What I did on my summer vacation

Taking the summer off from blogging was not the plan but it does seem to have happened anyway. I didn’t go anywhere. I spent my summer here in Maine enjoying our short but glorious season. This year we had not even one day above 90F — that kind of heat is not the stuff of a Maine summer any year but usually we have a few hot days but this year, we had a lot of rain and nice days in the 70’s and 80’s. Heavenly. This is what greeted me this morning — and even now, at 3 pm, we are pretty much socked in and it is a bit chilly and very very muggy. Not a great day for sailing. And it feels to me a signal that summer really is over. This summer I learned that an essay I wrote, “The Fat Lady Sings” was accepted by the Jungian journal Spring and can be read in the fall 2014 issue on Women’s Voices.  And the book I have been working on for 4 years? This summer I completed the first draft and this past week the second draft. By the first of the year I plan to have submitted it to a couple of places for publication. And if they reject it, I’ll try a couple more. And if push comes to shove and no conventional publisher accepts it, I think I would self-publish via Amazon. It feels huge just to have completed it. And still feel pretty good about it. I have several trusted people reading it now and will use their feedback for draft 3.
Source: Jung At Heart - Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs