Time For Spring Cleaning!!

Spring is in the air! Can you smell it? Can you see it? This is the time of year when new life is spawned. Trees, flowers, and grass stretch out their winter sore joints and reach for the sun. Around the same time each year we also partake in an aged old tradition - Spring Cleaning. I know that many of you are hanging your head at the thought of cleaning, dusting, and repairing but cheer up. These activities bring about a fresh new feeling in our homes. The thought of throwing open the windows so the fresh air can roam through the house puts a smile on my face every time.

Like everything around us that enjoys the dawning of spring so to does our writing...or it can. You never know you could be dusting or cleaning an office space and stumble on some notes of a story long since forgotten. Maybe you will dust off that manuscript tucked away in the corner of a bookshelf and decide to finally finish it. The invigorating energy we get from spring, the sunshine, the fresh air can be directed at anything; including that old project that was seating there unfinished.

Many see cleaning as a burdensome chore that must be done (on occasion) but I see it as an opportunity to start fresh. Does anything beat that feeling of starting a new writing project on a spotless desk free from dust and a computer screen so clean the words jump out at you? I can't think of anything at the moment. I welcome spring each year with open arms. My cleaning supplies ready because, honestly, it doesn't take to long for me to clean. I tend to not make a big mess around here.

Spring is about new life, new ideas and new opportunities. Be careful and look around you; what you find could be the next idea for your new writing project.