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Gloria Marlow
Unity Member
Post Number:
1005
Registered: 04-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 28, 2004 - 02:11 pm: |   |
Okay, life has definitely gotten in the way of my writing life and I'm tired of it. I assume everyone has different ways they write. Some people may be able to stop at night and pick up at the same spot the next day, etc. I can't. I've been trying for two years now. That was the last time I actually finished a book. I finished putting Shades of Silence together in January, but the idea and the actual writing of it had been done for over a year.
When I wrote Flowers for Megan, my husband and kids were so good. They just let me write. I'd stop every once in a while to cook or clean or something, but my mind was just filled with the book for weeks while I wrote it. Same with The Butterfly Game.
I have this wonderful story in my head right now. It's been there for several months, but I can't get going because I know that when I do I won't sleep, etc. until it's done and the world has just crowded into my writing life until I can't even write anymore. It isn't that I'm so busy I don't have a few minutes a day or anything, it's just that I need several weeks to do nothing but write and breathe. I need to be a hermit.
So, that's my whine for today.
Gloria |
Bill Nelson
Wandering Member
Post Number:
221
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 28, 2004 - 03:38 pm: | |
Gloria,
This is not a problem.
Get rid of the family!!
Bill |
Perry Comer
Unity Member
Post Number:
1414
Registered: 04-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 28, 2004 - 04:13 pm: | |
Gloria
when you find that place, let me know, I need to go there
LOL, not that I want to run away with you, I just need a place to get away from the world to write.
Would it be great to have a place to run to for six weeks - free - just to write and someone would paid the bills and do all the chores?
http://www.pacwriter.netfirms.com/ |
Nancy Marie
Unity Member
Post Number:
1788
Registered: 08-2001
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 28, 2004 - 06:49 pm: | |
That would be wonderful. As it is I get up an extra hour early, most mornings, so that I can write. I am enjoying writing "Dragon Tears" so much that getting up early isn't that hard.
blessings, Kitty |
Joyce Scarbrough
Wandering Member
Post Number:
151
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 28, 2004 - 07:48 pm: | |
I'm the same way, Gloria. Lee Ann and I have even talked about running away to a cabin in the woods (with electricity for the computer, of course) so we can get our screenplay written without interruption.
In the acknowledgments of True Blue Forever, I thank my husband and kids for going without clean clothes and food while I was writing it. The thing is, they really did. 
Toyce
True Blue Forever
Read the first chapter at http://www.authorsden.com/joycelscarbrough1
See the hunk at http://www.southernbelleauthor.com/joycepersonalpage
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Harry Simenon
Wandering Member
Post Number:
197
Registered: 10-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 01:51 pm: | |
It isn’t so much time that is my problem.
I got myself a new job as I was about to get kicked out, (with all my colleagues)
It is more interesting, but on the other hand it means spending more time behind a computer. So when I come home I don’t always feel like writing anymore. Maybe I should return to pen and paper?
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Trina Green
Hunger Member
Post Number:
79
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 12:01 am: | |
I write in spurts. Somedays the words flow, other days I'm blocked. I attribute it to my past job. I was so stressed that for a long time I lost my creativity. It's coming back slowly, but I'm happy for the good days. |
Harry Simenon
Wandering Member
Post Number:
202
Registered: 10-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 02:07 pm: | |
What kind of job caused that Trina? (I want to know everything…) |
Gloria Marlow
Unity Member
Post Number:
1010
Registered: 04-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 02:18 pm: | |
You didn't happen to be a secretary/legal assistant/receptionist/bookkeeper/officemanager to four attorneys did you?
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Trina Green
Hunger Member
Post Number:
81
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 06:51 pm: | |
law enforcement, 20 years. I couldn't take it anymore. |
Dennis Collins
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
1143
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 25, 2004 - 12:13 pm: | |
Sorry about the hijack but I was looking for the thread on Echelon Press. I want to gather all the information I can find on this publisher |
Jennifer Lynn
Unity Member
Post Number:
1547
Registered: 03-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 25, 2004 - 06:34 pm: | |
Email me Dennis. I'm published with Echelon.
Jenn
Jennifer Lynn
www.jenniferlynn.ca |
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