You may have noticed I’ve been a bit quiet? I’ve not been on FaceBook, I’m behind in replying to comments, e mails and reading blogs. I guess it was appropriate then, that at the end of a week where I’ve not been feeling too good, I should have a Mini Writing Retreat 🙂
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Writing Posture
Firstly, I’d like to apologise for being so behind with replying to your lovely comments this week, I’ve not been feeling very well…my arthritis, food poisoning, you know, just the usual lol
Just recently I read One Continuous Mistake by Gail Sher who is a poet, writer, teacher and psychotherapist. She has written over twenty books of poetry, haiku, writing as a practice and a book on bread-making. She is one of just 91 people ordained as a lay disciple of Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, the person credited with bringing Soto Zen Buddhism to the West. I thoroughly enjoyed it!!!!!
A Nightmare on My Street
The 5th prompt in the 30 Day Writing Challenge is…
Write about a dream or nightmare that you’ve had and turn it into a short story.
Wannabe A Writer? Part Two
I dont normally post on a Tuesday, but i just had to share 🙂
Remember Part One?
Well, in this episode Jane takes Delphine to meet Katie Fforde and what great advice Katie gives 🙂
Can You Really Teach An Old Dog New Tricks?
Well, perhaps I am describing myself as an old dog, but I haven’t got the energy to look up a nicer proverb *sniggers*
I spent much of last week working through the Scrivener course, the one I told you about, remember? Still Struggling With Scrivener
Well, what can I say… I’m loving it!
I finished Lesson 5 yesterday and what I’ve learnt so far is:
Coffitivity?
Oh, this is excellent!
Thanks to Hunter Emkay (see, I told you you should follow her blog) for the link to this….
Do you think you write better or are more productive when you sit in a coffee shop? Well now, you can bring the coffee shop environment to your home…..
Just click the link below, press play and off you go!
Do you find yourself being more productive in a coffee shop? Sometimes I am but other times I just get distracted lol
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Creating A Character
Prompt number 4 on the 30 Day Writing Challenge is…
Create a character off the top of your head and write a short history of him/her. Oh yes! You know how I love to create characters 🙂
Monday Monday…
…so good to me…
Is it?
I’ve been away for the weekend, had a lovely time, relaxed, slept, ate, drunk wine and cocktails and read. But all too soon it’s back to real life. I guess that’s what makes weekends away so special 🙂
The Dream Vacation
Number 3 of the 30 Day Writing Challenge prompts is:
If you could go on vacation anywhere in the world where would you go? Use vivid detail and prose to describe the experience you would like to have.
This photo was taken in Spain.
Insecure Writers Support Day – September
Today is Insecure Writers Support Group Day where we all get to have a winge and moan about writing 😉
Thanks, as always, to the wonderful Alex J Cavanaugh for hosting. You can find all the info and see links to other participants on Alex’s blog.
This will be the 17th month I’ve participated. I will, one day, go back and read all my posts, but it will probably be very depressing lol…*thinks* ok, perhaps not!
So how am I feeling this month?
Well, fairly optimistic actually lol (makes a change). I know where I’m going with the rewriting and editing of both novels, I’m looking forward to starting Nano (and my new project) and I seem to be back into reading fiction, and enjoying it (rather than analysing it). So all is good with the world yeah?
Ummmm, no, not exactly lol
Now I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed lol. I’ve never been the type of writer who can juggle more than one project at a time, but it seems that a lot of writers do and that out in the real publishing world most authors are editing one novel while trying to write the next, due to their contract of a book a year.
Its all a bit alien to me and I feel like I’m going to get confused. I’m used to doing a little bit of this and a little bit of that, challenges and prompts, but nothing I have to really concentrate on or commit to. So I’ve organised my schedule allocating different days each week to a different novel but I’m so tempted to just put one on the back burner and concentrate on the other. I’m not sure my brain can cope with all these characters at the same time, all shouting for my attention!
So how do you do it? Do you work on more than one project at a time? And if you do, how do you stop yourself from ending up with characters who sound the same just with different names lol
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The View Outside 