'Tis the witching hour...
...and I'm still awake. Fancy that...
Gosh, it has been a thousand years since I have posted. Okay, I'm exaggerating a tad. Although I AM glad to be on LJ again, I'm even more delighted to be WRITING again.
Yes, the old writer's block has vanished. Poof! Zip! Zing! Like a roach at the click of a light switch, like a kid after the sound of glass breaking, like a...well, you get it anyway. It's gone and I'm still here and I'm WRITING again. FINALLY! (Thanks be to God...Amen and Amen.)
I have spent the last several weeks re-reading all of my old pieces and trying to decide which one I'm going to work on first, which wasn't an easy feat since they were all beckoning to me like neglected lovers.
Hmmm. Shall I begin with my completely new novel idea? Or how about the screenplay I finished over 4 years ago? It could use a good rewrite or two before I finally ship it out. And what about that short story that intrigued my critique group but that I never finished? Or what about my neosouthern gothic novel? I was quite a few chapters into that one before my muse went into its coma. Hmmm.
Well, I pondered and I pondered and read and read and printed and shifted and sorted, and finally determined that the loudest screams (for the moment) were coming from my screenplay.
In just a scant 2 weeks I've completed another rewrite and I've started on a good brush up, which I will submit to my critique group in a few weeks.
After that, who the hell knows? Not that it matters anyway. The most important thing to me is that I'm giddy over my craft again, which was the only reason I started writing in the first place.
Thanks to all of you who had faith in me during my drought!
Reese
Gosh, it has been a thousand years since I have posted. Okay, I'm exaggerating a tad. Although I AM glad to be on LJ again, I'm even more delighted to be WRITING again.
Yes, the old writer's block has vanished. Poof! Zip! Zing! Like a roach at the click of a light switch, like a kid after the sound of glass breaking, like a...well, you get it anyway. It's gone and I'm still here and I'm WRITING again. FINALLY! (Thanks be to God...Amen and Amen.)
I have spent the last several weeks re-reading all of my old pieces and trying to decide which one I'm going to work on first, which wasn't an easy feat since they were all beckoning to me like neglected lovers.
Hmmm. Shall I begin with my completely new novel idea? Or how about the screenplay I finished over 4 years ago? It could use a good rewrite or two before I finally ship it out. And what about that short story that intrigued my critique group but that I never finished? Or what about my neosouthern gothic novel? I was quite a few chapters into that one before my muse went into its coma. Hmmm.
Well, I pondered and I pondered and read and read and printed and shifted and sorted, and finally determined that the loudest screams (for the moment) were coming from my screenplay.
In just a scant 2 weeks I've completed another rewrite and I've started on a good brush up, which I will submit to my critique group in a few weeks.
After that, who the hell knows? Not that it matters anyway. The most important thing to me is that I'm giddy over my craft again, which was the only reason I started writing in the first place.
Thanks to all of you who had faith in me during my drought!
Reese