I seem to be the world's worst at keeping up with this blogging thing. Someone's gotta do, right? SO...I'm editing this summer. AND I'm finishing the synopsis so I can at least send it out to some people. I can't just sit around and think about it anymore. I'm trying to make sure I motivate myself, keep myself busy and stay the course. It's hard. You get into a routine and it's very difficult to break. Since I started school I haven't paid much attention to my writing past what the next paper was going to be about. Of course, there's been some personal issues that have demanded my full and undivided attention...and sometimes they still do, but I'm trying to learn to juggle.
I haven't read many good books lately, either. I'm finishing the last George RR Martin book, A Dance With Dragons. Slowly, but surely, since reading time is reduced to my lunch break at work. Once I'm home, I'm kind of consumed with the family and the house and anything else that demands I PAY ATTENTION! I have a shelf full of potential reads that I've been picking up with good intentions and I've told myself I am not allowed to buy more until I can at least make a dent in that! Do you know how hard it is to turn your back on a wonderful book that you've heard is the most inspiring story of this century?! Damn hard, I tell you!
I heard about my friends devoting their days to their writing, seeming to accomplish so much with dedication and I beat myself up. Get with it! Put your butt in the chair and write! It sounds so simple. I have asked several people to police me; to poke me and prod me out of my funk but that hasn't worked. So far. I keep telling my husband that I intend to finishe the edits and get the book ready to submit and he nods and smiles and says, "How great!" I'll find the motivation, I'm sure. I need to surround myself with more writers - something which I have missed greatly since starting school. Student writers just aren't the same as being in the thick of a group of hard-core, dedicated, blood & sweat - type serious writers! I miss it and my muse misses it.
