nightingale- Demi Lovato, Slow Down- Selena Gomez, Halo- Beyonce, and the tabs for Shouldn’t Come Back- Demi Lovato.
So while it has been a weird suckish month in some aspects, in others, my god its been wonderful!
I went to a concert with my bro Harry recently- It was awesome! We went to Hyde Park, we saw Pharrell Williams perform and Stevie wonder. The food was good. The freebies = awesome. The atmosphere was the best thing about it, there was such a great vibe going on! I have learned something by saying yes to going, just follow a good vibe and impulse. It has been awesome to hang out with such positive people.
It is always important to hang around positive energies for certain.
So I want to keep doing more impulse yes moments!
May luck and adventure be on your side!
ARA xxx
A R Appleby 
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