Hello,
Sometimes it gets hard to write, the words will not flow, my story seems too hackneyed at best and uninteresting at worst and I have to ask myself why am I doing this? It happens to all writers once in a while. I have three ways to get out of this mindset that doesn’t plague me too often thank goodness. The first and best cure to getting myself out of the rut is to read the work of author’s I love. I just finished The Cloud of Unknowing by Thomas H. Cook and working on The March by E.L. Doctorow. Both novels are terrific and the writers make it look so easy and because they can it expires me to keep working on my project in an effort to someday get to where they are in their writing abilities: to get the reader to fall into the story and become entangled with it to their joy. And the only—only—way to do it is to write.
To keep writing is my second cure to the writing blues, just write. It can begin as bad stuff but as I go along a few good lines I can use end up on the page and even sometimes a couple of great ones form and really get me going. I just have to sweat through it and keep writing.
My last cure all for those impossible times is the dream I carry of writing a novel other people will love. We all have to work to make our dreams come true right? And the only way to get my novel out to the world is to write it, no way around it, so the blues, writer’s block, self-pity, lack of confidence, fear, whatever we want to call it; when it gets in the way (try and not let it) but when it does, try my cure alls and I promise you’ll feel much better and have your completed great novel to prove it.
If you have any comments or suggestions please e-mail me at my new address: shabazzl@adasbcc.org.
Until next time, God willing,
Friday, June 29, 2007
Friday, June 22, 2007
Hello and I missed writing to you last week, I really did,
I’m back from vacation, of course somewhat regretfully; and I did write while on vay-k. I spent—a lifetime it seems—standing in lines at Disney World waiting to catch a glimpse of Mickey Mouse and at Universal Studios waiting to be terrified during the Revenge of the Mummy thrill ride. So to pass the time I was lucky enough to write, I took a notebook along just for that purpose.
I was able to finish an outline for You Don’t Know Me while shuffling forward at baby steps. I was also able to write a few pages for the new Owen Story novel: Begin at the End, while I stood still in an endless line of bodies and sweated in the Florida heat. I was happy and surprised I got something completed it made all that waiting and sweating worth it though the rides were good too.
So I did have a great time with my family, a lot of fun with my kids. I saw a number of awesome sites, I ate a massive amount of great food, I met some nice people from not only around the country but from around the world and I wrote. No one could have had a better vacation than I did and oh, how I miss it.
If you have any comments or suggestions please e-mail me at my new address: shabazzl@adasbcc.org.
Until next time, God willing,
Lori
I’m back from vacation, of course somewhat regretfully; and I did write while on vay-k. I spent—a lifetime it seems—standing in lines at Disney World waiting to catch a glimpse of Mickey Mouse and at Universal Studios waiting to be terrified during the Revenge of the Mummy thrill ride. So to pass the time I was lucky enough to write, I took a notebook along just for that purpose.
I was able to finish an outline for You Don’t Know Me while shuffling forward at baby steps. I was also able to write a few pages for the new Owen Story novel: Begin at the End, while I stood still in an endless line of bodies and sweated in the Florida heat. I was happy and surprised I got something completed it made all that waiting and sweating worth it though the rides were good too.
So I did have a great time with my family, a lot of fun with my kids. I saw a number of awesome sites, I ate a massive amount of great food, I met some nice people from not only around the country but from around the world and I wrote. No one could have had a better vacation than I did and oh, how I miss it.
If you have any comments or suggestions please e-mail me at my new address: shabazzl@adasbcc.org.
Until next time, God willing,
Lori
Friday, June 08, 2007
Hello,
It's Friday, yeah!!!
I will be going on vacation so may not blog next Friday though if I get a chance I certainly will. Will I write on vacation? Yes, of course and why not? I'lll do all the vacation things with my kids, see the sights, get a lot of sun, but I'll find time to write because it's what I do and I have to do it everyday to help keep me going. And what if I get a new idea or think of something that will move my current story forward? What? I jot down a note and keep playing volleyball? Maybe, but after the game I will sit and write for a while. Writing is a vacation to me, the freedom to express my thoughts and take the time to write them out without the clock ticking over my head. I work, have a family, other things to do to keep my life going so taking a vacation to do the things I love will always include writing.
You'll hear from me soon--whether you want to or not.
If you have questions or comments I’d love to read them and reply, so please email me at: shabazzl@adasbcc.org.
Until next time, God willing,
Lori
It's Friday, yeah!!!
I will be going on vacation so may not blog next Friday though if I get a chance I certainly will. Will I write on vacation? Yes, of course and why not? I'lll do all the vacation things with my kids, see the sights, get a lot of sun, but I'll find time to write because it's what I do and I have to do it everyday to help keep me going. And what if I get a new idea or think of something that will move my current story forward? What? I jot down a note and keep playing volleyball? Maybe, but after the game I will sit and write for a while. Writing is a vacation to me, the freedom to express my thoughts and take the time to write them out without the clock ticking over my head. I work, have a family, other things to do to keep my life going so taking a vacation to do the things I love will always include writing.
You'll hear from me soon--whether you want to or not.
If you have questions or comments I’d love to read them and reply, so please email me at: shabazzl@adasbcc.org.
Until next time, God willing,
Lori
Friday, June 01, 2007
Hello and happy Friday,
I hope you’re getting a lot of writing done. I’m doing my best though some times the business of writing gets in the way and it can be humbling. For my book I’m sending out requests for blurbs or reviews from other writers and I hate to ask it of them, I know you understand. It’s tough to write as it is, to read and re-read a hundred times your own work, throw in the other things you must do to breath; to live, you have a headache, there are only so many hours in the day and to be asked by another writer you don’t know to take the time to read and review their work? Who needs it?
It’s understandable but we have no choice either. We need to ask those writers to read, to judge our work hoping, praying they will and give it a positive review because it can be the little push needed to get that one person to read our book; just one good word. We look at those blurbs when we pick up a book and if an author has more than one and they all are raving, well, we give that book more of a look don’t we? And most times we take it home with us. We want the same done of our novel and a back cover full of those positive reviews could be the push a reader needs to take our novel on.
I still dislike having to ask for a blurb but I do it anyway, I even ask for one from very popular authors like James Patterson. The writer can of course say no and probably will but as writer’s we’re used to “no” and rejects yet we move forward and keep trying, its wants makes us writers after all.
If you have any comments or suggestions please e-mail me at my new address: shabazzl@adasbcc.org.
Until next time, God willing,
I hope you’re getting a lot of writing done. I’m doing my best though some times the business of writing gets in the way and it can be humbling. For my book I’m sending out requests for blurbs or reviews from other writers and I hate to ask it of them, I know you understand. It’s tough to write as it is, to read and re-read a hundred times your own work, throw in the other things you must do to breath; to live, you have a headache, there are only so many hours in the day and to be asked by another writer you don’t know to take the time to read and review their work? Who needs it?
It’s understandable but we have no choice either. We need to ask those writers to read, to judge our work hoping, praying they will and give it a positive review because it can be the little push needed to get that one person to read our book; just one good word. We look at those blurbs when we pick up a book and if an author has more than one and they all are raving, well, we give that book more of a look don’t we? And most times we take it home with us. We want the same done of our novel and a back cover full of those positive reviews could be the push a reader needs to take our novel on.
I still dislike having to ask for a blurb but I do it anyway, I even ask for one from very popular authors like James Patterson. The writer can of course say no and probably will but as writer’s we’re used to “no” and rejects yet we move forward and keep trying, its wants makes us writers after all.
If you have any comments or suggestions please e-mail me at my new address: shabazzl@adasbcc.org.
Until next time, God willing,
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