Tracey Wickham's Blog - Posts Tagged "friends"

The last month has been an absolute blur.
It is a month since A Murder Is Foreseen was published. Every day since then I've been busy promoting the book.
I have also published my book of short stories When Witches Gather and I am promoting that as well.
Added to that I am trying to do some work on my new novel every day.
Now don't get me wrong I love writing and I love everything that comes with it. I get up each morning and I wonder what the day is going to bring and that's great.
But today I came down with a bang.
I like to think I'm a good friend to those I am closest to. I always try to be there for them no matter what.
Despite being busy with the books I've been checking in with everyone to see how they are and everybody was fine.
Now I have discovered that two of my friends have personal problems that I wasn't aware of.
As you can imagine I feel terrible in myself. From what I had gathered they were all right, and now it turns out they were anything but.
I've learnt an important lesson from all this.
I really need to start creating a balance between my writing and my personal life.
Yes being a writer is important, but friends are just as important and if you care for them you should be there for them no matter how busy you are.