Write Club 2014 1st round posting is today!

I'm anxiously awaiting the post of the 32 entries that made the cut to round 1 of Write Club. Good luck to everyone that entered, I look forward to reading all the submissions.

Rainy Days and Writing Breaks

I usually love rainy days, the gloom outside my windows is suprisingly....inspirational. But the last week here in NE PA has been, to say the least...uninspirational to the 10th power :/. So today, I saved and closed my best friend for the last year (said word document containing a world that I imagine would scare the hell out of me if I was really there), and signed into my neglected blog. Ive been feeling guilty with myself really, sometimes the story im attempting to write consumes every thought in my head, and sometimes it refuses to come out, i imagine the story itself is stopping me from going any further....you see, it wants to go one way, and I of course, want it to go somewhere else entirely. So at the moment, we are at a standoff, silly as it sounds, eventually the story will gain its strength and push me to follow down its rabbit hole, instead of mine. My green must be showing as far as being a blogger, I dont know if anyone could relate to this, but when im not writing my manuscript (or giving it the stare of persuasion), I feel like any other writing I do could be better spent working on said manuscript. But I digress, any writing is good and as im filling in the blankk spaces here, it does feel good, connecting, sharing, telling, releasing.

I look at blogs probably daily and I've come to an opinion, we all want to share something that will inspire someone even for a brief moment, If you're reading this, then I hope you somehow connected with even a few words, and I think my therapeutic exercise in blogging has pulled me over a hump that I thought would last for days. Write, write, write -- if its all you can do but to sit and get words down, then you're meant to keep sitting down and getting those words down. I'm pulling for you, without ever knowing who you are, because in the end, anyone passionate enough to store a world not of their own inside their head, and spin that into a story to share with anyone who will read it. Is EXTRAORDINARY..til next time :)

Are you ready for Write Club?

Get your info here, submissions deadline is tonight at midnight!

Beginnings

Ive learned a lot in the 2 years...yes 2 whole years-- that I've been writing my manuscript. I've taken a lot of good advice and applied that to my writing. I get so excited about scenes that just pan out perfectly, other times I'm squeezing my forehead with my idle fingers...so many extremes. But I trudge on and  think I've laid my story out quite well, even though it still isn't finished....back to the blinking cursor...I swear sometimes it's mocking me. 

 

WRITE CLUB

Its time for Write Club! You can go here http://www.dlhammons.com/p/write-club-2014.html to get all the information if you decide to enter, and I highly recommend it ;). Good luck to everyone entering!

Revisions

My favorite part of writing my MS, is the revising. I tend to do this while writing, which I have to stop myself before it takes over and I never finish the MS to revise the end product. So..at this point, the initial writing is done and the revising has begun. This is a good place for me to be, ive taken extra time to write the MS for about a year and a half, life, work, kids, all factor into that. But I think in the end, it has made me take my time with the precious minutes I have to sit down and concentrate on what story is being spun. I feel good about the writing, ive reread the whole MS after letting it sit, and it still amazes me. Goosebumps, anger, tears all come when they are supposed to. Ive learned alot about storytelling on the querytracker site, the infomation there is invaluable. Though ive yet to write my final query letter, that is one exercise I am putting off until it needs to be addressed. Write, write write - the best advice ive taken from anyone offering the tools to great writing.

NanoWrimo

I just signed up for NanoWrimo and am hopeful that this step will give me the inspiration I need to venture farther into my MS. The words are there, they are fighting each other on the way out to my keyboard. Like a dozen toddlers on a simultaneous tantrum. :) onward