I doubt I can come up with anything more interesting to blog about today, but I want to talk about my writing progress. If you want to read great commentary on Sarah’s speech, though, look here and here and here.
My writing is settling into a nice rhythm. I’ve got several projects going (oh dear) but I like it that way and I think I want it that way. I’m taking a class on scene and structure this month from a romance novelist (oh dear again) but she’s really good. I am NOT writing romance, but every women’s novel these days has romance, so I think I’m in good hands.
I have been trying to get up at 5 am every morning to write. Um, that doesn’t happen a lot. I then try to stay up until 2 am to write, which also doesn’t work. I am a morning person first and foremost though, so the 5 am thing will just have to happen. I am inching my way down to that ungodly hour about nine minutes at a time. Hahahaha.
Anyway, the writing is slowly becoming something I can work with. I think as I come down off the heavy-duty copyediting schedules from this summer, it will get better and better.
My rules for summer 2009:
1. The beach (Dash Point and Alki) every day, at least for an hour. Nothing soothes me more than my beach time.
2. Summer rush on textbook production does not have to include me all the time. I can let some of these projects go.
3. Summer is for writing, not for checking commas or alpha ordering ref lists. Nuff said.
4. Hot weather makes me want to not work. I’d rather lie in our hammock and look at tree leaves.
5. I am so much more inclined to be industrious in the fall. Lesson learned.
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