So, shoot me for doing something that I want to do and arranging my schedule to fit around it. That’s what I wanted to say to people today. Not in a mean, screw you type way, but in a I have goals and I’m sorry you can’t understand or don’t understand. First, I want to finish both novels that are cycling through my head by … Continue reading Nurturing Me
Barfly is finished. 68,708 words and 23 chapters. It only took me 25 days (from November 21st to Jan 14th) to write from beginning to end. I’m sitting here amazed by that fact…25 days. Yes, I wanted it finished by the end of December, but life is not something you can always plan out and it threw me a major curve ball when it took … Continue reading Barfly
Last night as I sat down to write, the words were struggling to come out. I didn’t like the way the sounded together, apart, and so on. They didn’t move the story forward. They didn’t do anything. They just sat on the page mocking me. I studied my outline, read what I had written, and got nothing. Today, I realized why the last 15,000 words … Continue reading The Last 15,000
It’s Wednesday & it’s 9:46 pm. I was suppose to go see Social Distortion tonight, but I’m mentally drained & really just too freaking exhausted. A load of laundry is drying in the other room and the ice maker is spitting out ice into an empty holder. Ah…the life of a single a lady…also known as being a big girl I set all these goals … Continue reading Just Be