It’s true I’ve been gone a while. And it’s also true I’ve not been on top of my game with the whole writing thing. Life intervenes, saps energy, drains creativity, sucks away precious time.
Yeah, you get the point. After finishing my thesis three days before it was due, I happily claimed my diploma in December with grand plans of jumping right back into writing where I left off. I didn’t count on the fact that I needed to get myself back into prime writing condition. Takes time to start waking up at 4:30 on a regular basis (even with the impatient whining of my lovable dog Omar demanding her morning walk).
I’m glad to say–I think I’m back in the groove. None too soon, either. I’ve got a major deadline coming up–Feb. 5th for an April article–and haven’t started yet. I’ve brainstormed and have a working outline which, for all intents and purposes, serves as my first draft. (Maybe I should translate that to my fiction writing…hmm….). Planned to put BICHOK into action yesterday but it just didn’t get done. No worries…my self-imposed deadline isn’t for another week and a few days.
One cool note is that I’ll be teaching an online course at the Hearts Through History RWA site this summer. Entitled “From Fiction to Freelance in 8.2 Seconds”, it’s meant to help give fiction writers a solid foundation for using all that acquired knowledge to break into the freelance market. I’m really excited and looking forward to it.
Hearts Through History offers some killer workshops for writers. Took one last year on sensuality in writing and it was a gem. If you’re interested, here’s their main class list:
http://www.heartsthroughhistory.com/class.htm
and here’s mine:
http://www.heartsthroughhistory.com/freelance.htm
Here’s to meeting all those lofty 2007 writing goals…
Beth
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