A Writing Meme of Sorts

[anghara]

A Writing Meme from Dave Moles (you can read his blog here - Ten Things I Don't Know About Writing.

Go read, but in the interests of being helpful, here's what the original Moles Ten Things were:

1. How to describe with all five senses

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[anghara]

Yes, I'm happy with my life - but NOBODY is ever completely happy. Writing about my everyday life would REALLY bore everyone to tears. My major problem right now is a shoulder that goes out of whack every so often and then I have to spend three or four days in pain and mollycoddling it - but that's hardly the stuff of great literature. Of my own life, the part where something could have been written about would have been the couple of months that began, as it happens, with THIS day four years ago - when rdeck had his stroke, and my life crumbled around me, however briefly.

Other than that, I'm perfectly happy ... other than when I"m worrying about money, or how well my books are selling, or whether I"ll have the kind of career that makes my existence possible at all (I write full time, remember - no publication, no income...) - happiness doesn't equal completely smooth sailing, and in order to get a story out of my happy life I'd have to focus on the problems. To give it texture. Happiness is wonderful in real life but it's awfully bland in fiction. WHo was it that said that all happy families are alike but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way...?