Comments on: Off to a late start

By: Jordan

Jordan — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:40:54 +0000

I’ve absolutely fallen out of the habit. It dawned on me today that I really haven’t written down any firm goals for the next few months. I need to do that ASAP.

By: Cece

Cece — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 20:05:48 +0000

if I’d kept writing steadily this wouldn’t be happening.

JOrdan..I hear you. I think that’s part of my problem. I’ve fallen out of the habit, along with pissing on my characters…..

By: Cece

Cece — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 20:04:51 +0000

Jill…. I write in both so switching doesn’t bother me….too much. I prefer first though

Can I ask what you mean by before you knew better?

By: Jordan

Jordan — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:23:53 +0000

Suzanne, I think that’s why I’ve decided to read through my paranormal partial again. I may not be getting one page a day, but I am managing to add a sentence here and a paragraph there. At this point I’ll take ANY form of writing I can get.

I can almost hear Stephen King in my head saying that if I’d kept writing steadily this wouldn’t be happening.

By: coffee jill

coffee jill — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:31:58 +0000

Thanks for the congrats Cece. How kind of you! I was raked over the coals yesterday by a very bright person who picked apart my first chapter of my current WIP. Everything she said was totally accurate and made all manner of sense, but I SO did not want to hear it. This is my first work in the third person. My first two were done in first person before I knew any better. I truly believe I have lost my “voice” somewhere in the change over- there is definitely a distance there and the humor is lost. So you live and learn. And back to the keyboard.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 11:20:52 +0000

My writing has been going really slowly lately, Jordan. I’ve lost my mojo. If I find it, I’ll let you know. In the meantime, I’m just pushing myself one page at a time.

By: Wendywoo

Wendywoo — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 08:46:52 +0000

If it’s any comfort, I’m not really writing at all at the moment… but I am doing tons and tons of my other creative ‘thing’ ie. web work!

When I’m ‘befuddled’ I have to allow myself to step back for a little while. I try to be kind to myself ie. have a coffee and some chocolate, and I try not to panic and ‘force’ things to happen. Eventually, I start looking at the situation in a more positive light and inspiration starts to seep in gradually… Sort of…

By: Cece

Cece — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 08:34:39 +0000

Gee Dream thanks

You better finish that WIP!!!! I need a good laugh and your humor is FREAKING PRICELESS!!! I almost don’t wonder if part of it is knowing that there’s a partial at a major pub. that’s slowing you down. It does tend to put the pressure on and freak one out a bit.

Jill congrats on the promotion and the mentor. I love mine. She’s a godsend who’s talked me down from the ceiling more times than I deserve. And sleep is overrated

By: Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 05:00:42 +0000

Cece, your characters are just plain ol’ PISSED at you! .

Afraid I have no answers–just lots of befuddlement of my own…it’s a paragraph here, one there, etc., etc…

I love my characters. They even whisper lines to me. Love the storyline. Have a partial at a major publisher, & haven’t finished the novel. Have blamed it on hormones, winter blahs, work stress and my cats.

All sad excuses–when I know the REAL truth is that I’ve been put under some kind of evil spell by a best-selling author who knows I’ll take the publishing world by storm,leaving her books in the half-off rack…

By: Jordan

Jordan — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:36:23 +0000

Congrats on the seven pages and newfound mentor, Jill. You should be thrilled. I’m kind of mixed on your promotion. I’m happy for you, but I hate to hear it’ll take away from your writing. :-/