For any regular visitors, it may seem as if there is a dearth of writing-related posts on this blog. There’s a good reason for that. It’s because there is a dearth of writing going on in my life.
Believe me, I have the best intentions. I told my husband I wanted scheduled, dedicated time to write this weekend, but then Saturday I had a disruptive sinus headache, and today, even a chunk of thirty minutes just never materialized. I’m not one of those people who can just write in two-minute spurts. I need to ‘get my head in the game’, so to speak. I need that transition time between the real world and my imaginary world. So I need that chunk. Well, I’m not getting it!
However…I have put those little ‘spurt minutes’ to good use. I bought Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and have started reading that nifty little handbook. And the illustrious Jennifer Crusie has started blogging again! Her post on Narrative Cartography was, I thought, inspired. It was another way to look at your WIP during revisions (where I am stalled out now) to try to weave and mesh and braid everything together. I have to say, Jenny never disappoints–I take something from every little snippet, every little quote, every article she puts out there. So when’s she’s talking, I pay attention.
Hopefully, tomorrow I’ll get my chunk.
