© Loree Griffin Burns
I took this image a couple weeks ago at Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary in Princeton, Massachusetts. It strikes me now as the perfect illustration of my writing life these days: tagged butterflies on one side, honey bees on the other, succulent goodness in between.
Up until recently, I have always worked on one project at a time. This month, however, I have been working to finish the manuscript of THE HIVE DETECTIVES, which is due later in the fall, at the same time that I begin working in earnest on the CITIZEN SCIENTISTS book. There are moments of panic, of course. In those moments I look at the calendar and see its pages flipping fasterFasterFASTER and my deadlines comingComingCOMING.
But there are moments when the dichotomy is invigorating, too, when the two projects play off eachother in my brain and I feel as if each will be better because of what I am learning and putting into the other. Today I am celebrating these moments.
So here’s to monarchs winging toward Mexico, honey bees storing up for winter, and writers working on a deadline. Go! Go! Go!