This week on Routines For Writers I posted an update of my 9 x 99 in 2009 project. I’m behind, but I’m getting things done. I don’t want to give the same update here, as this is a different blog, with a different focus, but it got me thinking.

          One of my greatest strengths is my flexibility, the way I can adjust expectations and plans on the fly. Recently, though, I’ve seen my flexibility more as a flaw than a strength. I wanted to stay focused and complete some of the many projects I’ve started or envisioned. That was, in fact, the main reason I conceived 9×99 in 2009.

          I think I confined myself too much, though.

          Even as I made that list of 99 tasks, I thought of several others, just as important. I told myself I could focus on those after the 99 days, but I think that was a mistake. I need flexibility. I need to be able to set aside one project that has lost its luster and go to another one, knowing that my interest in the first project will return. That is, in fact, part of my natural creative rhythm. Yes, it needs direction and discipline imposed at times, but it also needs to not be ignored.

          One of those other projects I wanted to work on is this blog. I want to post more often, maybe as often as daily. I need time and ideas, though. Ideas I could find, time not so much. Not unless I ignore my 9×99 in 2009 project.

          I want to write more reviews, but that means reading more books (or at least a fast rereading of them). That again means I need more time. Time I obligated elsewhere when I created that 9×99 list.

          Or maybe I’m deluding myself. Maybe this blog is unnecessary. Maybe I’m just talking to the air and no one is listening. Maybe. That’s possible. But in order to decide, I need to spend some time praying, thinking and clarifying my vision for having this blog. Time I have to “steal” from the 9×99 projects.

          Time I AM going to steal from the 9×99 in 2009 project.

          The next two weeks will be spent clarifying my desire, purpose and vision for this blog. I will compose and post at least a review and a musing each of those weeks. After that time, I will post at least one more musing detailing my thoughts and decisions about this blog. (If there is anyone out there listening, now is the time to let me know. )

          And then I will complete my 9×99 in 2009. Or at least give it a good try.