Month: March 2010

It’s time to ask my writer friends for some advice: I need to find a way to strike a balance between writing and life. I’ve written about this on my other blog, but not here. It seems that when I’m focusing on my writing, everything else falls by the...

In an effort to get over the disappointment of not finaling in the Golden Heart, I’ve been a busy, busy writer. 😀 No giving up for me, no sir. I spent the weekend working on a synopsis for “Blind Date Bride” and reworking the ending on my losing GH...

Nothing like a little disappointment — or a lot — to make you realize you need to work harder. Today, I spent some time before work trying to come up with a synopsis for next year’s GH entry, which I want to enter in a contest with an April...

How long am I allowed to wallow in disappointment before it morphs into full-blown depression? Right now, I can’t seem to concentrate on anything more taxing than a box of Chicken McNuggets chased with a carton of Ben & Jerry’s. I’ll give myself the rest of the night to...

My heart picked up speed when I checked the caller ID and saw a number I didn’t recognize. It raced a little faster when I flipped open the phone. “Hello?” No, it wasn’t someone from the Golden Heart committee calling to tell me I’d finaled. It was Sean, from...

Normally, I sleep until at least 9 a.m. I have to, after working until midnight most nights and not getting to sleep until after 3 a.m. This morning, however, I wanted to take advantage of “Free Pastry Day” at Starbucks. (It’s not often you can get something for nothing,...

The old saw says there are three R’s — readin’ ‘ritin’ and ‘rithmetic — but I gave up on that last one years ago. These days, I find myself struggling to strike the right balance between the other two. I’ve heard many, many writers say that to write well,...

I figure there’s one sure way to beat Golden Heart anxiety: By keeping myself too busy to think about the elusive Call that I could get sometime Thursday. That’s at least one of the reasons I’ve set down not one, not two, but THREE goals to accomplish before our...

I love attending my NARWA meetings because I always come back inspired. Today, as a carpool of one, I even got to plot out a couple of scenes in my head. I missed the conversation and companionship on the drive, but the thinking time was great — and it...

Thanks to inspiration that struck on the drive down to the Boyfriend’s, I ended up writing 2,595 words today. According to the Excel spreadsheet I’ve been keeping, that’s almost the most words I’ve written in a single day. (Only one day is higher, with 2702.) Now I’m that much...