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Writing

Ok so I have neglected this site for a while, that's what happens when you decide you want your child to experience organized sports, and have him begin to play football. So that was my summer and ultimately garnered my hiatus from blogging on a regular bases(also being a HUGE procrastinator doesn't help either). So football season is finally over..GO BRONCOS and they had a great season.  A winning season. But on to the real drama of my life National Novel Writing Month.

I have known about this website http://www.nanowrimo.org since it first began in 2000. I have made a few attempts to even try to try and write 50k words in no less than 30 days. But alas to my disgrace I became one of their many writing victims andgracefully bowed out before even starting. So this year I planned ahead. I had a brilliant idea for a plot and a main character and I started outlining and writing out scenes. Since that is within the parameter of the rules for the nanowrimo. So I was ready and gunning to go. I told the people that I speak to on a regular basis and told the I would be MIA for the month of November. I informed my husband that the he would need to help wrangling the boys and the dreaded laundry(I HATE WASHING CLOTHES..ok I admitted it. I feel better now) So I was on my way.

So when Novemeber 1 at midnight came I was on the computer typing away. I was so excited and enthralled by the fact that I was going to complete this goal of writing this great story. I was in heaven. I am pretty much behind by like 12k words but hey I'm doing it and I can only be proud off myself that I stuck with this story and made it this far.

I have had some many manuscripts that I have started and havd left incomplete and I am overly excited that I am going to actually strive to do more than 50k. I want to do at least 150k and I am on the road to do that.

I guess my secret in keeping up with the word count is wiritng by hand and then typing, because I seem to add more when I am not just looking at a blank computer screen. It is actually fun, but I feel a little stressed about it all. I am way to hard on myself about where I am as a writer and I think this is helping a long with my many goals that I need to achieve to rech my own personal success. 

So good luck to all my fellow nanowrimoers out there in cyberspace....keep writing!! 

The Renegade Writer: A Totally Unconventional Guide to Freelance Writing Success (The Renegade Write

Linda Formichelli

"I write for the same reason I breathe - 
   because if I didn't, I would die."

 ~ Isaac Asimov

This is a quote that I like. Simple because it conveys exactly how I feel about writing. I love to write. I mean write whatever I feel like writing. A poem, a short story, a personal essay, even writing in my journal. I have always wanted to become a writer. I think that when I went to college, I thought that becoming an English major, would actually teach me everything there is to know about writing. Alas, I was sadly mistaken. However, I learned just what I needed to know. The basic mechanics of writing is essential.

 Whenever I would tell someone that I  my major was English. I would get this look from them and then the most obvious profession from them. "What you want to be a teacher or something?" I would politely shake my hand and tilt it to the side and say, "No, I want to either be a lawyer or writer." I would always get the responds, "Ohhhhhhhhh, well you should be a lawyer, you will make whole bunch of money."

Well I'm sure you can guess by now. I am not an attorney nor am I a teacher. I tried the dealing with the kids and the administration thing for a couple of years and that was not fun for me. So here I am a writer.  A person that churns out words, so that the whole world can see and wonder, where did she get that idea from. How does she write so eloquently. Or I guess that's what I imagine people say about my writings. I think I want what most people want. I want to fulfill my purpose. I want to write. I want to write words that jump up and bite you on the butt. I want to write words that make you think about a different point of view. I want my words to live and breathe.

I want my words to be like Micheal Jordan, original. I want my words to be like Lena Horne, legendary. I want my words to be like Opray Winfrey, "rich" with meaning. I want my words to be like Sydney Poitier, extraordinary. I want my words to be just like my sons, imaginative. I just want my words to be...this is why I write, to express myself with 26 letters that can be moved and interchanged in any way that I want. Its my life and this is what I do...I write.

Why do you write?

What do you want to leave in writing for the next generation?

...Keep writing! 

Writer's desk

"Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose

 - Charles Du Bos, "What Is Literature?"

Who actual decides to take on this monstrosity called "writing " anyway.( I sheepishly raise my hand) I thought to myself as an English major in college that to write was going to be a piece of cake. That my professor would love my use of language. The metaphors, the soliloquies that I so eloquently lay effortlessly on paper. How about I learned the hard way that a red pen, although I LOVE pens was not my friend. I think I cried once I walked out of the class and into the nearest bathroom, after I glanced at the words that were blood red all over my English mid term paper. I was devastated. That professor was not kind at all. I remember her name like it was yesterday, although we will call her Professor Mistaken, because thats what I thought of her. This had to be a mistake.

She was so mistaken( can u say that??!!) to say that my paper based on books that we read, didn't have a strong enough theis statement to support my arguments. How could she tell me that my whole paper was a load of crap, in so many words. I disliked this teacher very much.  However, I learned a very hard lesson from her class. Crtitques of your writing is a way of life. So as a writer I have had to develop a iron resolve to not take literary critique of my work as a bad thing, but as a good thing.

So I have written down my writing goals for 2008. Resonable and feasable goals, goals that I will help me to overcome the fear of putting pen to paper and hoping not to relive the horrible experience of Professor Mistaken. I know that the plans that I make this me(although I have never written down goals for writing before....so this is a first)  very productive and profitable this year. I know that I will be stretched out of my comfort zone, but I am willing to make this happen. Success is calling. So I will be putting stories that I am working on, of course, poetry and other written works on here. I hope this forum will be kind and supporting of my work.(hopefully there is an audience reading this..another one of those fears..no one wants to read what I have to say) So here we go...jumping in with both feet....

...Writing is fundamental.(at least thats what I think!!)