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Today I dropped Darling Daughter off at school.  She's been going to the community college since the Fall, but this was the first time I actually saw her on campus - you know - being a college student - walking around with all those other college students.

I never pictured her as a "college student", yet there she was, trekking across campus to the ( Read more... )

I have been preoccupied and therefore absent from LJ lately.  Not that it's such a big deal that I haven't posted (I am acutely aware that the world can survive without my brilliant navel-gazings), but I'm sorry I haven't been commenting on your posts.  I read snatches
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The isolated writer is an iconic image...just think of Emma Thompson in Stranger Than Fiction (which depicts all writerly angst quite well) sitting in that big, empty, stark apartment waiting for inspiration.  I often muse why writers have to be so isolated, and I know my family certainly wonders, too.  Does the general public understand the writer ( Read more... )

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I'm a POV flip/flopper.  When I'm starting a project (and often when I'm well into it, and at least once after I finished one) I have this little battle in my head about what POV to use.  I go back and forth on the pros and cons of first and third.  Which would make my story stronger, lend to the voice I'm trying to create, and, of course, have the ( Read more... )

Huh.

Who'da thunk I'd ever say I need to watch more T.V.?  The realisation hit me yesterday.  After some feedback, I'd been trying to flesh out a young male character in one of my stories.  I tried to imagine who I wanted to base him on, but none of the oh, three or so, early-twenties guys I know would work.  I racked my brain trying to conjure any ( Read more... )

Gahhh - Law and Order's got me - and I can't tear  myself away.   I've always loved Lenny.  I wish he could have been my dad ( Read more... )

This whole writing business takes TIIIIIIIIIIME!

Okay, I already knew that, it just hit me again today.  I literally spent the whole day (minus workout and shower) getting a package together for a conference registration and critique submission that I learned this morning was due today.  Hours of tweaking a several page synopsis into an outline ( ( Read more... )

I've had a mild nagging (only mild, mind you) feeling that I should be writing.  Now.  I'm still in that mode: "Okay, kids are in school, laundry started, groceries shopped, I can get two hours in if I skip lunch - Go!"  However, I've found it's really beneficial for me to step back after finishing a WIP (phew) and not angst about getting writing ( Read more... )