I have written more words on this one novel than I care to admit. I have scrapped those words even more than I care to admit. It is a novel that has haunted my head for many, many years. There are times when I want to quit writing it, but it waits patiently for me like a thief in the night. It sits quietly in … Continue reading One Word After Another
Well, I did it. I wrote and posted something new every day for 30 days. I wrote that I wanted to expose myself through writing and I don’t know if anyone reading this learned anything new about me, but I know during this challenge that I learned a lot about myself. I went into myself with a flash light and explored all the dark nether regions … Continue reading Recap of 30 Day Writing Challenge
Today in the 30 Day Writing Challenge, I was going to post a poem, but I got the tweet below and decided to write about something else: validation. As a writer, you hope someone or anyone reads what you write and if if they read it, you hope they like it and might want to read more of what you write. When Amy tweeted the … Continue reading Validation
So yesterday’s 30 Day Writing Challenge was an erotica piece that I wrote and let me tell you, it was the most difficult thing I wrote. I’m not sure how erotica writers make it read so effortlessly. Making sex sound sexy and enticing is hard work. You can’t have an erotic story use the word penis and vagina without sounding clinical and using the word “member” … Continue reading What I Learned Writing My First Erotica Piece
On the list for today’s 30 Days of Writing Challenge is: pushing boundaries/limits. When I came up with my list of things to write about, I decided I wanted to push myself to write thing I normally wouldn’t share publically. I am pushing myself out of my safe and comfort zone. Later in the month, I want to write a short story that falls in … Continue reading Boundaries Be Damned
So my friend, Mike, and I are doing a 30 day, 1 post a day writing challenge starting September 1st. We can write about whatever we want as long as we write something/anything and post it. Doesn’t seem hard, right? I struggle with writing 500 words daily in whatever work in progress (WIP) I’m working on! So this is going to be tough while I’m … Continue reading 30 Day Writing Challenge: Exposing Myself Through Writing
“God damnit, get out of my head!” is what I want to scream at this novel (aka Work in Progress or WIP). It’s been in my head too long. It’s become like a slow killing infection. My thoughts are consumed by it, my imagination is drowning in it, but it refuses to come together. It fights every word I write. It throws temper tantrums at … Continue reading Frustrated Writer
I’m two days away from the end of my writing challenge and I will be honest. I am no where near close to 75,000 words. The only good thing I can say about this writing challenge is that it got me to write again and that is something I hadn’t done seriously since January 2010. The funny thing is I know I can write a … Continue reading What Am I So Afraid Of?
As the month of April creeps closer and closer to ending and the Writing a Book in a Month challenge comes closer to an end as well, I realize that I am A) no where near the 75,000 word goal B) didn’t write 7 days a week C) wrote one chapter that was so hard to pull out of my head and put into words … Continue reading April Writing Update
Yesterday wasn’t a great writing day for me. If I’m going to finish this novel by April 30th, it’s going to be down right impossible if I continue having writing days like yesterday. Why was yesterday so bad? I wrote ZERO words. It takes words to fill a page…pages to fill a chapter…chapters to fill a book. I accomplished a big fat nothing. I tried. … Continue reading Inspired