My Writing…
6.07.2006Jay asked me to blog about my experience of writing. I consider myself a novice writer with a great deal of potential. I am almost cchildlike in my writing. I fall in love with my own words and don’t see a "need" to rewrite them. Yikes! I get that attitude blasted out of the water by publishers and editors!
I belong to a writer’s group I love. We do free writing "pen on paper for 15 minutes no matter what" and then share our writing. It’s not usually something I end up using as a submission piece, but I get immediate positive feedback and I thrive on that. Doing that twice a month usually gets me through the, "ack they hate it" stage with my submissions.
My discipline for myself is to submit something every month. Mostly to anthologies, although I have submitted a portion of a novel I’m working on. It can be hard to find a call for submissions for every month, but wtihout that discipline, my writing goes in circles and really gets self-centered and childlike, which is not a bad thing, but is not productive generally.
I am not a morning person, by ANY stretch of the imagination. But when I’m in the middle of a project, I’ll wake at 3 am, come into my den and light candles and incense, put on some music and write happily for 2 hours or so. It is the magic time for my writing. I do my rewrites by daylight, but love my writing time during the night.
Just a reminder, although we won’t see him till Monday probably, Jay will be home tomorrow! YAY for traveling! Yay for his thought provoking posts! Yay for our good friend!
see you soon!