Long Hand

With five people in my household ranging in age from 13 to 52 getting computer time becomes an exercise in patience. I have promised myself if I ever make any money at my writing it will go toward a lap top of my very own. Today the story was fairly bursting from my fingertips. I decided to write the old fashioned way; longhand. My daughter asked me what that meant. She said writing doesn't make your hands long so it makes no sense. Irregardless, I felt very good about my effort I got over 1300 words written in the sequel. I am muddling over a scene in the main novel so it once again has stalled me in that effort. Like my children each of the works begs for attention but some are just more vocal than others and doing much more interesting things so admittedly they are the ones that get the most attention from me.
Our Book Club read 'Little Women' this month, I am wracking my brain to remember if I read it before. I know I read 'Little Men' within the last ten years. I only read the first half before the meeting but was so enthralled that I finished it this week. What a delightful story. It was wonderful; great characters and highly moral. I can't recommend it enough as a reread or discover it for the first time.
My mother-in-law loved words and I found a million dollar one Louisa May Alcott uses: philoprovenitiveness which means-love of children.
Yes, I'm writing this in the middle of the night because all my competitors are in bed. So good night.

Signs and Omens

I often doubt my own right to write. I wonder if the projects I am doing are worthwhile. Then something happens call it coincidence, call it providence, I call it divine affirmation.
The sequel to my main novel has crept into my conscience and begged for me to give it voice. I started writing and 20 pages or so into it the doubt crept in. Then miraculously I am asked to give a Sunday School lesson on the theme of this sequel. Then a friend calls and asks me to come over. I thought we were going to discuss an adult literacy program she wanted to start. Instead she tells me she is thinking of writing a book. She used to work for a publishing company and did a lot of promotional things for them, so the publishing and promotional part is no problem but she just needs a muse and I'm it. It's another answer to a prayer now I have no excuses. The doors are open I just need to walk through. Now she has got me entering contests and looking at submitting stories for magazines. The ball is rolling I just need to try to keep up. Wheee!!!

Live to write

In all my stories I have a general idea of where I want my characters to go. I have the outline basically in my head or if it's too complicated I actually will make a written outline. Here is where the magic happens watching my characters come to life on the paper. Character 'A' needs to get from home to point 'B' where he meets Character 'B'. But the fun is watching them react, interact and converse. Most of the time I'm not sure what they are going to do until I start to type it and then they may take a little jog I wasn't anticipating or someone who was bad in my mind turns out to only be quirky once I get them on paper. I love to write and if no one ever reads anything I write it will not matter to me in the least because I enjoy reading it and am in ecstasies writing it. Today I got down 1270 words on the sequel to the epic fantasy/sf novel. Way to go me!

Writing Binge

It was wonderful, almost heady, I wrote all day today. I started with the long neglected love story and actually wrote 992 words, then 251 on the main novel and finally tonight I got 725 on the sequel. Grand total of 1968 words almost 2000. I wonder if the music helps. I listened to the last track on the soundtrack of What a Woman Wants on repeat. It's just a soft romantic instrumental piece. Then this evening I listen to Le Miserable.
Needless to say I more pleased than punch. The boys are waiting for the computer so I'll keep this short.
All I can say is Write On!!!

So B. It

I just finished reading Sarah Weeks Young novel called, So B. It. My sisters who are both school teachers recommended it. It was very good. Very gripping. I also finished the First of the Jimmy Fincher books. Lots of action and confusion.
I wrote today too. 484 words in the fairytale novel and 274 in the epic fantasy novel. It's amazing how it takes me the same amount of time to write a page and a half as it does for me to read a hundred pages.

Writing Log

I have decided that I would like to keep track of my writing. See if I can't be a little more consistent. I was so thrilled last week when I wrote 764 words on my fairy tale story but am disappointed that I haven't written anything since. I did research for the second in my 'Worlds Without End' series for about an hour today but that doesn't get the story down on paper. I am on a reading bing and have probably read 10-12 books in the past two weeks; mostly young adult fiction and light romance (no porn!)[read about five Laura London, romance novels: hero terrible rake, heroine a nubile innocent. Leven Thumps Eyes of the Want by Obert Skye. Mira, Mirror by Mette Ivie Harrison. Dark Lord of Dernhold by Diane Wynn Jones(she wrote Howl's Moving Castle). My son-in-law gave me The Diving Bell and the Butterfly for Christmas: heartrending and thought provoking. Jenna Starborn, Sharon Shinn's Science fiction take on Jane Eyre. Currently reading the James Dashner series about Jimmy Fincher.]
I have heard that a good writer is a dedicated reader but at some point the reading has to end and the writing must start. I may be the only one who reads this but it's purpose is to keep me writing and writing and writing.