Can you be a writer if you aren't writing every day?
Does writing emails count? How about writing WIKI pages?
What about posting to your blog, that you haven't posted to for nearly five months?
I must say, that while I'm not active on this blog as much as I might like (that makes it sound like I have no control whatsoever!), I am still thinking about my novel almost every day. During these past five months I have been writing, actually doing that thing that was formally reserved for hand and pen/pencil/crayon/chalk. I've got notes and notes in one of my many journals about what needs to be added, changed, expanded upon. So I am writing...just not always in this format.
Excuses? Not really, just explanations.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Does 25 inches of snow equal creative abandon?
The snowstorm/blizzard arrived yesterday. By dark there was already 15 inches on the ground. The University closed at noon on Monday and the drive home was nothing short of interesting - a moronic driver in a gigantic Ford tried to go flying by us on Route 66 and ended up going diagonally down the middle of two lanes just in front of us for about 500 yards - Wacko! This morning we awoke to 25 inches - it's really beautiful and I'm very glad i don't have to try and get anywhere. The sun is brilliant, but the wind is typical-insane-Northern Arizona-nothing-to-stop-it wind...so both I-17 south and I-40 west are closed.
Does this time of being snowed-in mean I will turn my attention to creative abandon? Can I take some snippets while the new puppy, Ruby, naps to write - Gehrke calls??? We shall see...in the meantime, it's gorgeous albeit blinding!
Monday, November 30, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
39,605 Words So Far
Hi All - well, I'm currently at 39,605 words - I've got until midnight, November 30 to reach 50,000. NaNoWriMo has put up the word count verification tool now, on November 25th, so people are already DONE and WINNING!!! Ugh - what's up with that??? Over achievers, I'd say!
I won't bore you with the usual rant about being behind at work, needing to make up being out last week so much with the stupid migraine - that really should be plural - stupid migraines! Oops, sorry, just did...
I am awake, it's 12:52am, Gia and Elum are talking in the Refuge of Guardians about their next step. They've been thrown together rather unceremoniously and now that Gia has shown up the action can really begin. There is no way this story is getting wrapped up in 50,000 words. Now I've got to get Gia and Elum out of there, back to Lady Lillian's so Elum and Gia can take another look at that stone column with the ancient writing, they've got to find out the Lady Lillian's daughter is the black rider and leader of the bad guys, deal with the shock and awe of THAT revelation, but put it aside and get to work, finding the last ______ (fill in the blank with the number of libraries to be found) and saving the Knowledge from destruction or worse!
OKAY? Are you with me? Good - cuz' I need all the support I can get to make it to 50K! So, thanks in advance!
I won't bore you with the usual rant about being behind at work, needing to make up being out last week so much with the stupid migraine - that really should be plural - stupid migraines! Oops, sorry, just did...
I am awake, it's 12:52am, Gia and Elum are talking in the Refuge of Guardians about their next step. They've been thrown together rather unceremoniously and now that Gia has shown up the action can really begin. There is no way this story is getting wrapped up in 50,000 words. Now I've got to get Gia and Elum out of there, back to Lady Lillian's so Elum and Gia can take another look at that stone column with the ancient writing, they've got to find out the Lady Lillian's daughter is the black rider and leader of the bad guys, deal with the shock and awe of THAT revelation, but put it aside and get to work, finding the last ______ (fill in the blank with the number of libraries to be found) and saving the Knowledge from destruction or worse!
OKAY? Are you with me? Good - cuz' I need all the support I can get to make it to 50K! So, thanks in advance!
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Down for the Count - Damn Migraine
Well, I didn't make my word count this weekend - cuz of the crappy crap crap migraine issue - whatever...nothing to be done now. But I will be back on track later this week, after the drugs wear-off a bit more. Thanks for all your kind words and support.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
9,873 Words Needed Today
It's a sunny Sunday morning and I'm sitting in the sun by the patio door - the wind is the typical crazy Arizona wind and it's pretty cold outside. The water for the birds froze last night. I filled the feeders this morning and was glad when I stepped out the glass door that I'd put on a coat and hat. Burrrrr... In the novel, it's spring on Pesgio - the colony where Elum is at the moment. When he left Cadreya it was just entering the months of ice...maybe I should add something about the different seasons as he moves from colony to colony...we'll see.
Here's to a fruitful day of writing - damn the headaches and the sore knees - I'm spending my day with Elum! NOT with a warm rice sock on my head in bed! Do you hear that head!!!???!!!
Maybe the headache meds I took this morning will make things even more interesting as I write today - I'm not sure I've ever written with these meds in my system before. This could be very interesting.
Here's to a fruitful day of writing - damn the headaches and the sore knees - I'm spending my day with Elum! NOT with a warm rice sock on my head in bed! Do you hear that head!!!???!!!
Maybe the headache meds I took this morning will make things even more interesting as I write today - I'm not sure I've ever written with these meds in my system before. This could be very interesting.
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