Saturday, October 22, 2005
Ear Plugs At The Library
This is not another blog about my screaming children, honest. I love going to the library to write, to get the words out of my head and on to the screen and to be able to focus solely on what I am creating. Today two young women sat beside me at the library and started to talk about their loves and...
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Thursday, October 20, 2005
The Trials Of The Technically Challenged.
Well I finally did it. I gave in to my husband and let him buy me a new computer. I loved my old computer, but it was, well, old. Not only old, but terribly out of date and nearly impossible to run anything new on. Even blogging wasn’t all that easy. So I said sure, let’s get a new computer. And we...
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Thursday, October 13, 2005
A Little Affirmation Goes A Long Way
So I’ve been working away at this whole “being a writer” thing. My husband has sat back, a little amused I think, at what he considered a little flight of fancy on my part. I would tell him about an idea or something good that happened to me in my writing life and he would nod and smile a distracted...
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Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Time To Hang It All Up!
Have you ever read something so astoundingly brilliant, so achingly beautiful, that you suddenly realized that you have no business calling yourself a writer. That happened to me this week. I was reading a collection of Canadian short stories from a book called “From Ink Lake” and realized that even...
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Sunday, October 9, 2005
The View From Here
I wonder how many people stop seeing their world? How many times have you looked out your window but not actually seen the world out there? Do you see the important people in your life, or do you just glance over them, their features as well known to you as your own? Have you stopped really looking...
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Wednesday, October 5, 2005
Inspiration - What Works For Some Won’t Work For Everyone
Sometimes you just come up empty. You know you should write something, flex the fingers that hold your pen, or tap the keyboard, but you’ve got nothing. For a while I subscribed to a writing magazine's monthly writing prompts. I suppose that they work for some people, but I found them to be far less...
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Tuesday, October 4, 2005
That Sounded So Much Better In My Head
This has happened to me more than once; I’ll get a great writing idea while driving in the car, or walking with the kids. I’ll have it all fleshed out and even have wandered over some dialogue. But as soon as I try to either explain the idea, or write it out, it seems weaker, or worse, just plain...
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Monday, October 3, 2005
Blogging For The Self-absorbed
I was looking back over some of my blogs recently and have come to the conclusion that really, despite often writing about my kids, it’s really all about me. Me, me, me, me, me! I’ve never really thought of myself as being all that self-absorbed, but clearly I am. Even if I am entertaining you, or...
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Saturday, October 1, 2005
Discovering My Space
You may recall that Saturday mornings are my time off, to go and do things for myself, and to not be a mommy for a few hours. It is sacred. And it’s my time to get some serious writing done. I have discovered that my local library is a great place to write. It’s quiet, but not a silent tomb. I can...
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Friday, September 16, 2005
Eavesdropping On A Writer’s Group
My Writing Group met last weekend. We discussed our latest efforts, successes and failures – you know the usual stuff. One thing that I did notice that we talked up quite a bit was writing material. You know, paper, pencils, pens, notebooks. What is it with writers that we get so hung up on the...
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