DESIGN IS IN THE DETAILS — OR RATIONALIZING 101 – JAN. 27

What? Take care of the details???

Here I am, on a Friday, with a rainy day outside, the perfect time to work on my manuscript.  I’m doing everything possible to focus on my goals.  But the details keep grabbing at me or hitting me upside my head.

First there are surveys to complete, e-mails to respond to, a book review to write….it goes on and on.

After all that, I managed to complete my review of Diana:  In Pursuit of Love, by Andrew Morton (click the title).

Then I went over to my Creative Journey site and wrote about the coziness that surrounds me.

Am I trying to bury myself in minutia?  Even after all my vows to keep my eye on the goals?

Sometimes, in spite of ourselves, we do accomplish a few things, even as we deal with the details.  I’m now reading my fourth and final book on my list for the week:  Mudbound, by Hillary Jordan.  I’m loving it so far, although I haven’t made a lot of progress.  Some of my details today involved running some errands, despite the rain.

As I was out and about, I picked up the mail and found a new book in my box.  Yay!  You know what they say, the “design is in the details.”  Now I’m interpreting that to mean there is a plan.  But there’s another saying about details, too:  “the Devil is in the details.”

I’ve decided to ignore that one and focus on the first.  Despite all the little minutia that has occupied me today so far, I have a good feeling about how things are coming together.  And what about the manuscript, you say?

Well, I’ll think about that tomorrow.