Writing Miscellany

With the conference less than six weeks away, I'm getting pretty nervous. I need to have a portfolio of work to take with me, and I just haven't been very productive in the writing department.  In December I was churning out lots of material. Then around the New Year, I just couldn't focus. I felt like I lost  my edge or my steam. I couldn't figure out what was wrong.

Turns out I was pregnant. We concieved around New Year's Eve, and I officially have pregnancy-brain. I am so grateful for the pregnancy, but I wish I could focus. There is so much to get done before the conference, and my fears are starting to kick in.

• Will I be able to get it all done?
• What about housework, meals, kids, hubby, and oh, yeah...homeschool?
• What's the point...if no one likes my writing?
• Will I lose any more weight before I leave?
• Will I be too embarassed to get on the plane?
• How am I going to face hundreds of strangers in a strange place?
• Will they just see a big, fat, dummy or the woman that God has created and is always perfecting?

So there you have it, my stupid fears (and some reasonable ones). My goal is to have five articles to take with me. I have two that I can use, one is a published article, the other is the scholarship essay that I wrote. At the very least, I need three more pieces. I'm considering the following...

1. The Reemergence of Big Families
2. Career Mom (this is specifically for one of the publications represented at the conference)
3. Alone in America (a story of a missionary wife who has been without her husband for two years)

The Lord is good, and I know that He will equip me if it is His will.

10:03 AM - Jan. 29, 2008 - post comment