magick musings…

Stole this from Mik

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Your Superhero Name is The Laser Nova Your Superpower is Shape Shifter Your Weakness is Men Your Weapon is Your Plasma Ring Your Mode of Transportation is Capsule

I actually did do my writing yesterday just not on my WIP. Took out an old short story I haven’t worked on in over a year and played with it a bit. I have that Christmas short that I need to finish. Also, have some characterization ideas for my WIP. I am not as fast or prolific as my friends Mik or Dennie or able to balance my career and family as well as Colin does, but I will get better with time.

This writing every day thing keeps the juices flowing. Who knew?

Given the opportunity, a writer will fiddle with a piece of writing forever.
~Paul Raymond Martin, ‘Writer’s Little Instruction Book

Nobody I know does that! 😳

…”Writing is a matter of desire, not discipline. If you want to write, that’s what you’ll do. If you want to write, you’ll rearrange the circumstances of your life to make it possible. If you want to write, you can’t not write” Paul Raymond Martin~Writer’s Little Instruction Book

So many of my writer’s friends say that not to write is not to breathe. So many times I let that passion die while I am off doing other things instead of sitting at the computer and writing. I think about it, I plot it, I worry about it, but do not regularly write. If you do something for 14 days in a row, I hear it becomes a habit. I am going to sit at my computer and write for 14 days in a row. I have put that in print, so now I have made it a goal. Let’s see in two weeks if I have developed my ‘writing muscles’.

Yesterday, one of the doctors told me she wished she could be a writer. That the idea of just staying home all day and create and make lots of money would be fun. And so much easier. If she had the time.

No, I didn’t slap her. She is actually one of my favorites to work for. And I didn’t tell her that I would love to be a doctor – when I had the time.

I did reply nicely that, as I was there at work and not home writing, it was just a wee bit more difficult than it would seem and according to a report in the RWR, our national organization’s monthly report, not everyone who writes will make a living at writing – much less a living comparable to a doctor’s salary.

She just looked at me. Maybe she detected a slight sarcasm. Who knows.

Today was an awesome day! Two good friends from my writers group and I went to the Omni Imax theater and saw Mysteries of the Nile. Very interesting and exciting. Sort of like white water rapids meet King Tut. I would have loved to make the trip down the Nile with the crew in the movie. But only if there were showers and port-a-potties at the end of the day. The scenery was beautiful. And at times you really felt you were there on the inflatable boats braving the rapids, the heat, the crocodiles, the fabulous yet vicious waterfalls. Mik found the website for me here after we got home and will check it out.

Then had dinner with my DH and two good friends at a great Bar B Que place not far from here. Texas is known for its ribs, beef, and pork and this was terrific. The hot bread was to die for. And the dessert! OMG! Chocolate cake with two kinds of cheesecake interspersed between the cake layers followed by a dark chocolate frosting. My weight watcher point allotment is shot for the month!

I count my blessings every day for friends, family, more than enough food to eat and a warm bed to sleep in every night. My prayers to those who are suffering the pain and loss from Hurricane Katrina.

If you wait for inspiration, it may only come every fifteen years, even if it is prize winning inspiration. Better to adopt the mantra favored by most working writers: butt-in-chair, hands-on-keyboard.
~Paul Raymond Martin, ‘Writer’s Little Instruction Book’

‘The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.’
~Eleonore Roosevelt

That particular quote runs along the edges of a picture frame which I have framed the words “Sandy Jones, Published Author”.

It is my dream to be published. And one day I will be.

No matter what your dream is, hold on to it tightly. On some days when it seems to be as far away as the heavens, remember that ‘stars burn brighter in the darkest nights’.

It’s yours. Don’t let anyone take it away from you.

Well, I’ve done it again! For the umpteemth time, I have rewritten the prologue on my WIP. My wonderful friends with my writer group made me promise I would leave it alone and move forward. But I couldn’t help myself. I was not happy with it. And yesterday, while I was getting my nails done, I realized that it started in the wrong place. Then it hit me between the eyes exactly where it should begin. It was all I could do not to jump up with my nails half done 😯 and fly home to begin. Last night I wrote most of it and now tonight I will finish it. And promise not to rewrite it – ever again – if you promise not to tell on me :sealed: