Sometimes, when I'm doing other things, I'm aware of the seething emotions and vibrant colors of an entire kingdom that lives somewhere between the strata of my conscious and subconscious minds ( Read more... )

I tend to feel a little let down at the end of a first draft, because it feels like the whole thing was waaaaay too easy.

Need to remind myself that REVISIONS bring TEARS and GRUNTS, and it's okay to be a happy first-drafter, 'cause lord knows, I suffer enough on the rewrites.

I meant to write today. Today was going to be the writing day. But by the time I sat down to do this thing, it was noon, and by the time I actually opened a file, the doorbell rang and I had to go talk to a neighbor today about our blue spruce trees they're going to cut down. (The property line runs right through the trunks, so they're just as ( Read more... )