From Maire’s father, Barry… “Compare your passion for writing to a passion for making cookies. You could just make cookies because you love to, because it’s therapeutic, and there’s nothing wrong with that. However, if you don’t present them attractively and add your own touch, and if you don’t make them available to anyone else, [...]
Archive > June 2009
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“Priorities, Toxicity, and Putting Up With Shit.”
Dame Lili at Deadline Dames wrote a great post about the what and how of taking your writing seriously. The article came at exactly the write time, and I had to share it.
No wonder.
Gluten-free Cinnamon Chex has nonfat milk as an ingredient. No wonder I can’t eat it! Sometimes I want to kick myself for not figuring out the obvious sooner.
-phew-
Still plowing forward on the second draft. I’m on chapter ten, and today I had to add in a scene. I thought that I was getting tired of the book, but writing a new scene was really fun, and I realized that it’s the editing I’m tired of. I can’t wait for this part to [...]
Holy smokes.
Our outside thermostat hit 103F today. In the shade. I didn’t know it could go that high. More than that I’ve never WANTED to see it go that high. -melt-
Second draft.
It’s slow-going, to be sure. And painful. Line by line and minute by minute. I’m on chapter four and hope to be finished by the middle of July. But I WILL BE DONE at some point which is all that really matters, right?
Wtf?
About three minutes after eating a very small piece of kiwi today my throat and mouth started itching like I had allergies. That itch progressed to my eyes, and eventually to a very stuffy nose and sneezing. Was it the kiwi? I don’t know for sure, because it was mixed with strawberries and pineapple and [...]
