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Keep on keeping on...
This morning as I was touching up the color in my hair I decided to use the time to clean my son's room. Not in-depth, by any means. I didn't have THAT much time. :) But to tidy it up, run the vacuum, etc. And as I was sifting through the layers of small-boy detritus, I was thinking about writing.
Writing, for me, is sort of like cleaning that room. I sift through layers and layers of crap until occasionally I find that idea (or that Matchbox car) that I want to keep. Sometimes I wander around in the dark and step on something small that hurts like h-e-double toothpicks. Sometimes I come across something that smells really, really bad. And I can never really get through all the dirt or all the ideas in one shot.
His room still isn't clean, btw, and I'll admit I'm more lax than a lot of mothers I know simply because I believe I'm not the only person who lives in this house and therefore should not be the only one cleaning. He'll have to do some work when he gets home from school. But I straightened and threw away some broken junk and found all the dirty laundry I need to clean.
I hope my writing day is the same! I have a short story to finish up -- I thought it was done but as I was doing the final edits I realized I wanted to add some more bits. Not much. Ten pages, perhaps, a day's work. But it's a day's work I wasn't expecting.
Just like I wasn't expecting to clean my kids' room today.
But that's part of writing, too, rolling with the punches and going with what happens. I'd planned to work on my novel. I'll work on the short story, instead. And in doing that, taking that break from the longer work, I think I'll come back to it with fresh eyes. At least I hope so!
At the very least, I'm looking forward to working today. It beats the heck out of cleaning!
M
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God...
If this is the case, then my writing lately would be more like remodeling the same room over and over and over... new color, or a slightly different shade. Change the furniture, move it around, no -- that's not right -- maybe on the other wall? Maybe throw it all out and get new?
Maybe burn the house down and forget it, collect insurance and take off to Fiji?
(Just kidding for any insurance investigators out there, LOL) But you get the writing metaphor.
There are days when cleaning feels so good, because it's a million times more productive than the writing, or how the writing feels -- yes, we're working our way to the finished product by revising that thing over and over, but it does have the "running in place" feeling until we get there...
Now I am mixing metaphors. Who knows what could happen next? LOL Good luck to you with your work today, Megan, all of it. :)
Sam
I finished my story, just
I finished my story, just waiting for feedback on it, now.
Congrats on your Rita final!!!!!
EDITED TO ADD: Well, apparently some people got writing done today!! Go Megan! I hope the feedback is light and all glowing. :)
Wahoo!
Thanks!
Needless to say, no writing was done today, LOL
S
Congratulations!!
How exciting, Sam! When and how do we vote??
Thanks Ani!
Your vote always means something to me, but RITA is an industry contest, so the books are judged by other romance authors. :)
I guess I'd better start being extra nice to my Cigars buddies, huh??? LOL
*G*
S
Hooray!!
Yay, Sam!!!
And Megan, oy, not a writer, but housework is a never-ending task--I always feel as if what I've done (not much) isn't nearly enough or well done enough, and it's an ongoing spiral of non-love ;)
I don't have a good metaphor for mine...
Lately, my writing has seemed very fragile. I guess I'm more like a house cleaner, dusting the breakables.
I have edits to enter today. Galleys to get done over the weekend, I guess. The scary part is working on new projects after that. I'd much rather clean my son's room, lol.
Dee
I have one more project to
I have one more project to finish before I can move on...and I'm ready for it!
*cringe*
I'm not a writer... but I do have a thesis I'm basically supposed to be done with. In fact, I haven't started it. My house... is/should be condemned. It's been abandoned, uncared for, and is empty empty empty. Oh dear.
OH my!
OH my!
Sam, pass the torch
I'm in the torch it and run category today *g* But I always am when I start a book. To take the cleaning analogy, its like waking up the morning after an insanely wild party, knowing your parents are going to be home in an hour and having no clue where to start.
Not that I ever experienced that personally, of course *innocent look*
LOL!!! Suuuuure, Tawny.
LOL!!! Suuuuure, Tawny. Sure.
Yeah
I think I saw pictures on YouTube somewhere, heh...
Sam
LOL!
Uh, of course not, Tawny!! :)
*Snicker*
Oops, forgot about YouTube LOL.
Sam... you rock, btw :-D Congrats on the RITA nod, thats so awesome.
cleaning
Washing dishes, and sweeping and mopping the floors seem to give me my best ideas. The characters really get chatty then, not that I could type as fast as they talk, but it seems like the tasks are so mundane that they leave my mind free to work on my WIP.
LindaC
I get a lot of ideas when
I get a lot of ideas when I'm driving, also when I can't take notes. :)
M
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