Writer-In-Progress

The writing went well today. This morning, actually.

 

Why is it when summer rolls around I think I can write so much more–since I don’t have lesson plans to create or papers to grade–but I spend significant time NOT writing.

 

I think it’s the schedule thing. When I don’t have to go in to school, I don’t have any reason to try and get things done in a timely fashion. I can set my own schedule, work on my own time and luxuriate over one perfect word for an hour.

 

Not realistic if I want to become a full-time writer, is it?

 

Ah, well. I’ll work on it. I’m about five pages away from finishing another short story, and next week I’m participating in an online write-all-you-can-in-one-week challenge hosted by my local RWA group. Gotta get this short done so I can work on the time travel I started a few years ago. I know, I should be working on the contemporary I challenged myself to finish by the end of this year but I’m still struggling with the heroine.

 

Off to write…

Beth

While enjoying my lunch (over a messy desk full of reports that need to be finished by the end of the school year, which happens to be today), I realized I’d not posted in some time. Mostly because the writing is going so well in the mornings (working on a short story as a reprieve from my novella-in-progress for another reason to maybe be discussed later).

 

So I logged on to send a post via email and found a note from a fellow writer who read one of my online articles on romance writing (Help! I Want to Be A Romance Writer at http://www.dabblingmum.com) and had, what appeared at first glance, to be a question on a query letter (as she wrote in the subject line), but instead had several other questions embedded.

 

One of the cool things about being a freelancer and choosing to write about (at least at this point in my life…I might change sometime) only things I really like/love/care about is that when I get these emails from readers asking advice, I feel smart. True, I’m not published in novel-length fiction yet, but I do know a little about writing (it would fill a thimble). And I love sharing whatever I know with whomever cares to ask.

 

And for the record, I really, really love writing query letters. I know–I’m insane (queries for nonfiction. Have only written one for fiction & that was some time ago) but that should come as no real surprise. I like it that way!

 

I’ll do my best to stop by here more often. But when the writing flows, the last thing I want to do is take myself out of that fantasy of word flow.