Well, it has been quite some time since I’ve talked about my writing journey, and heaven forbid I let anyone forget I’m a published author! 😉 So, I thought I’d give a little update this week.

Unfortunately, if I’m being honest, my writing has taken a seat on the back burner for the time being. I am still working on book #3, and I’m about 90 pages in at the moment, so definitely a solid start, but it is going to be a very slow going process. I still love writing, and I so badly wish I had more time to work on it, but the fact of the matter is that I just have a lot of other things going on in my life at the moment that are more important.

First of all, I’m planning for a wedding. And now that we are only three months away from the big day, it seems like wedding planning is taking up quite a bit of my free time at the moment! And hey, I only plan on getting married once, so I’m going to make the most of this time.

The weekend is typically when I have the most time to do some writing, but lately my weekends have been filled with house projects, hanging out with my family or my friends, and now that planting season is basically here, I like to help at the farm where and when I can as well.

Our house has a lot of projects we’ve been putting off for a while, so it is nice to start chipping away at them – even if that means sacrificing writing time. And I’m not about to turn down spending time with my loved ones, especially little Connor and Tessa. They’re not going to be this little forever, and I want to hang out with them while I’m still the cool Auntie Megan. 😉

And truth be told, I probably would have time to do a bit of writing in the evenings during the week, but after a whole day of working, sometimes it’s nice to let my mind relax a little bit and read or watch TV instead. Because while I find writing to be really fun, it’s still hard work too.

And I know some of you are probably reading this thinking I’m just listing off a bunch of excuses not to be writing, which in a way, they are excuses. I could make a lot of sacrifices in my life to make more time for writing. Like I’ve said in a lot of my exercise posts, if it’s important to you, you’ll make time for it, and I feel like it applies here as well. And while writing is very important to me, I’ve accepted at this point that it is not the most important thing in my life right now.

My goal was always to publish a book. And I’ve not only done it once, but I’ve done it twice! I exceeded my goal, and while I would love to keep publishing more books, I’m okay with where I’m at right now. I’m okay making more time for other parts of my life for the time being. That doesn’t mean I’m not going to continue chipping away at my writing when I find little windows of free time, and that doesn’t mean I’ll never publish another book. But I’m okay with the fact that it could be a while before it happens again. So, if you’re out there patiently waiting for book #3 to come out, I am sorry, but you’ll be waiting for a while. I hope to make it worth the wait, though!

If you’re still wanting a copy of Sink or Swim or Below the Surface they are both available on Amazon and I’ve linked them here. I don’t have any copies of Below the Surface left, but I do still have some copies of Sink or Swim available at my house, if you want to hit me up. Especially with summer coming up, it makes for a good beach or poolside read!

Thanks as always for supporting this dream of mine. I’ll be back with more before we know it!

Until next time! 🙂

Megan Reiffenberger