Yesterday, my day got chopped up into little pieces and because I hadn’t scheduled a time to write, I ended up late at night with next to nothing written. Today, the same thing happened (although to be fair to myself, I did have to help take everything out of the basement, go to a four…
I’ve spent a good chunk of this weekend at a storytelling workshop, learning how to hone my stories and give them a bigger life than my current version gives them. It was tough, standing up in front of a group of other tellers, telling this story that wasn’t quite ready to be told* because I…
I was holding the practice pads for my line and a black belt kicked me in the ribs by accident. It hurt, but it was also really weird because I just wanted to take it as part of the process and carry on.* When you’re practicing a martial art (or any sport, I guess), there…
This was going to be a super-productive day. Heading to the book fair at school first thing* , swinging by my husband’s store to do a few hours of accounting before heading home to do some writing, and some planning for some AAMP** events we have coming up in the next few weeks. It didn’t…
Two weeks of writing, and two weeks of yoga. That’s pretty damn good, I think. I didn’t write every day, but the one day I took off (my birthday) was a conscious choice, not slacking off and I made sure to get right back at it the next day. I have done yoga every day…
There are a lot of hyphens in this post. Brace yourselves. I have a bit of a problem with clutter. I’m not a hoarder, and no one is calling the health inspector, but I have a lot of might-be-useful-I-plan-to-do-SOMETHING- with-that stuff. Given that on any different day I might be my writer-self, my Mombie-self, my…
I still don’t have a full outline. Deadly irresponsible of me, like writing without a license or something, but there it is. What I do have, however, is a list of about 15 different scenes that I think need to happen to move the story along. I made the list, one scene per index card,…
I’m still having trouble developing a full outline but it has been more of an issue of not having the time to sit down alone and map it all out than a reluctance to think about the big picture. I can sort of see how the story is going to shape up, but until I…
My oldest kid turned 10 today. 10. I have no idea how that happened. I swear that just a minute ago I put an infant in his stroller to take him for a walk, and the next thing, he’s offering me the perfect hook for the novel I’m writing. Yes, it really feels like an…
…you know, November 10, my 39th birthday, but I was too busy having birthday fun to spend time writing a blog post. Last week at the competition, two of my competitors were near my age*, one was 39, and the other was 40 or 41. I thought nothing of this at first, because I think…