“Friendship is like peeing on yourself. Everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings ( Read more... )

I have allowed myself to get tangled up in the combination of uncertainty and too many ideas. A dark, meddlesome and restrictive hold it has on me and my WIP. And I swear I cut the roots off the last evil vine that crept into my haven Under the Steps. Hell, I even sprayed weed killer. Buuuuuut, I digress ( Read more... )

I think I speak for most fiction writers when I say we write what we know. Even when we think we’re writing/thinking outside our mental box, we’re really just borrowing something we have already absorbed from the world around us and now see with different eyes. Living does that. Life demands it ( Read more... )

When was the first time YOU called yourself a writer? And now that you do, what do you tell all the dear Aunt Ida’s you only have to see at funerals, weddings and reunions, the long lost friends and the manager down at the Circle K when they ask “What do you do?” or “I heard your writing a book? Really ( Read more... )

When does 'filling the well' i.e. looking for those bits of muse to feed your WIP, stop being useful and just becomes an excuse to procrastinate? Good one huh. Hit something haven’t I? Maybe I am just talking to my self--maybe? But I swear I can feel other pulse points quickening through my screen en masse, hear them thinking "My god, she has ( Read more... )

I don't think I truly understood my self so well till I believed I was a writer. Published or not, I have the mindset, good and bad. And I have found some rather profound irony in the 'good and bad' aspect of a writers life and a non-writer's. (I'm getting to the Muse diet. Bear with me ( Read more... )

So where is your 'Under the Steps'? Where do you pound away at your WIP, drink your coffee and dream ( Read more... )

Hello folks. Welcome back under the steps. Sorry if it's a bit messy under here right now, but the proprietress has had a bit of a time these last several days and hasn't had the mental fortitude to chase out the cobwebs. On a side note, I may knit a lovely sweater from those cobwebs one day, thank you very much ( Read more... )

I feel my story now ( Read more... )

learningtoread fan fic challenged me to write a short one shot using my OC Logan(a empath/telepath among other things) from my WIP, who takes the only available seat at a bar--next to 'FRINGE'(on FOX) Peter Bishop. They're both waiting for people who never show. I did it. And then she challenged me to write the same scene and just change it somehow. And I ( Read more... )