Getting serious

I finally feel like I am getting serious. I updated and printed my “long sheet” - steps that are going to happen with a little detail, then created one line bullet points for the story. Whew. Now I’m feeling like a real writer.

Listened today to part of Writers on Writing with Audrey Niffeneggar, author of the simply amazing “The Time Traveller’s Wife”, and I HAVE to reread it. Her prose are so amazing.

Now I know what to do with my Christmas iPod…lots of writing podcasts, cool.

I actually thought (and am still thinking) of writing a non-fiction book on spirituality (and/or parenting), and while I was considering how I could use and share what I know, it seemed impossibly simple that people in my life could be used. My mom has Alzheimer’s and her journey could very much parallel my protagonist’s mother’s journey from Sorcerer Queen to God-like icon. I need a better fix on who to model the other characters on.