Well, on the blog.  Still buried alive in work, can’t see light at end of tunnel. Possible cataclysmic event happening in life.  Haven’t slept properly since the workload began…

On the upside, I hit 4 out of 7 doing my 15 minute minimum of creative writing per day, this week I’m only 1 for 3, but trying.

Also getting BETTER at reading, writing, etc.  But mostly writing.  I’m actually CRAFTING now, not just diarhea on the page…

Postponing accredited BA while I continue WriterStudio.com program.  It’s growing me, it’s so awesome.

What else?  Reading Middlemarch and A Thousand Words for Stranger.  Middlemarch rock,  IMO.  Stranger is, well, scifi hard core, but not bad.

Tired, must go work, blech…

Excellent selection of advice for us creative types, from the too-awesome “I Should be Writing“:

http://isbw.murlafferty.com/2008/07/07/what-do-i-tell-you-whats-my-mantra/

It’s funny, perhaps this is the opposite of what I posted yesterday, but it IS ok to suck, because you have to get through the suckiness to get better.

Lots and LOTS of suckiness 

But seriously, we may be born with a certain purpose or a predilection toward a certain skill, but even the top selling artists around the world PRACTICE.  No one is born a master at their craft.

That’s all that needs to be said.  Keep writing…

hey, there, I know it’s been A LONG time since I wrote, but I’ve been buried alive in work.  OK, so yesterday over at Freelance Writing Gigs I saw this:

http://www.freelancewritinggigs.com/2008/07/advice-for-new-writers-from-stephen-king/

He’s absolutely right.  It happened to me just a few weeks ago, lol…

If you’ve read some of my older posts, you know that I usually keep a running story in my head.  Now, while I am not a fan of romance genre, I am ALWAYS a fan of romance in a story or plot.  If there isn’t one, I tend to get bored…hence my dislike of war movies and Westerns.  (War novels are DIFFERENT, and “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin” as well as “A Thread of Grace” are the two I’m thinking of that I love.)

This little running story is a period piece in England and early Americas (so the mid-1700s), and involves a wealthy demure noble teen who is “ruined”, the guy who saves her (completely cast with Clive Owens), and her future.  On vacation, this novel came to mind.  I didn’t bring a book, which is not an issue - even if I had time to read in the bathroom, the light is entirely too dim to even see your butt at my resort - so I turned again to my story.  Only this time I realized that I never had the initial bad guy factor back in and boom!  I thought I had a pretty good story.  I’m wondering if I should write it?

I like what I’m hearing about romance, about its strict structure.  So, given that I have this dargone fantasy epic killing me, I’ve decided to deadline it.   I’ve discovered through one of my writing lists this very affordable course:

http://www.midwillamettevalleyrwa.com/online.classes.htm

I’d like to take the September course, which gives me a completion deadline of 9/1 for Shapeshifters (again, that in no way at all describes my novel).  If it’s not done by then, it’s over, I’m moving on or just putting out what I have and moving on to something new.

BTW, I completed my short story.  Now I just have to figure out mood/tone and adjust.  Yay, GO ME!