Ink & Pixels
Telling stories worth sharing
In glassmaking or blacksmithing, you purposely heat and cool your material in order to increase its strength. Sometimes, you mix it with another material. This process well describes my emotions these past 5 months: the roller coaster of emotions when I receive an agent's request for the full manuscript...only to receive their one-sentence rejection 24 hours later.
Waiting is hard. You can distract yourself with make-work projects, spring cleaning, crafts, hobbies, exercise... but eventually, you exhaust your attention span and you're back to waiting.
The last month has felt like an eternity of waiting—waiting on contracts, orders, responses.
Fortunately, the reality of waiting, is that something eventually happens.
Every soap-making article I read advised that I start simple for my first batch of soap. So naturally, I went ahead and picked the hardest recipe—one with goat's milk (which can scald easily), beeswax (which makes it harder to pour into molds), and honey, (which can provoke a volatile reaction).
Apparently, I'm a "go big or go home" soaper.
