What’s your buzzword for 2026?
I’ve seen it on multiple social media posts and it’s been the topic of a number of blogs I subscribe to. Instead of a New Years Resolution, many are just picking a key word for the year.
Mine is TRUST. With so much uncertainty in my life since becoming a widow last summer, I’ve decided to stop trying to control everything.
We are not ever in control anyway.
So instead of setting lofty goals, penning lengthy to-do lists, and making promises to myself to “do this” or “do that” every single day, I’ve decided to just let go.
TRUST.
Trust that the Universe supports me. Trust that everything will work out okay. Trust that whatever comes my way, I will know–somehow–how to handle it.
Of course, there are endless unfinished projects on my hard drive.
And on dozens of USB drives tucked into my desk drawers.
In opening up a document that I got over 30K words into, a GREAT story idea, I stalled. Why?
Because I did not trust myself to do the story justice.
It’s time to TRUST and surge forward.
The book has a name. It has a genre. It fits in well with my other Haunted Romance novels.
So why not plow ahead? Even if I can’t get my “target” goal of 1500 words a day written. Even if my writing for that day is reading back over the last chapter to see where I left off.
But I felt like having some fun. So I loaded my story blurb into ChatGPT and asked it to create a cover for me.
WOW. If that’s not something to get excited about, I don’t know what is.
Details coming soon.
The Gemwriter 
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