February 12, 2008
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I sure miss writing. I was in the grocery store the other day and flashed on a character from my novel. I missed the family, the location, the process. Not enough to finish editing it apparently. Last summer I went on a camping trip with a memoir that changed my mind. When I got home I emailed my writing group that I was switching. I wanted to work on my own memoir. I hadn’t planned on showing it to anyone for a very long time but the book I’d read over the weekend changed my mind about writing fiction.
In my group were some really neat people. I felt so lucky because not only were they good writers we all got along, and it seemed like we were similarly inclined in terms of our priorities. You know like with deadlines and getting work in on time. I totally dropped the ball, though, in the end. I’ve dropped a lot of balls since the holidays. But I’ve got my priorities straight.
Anyhoo, just typing the entry about the sculptors was a little bit enticing. I still can’t get over puzzling the significance — Is it something to do with thinking three-dimensionally? Mia brought that up and I’ve been thinking about the implications but I don’t know what they are
. Going around to see what you all have been up to is fun. Of course Jeri has been hard at it all these months, plugging away at her craft, getting better each and every year. That’s why it’s bad to stop. It’s like anything else. Use it or lose it.
I don’t know about you guys but everyone I know has a cold. Even people in other states. It’s like an epidemic here. People get it again, passing it back and forth. It’s more like a flu than a cold. And it has a personality. It makes you feel like you’re a complete zero. Like you are one big blah. I never, EVER feel like that is why I know it’s the bug talking. Today was the first time I’ve left the house or even been outside in four days. My daughter and her boyfriend have it, too, and we all keep each other up at night coughing. I can’t wait to be well.
Comments (12)
Hola Pru-dance, It has been a long time I was glad to hear from you. It looks as if a lot has been going on in both our lives…Good for us! I love the photo you are so beautiful and your smile is wonderful. And congratulations on the Creative men that you are drawing into your life, I hope you have fun and great time.
My editor runs a group for writing memoirs but this is such a small town I am not sure that it would be the wisest thing to do at this time. What do you get out of being in your group?
Well I have to run long day ahead, but thanks again for stopping by!
Blessings,
Ashes
ack… the craft is getting better, but i’m still not making any progress– so i’m not sure which of us is the smarter one. it’s nice to have you back tho! very nice!
Nice to see your post today. I’ve been missing my kind of writing too, though I’ve always maintained that it’s purely for fun and works best without deadlines and constrictions. I do wonder what I might accomplish if I pushed myself harder, however. Hmmmm.
I love your profile picture. You are very pretty. Thanks for the comment, and advice. I feel better knowing you care:) Thank you.
I hope you get over that flu soon.
Man, I sooo need to get back to writing. I can’t really call myself a writer if I;m not writing, now can I?
And yes, the cold has been making its rounds in these parts as well. Ugh!
I hope the plague leaves your household soon. And I hope that you find some more time for writing . . .
With your face and your built you must look very nice when you dance. About the photo slides it is very easy. You upload photo and use Xanga photo manager easily.
My community seems to have been spared.We are so overdue! I wish I had the discipline to try and write.I think it could be quite a challenge and adventure but my time ,and my thoughts seem to allocated and not free for it.I hope someday you and perhaps i can find it in ourselves ,and that we will be free to write something that is meaningful to us and significant as a work of fiction or a memoir as well.
RYC: Thank you Prudy! I sure hope you’re right. You’re not so bad yourself, you know. . .
I had that cold/flue just before Christmas and I don’t want it back!!!
This is my year to rewrite my novel… and maybe outline/start another. The only higher priority is family and hopefully there won’t be any crises this year.
RYC: In all honesty, it would be more accurate to say I’m a sometime writer. I wrote the first draft of this novel in 2001. As for NaNo… I tried it two years and thought about it last year, but I never got anywhere with it. Even my novel first draft is less than the NaNo goal. I can’t write more than a short short without some kind of outline to tell me where to go. If I were fully prepared I know I could do it, though. The 35,000 words took only about a week to write… hmm…. If I haven’t done the rewrite by next NaNo, maybe I’ll bend the rules and do that.