don't suppose

I don't suppose when they said don't write everyday and bore people they meant don't write anything for 2 months!!  But when is all said and done, it isn't easy.  Writing, submitting, abandoning, researching all take time and writing a small piece on my blog just got forgotten about.  BUT it's a new year and I shall try to do better.  Now I have entered a few competitions (waiting to hear) joined Wattpad, submitted a few stories and have shelved an idea because I got lost after 25k plus words, but have found another project which like all the others I'm really excited about.  I wonder how long it will take before I give up on this one??
Till next time nanu nanu...

I knew it!

I knew this would happen one day.  I just didn't know how I would react to it!  2 short stories I imagined would make great stories, the plot, the research, the people, the ending all sounded great in my head, but when it came to writing it, well what a lot of tosh is all I can say.  I've added junk folders to my topic folders, that's probably the most constructive thing I've done today.  How do I write for 20minutes or 500 words and tell myself it's a business and I must do it if this happens every time I wrote an idea down?
I guess welcome to 'our world' would be appropriate, you guys, the real witers who do this daily must really struggle at times, I take my hat off to you.  I am going do it!!  :)

Does anyone else feel empty when getting close to the end of a book.  I don't think i'm close but I can see the finishing line and it has left me feeling a little flat.  How do I pick myself up and move on?
But then I come across James Herbert and I've been waiting for Ash for months so i'm all excited again.  Wish I could tell a story the way he does - only better!

This just keeps on getting harder!  I've got a plan and I'm sticking to it but everytime I make a point I have to find a way of making the cross over.  That in itself isn't hard but finding new ways is.  Then I have to remind myself that if it was easy then everybody would be doing it, and write from the heart edit with your head, and if you don't believe it your reader won't and........
I am trying to write 500 words a day, but does editting and re-writing count?  I've tried but sometimes it takes me all day to write 500 words, at least 500 that mean anything and I'm betting by tomorrow it will be reduced to 400 and I'll have to write 600 to catch up....
Anybody else feeling the strain?

time goes by.....

so I haven't blogged for awhile but that is because I, and I would like to say I have been busy writing but, I haven't!  I came to an upexpected crossroads.  I was at a point where quite tamely my story was reaching a conclusion and apart from adding some fancy bits was all over.  The problem was, it was so open to a lot more in the way of sub plots and twists that I had a complete re-think.  Now I have added new chapters in the middle, don't panic they are strategically placed, and created new characters and am enjoying a new lease of research and writing.  I did read a book called 'Born to Run' and what a fascinating read, and not just to help me with my running but other stories that are hiden in there!
Bfn

Having left the writing alone for a while, I'm beginning to see why it's a job.  I get the impression that if read what I have written I'll get back into the feel for the story and then I should be able to write in the same style and with sense of feeling.  I just don't want to loose the enjoyment of writing, especially as I'm enjoying what I'm currently writing.
Later guys

connecting the t's and dotting the i's

I've written and re-written and edited and read until I'm blue in the face, now despite all my research and dare I say enjoyment, I'm stuck, and I don't think this will be the last time I mention it either.  I just have to find a way between the chapters.  Maybe I'll read a little, or play cards whichever is the most useless!!