Writing Quotes

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.  ~Anaïs Nin

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.  ~Ray Bradbury

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.  ~Sinclair Lewis

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The best style is the style you don't notice.  ~Somerset Maugham

I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket. ~Ernest Hemingway

New Banners

I'm writing and creating some new banners today

Here's a sneak peak...

Just a reminder...

The Dragon's Vamp is releasing in JULY

YAY!! 

Have a great day all!!!!

C~

The Writing Space

 So, here I am in my nice new house with my own office for "me" to make into my writing space, and I can't get comfortable in it.

How in the heck does that work?? 

Maybe it's just me, after all I'm not used to having my own area. I'm used to being in the middle of things, in the living room or at the kitchen table with my net book, and now, I'm not.

Think I'm lonely?? Don't know how that could be, the dog sits behind me in my chair, I have to kick the teenager off his games, and while I'm open to the rest of the house, I'm just not directly in the midst of everything anymore. Hmmmmm. 

Maybe it's because I have a smaller desk and I haven't really unpacked ;-p  hmmmm, could be. My awesome other half of a man did hang my curtains and drapes for me though :-) (Sexy watching ;-) which makes it look and feel a whole lot cozier. Yeah, Yeah, hey give me a paint brush and I'll paint a room any day, give me curtain rods and they end up flying across the room at wrap speed, LOL.

I've looked online for ideas on how to decorate, but nothing has really popped out at me. :-(

I think I'll just have to go buy myself a nice big L-shaped desk and some better storage cabinets and go from there. 

Hope everyone has a fantastic Sunday!! Read lots!!!!

C~  


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Writing Exercises

Does anyone do writing exercises to keep the mind focused on writing so you don't get writers block?

Or have you had writers block and tried them? Did they work?

I look at the ones in my Writers Digest magazine and think yeah OK, and just flip the page. Both when I was having the "block" and not. I know they help a lot of writers, but it doesn't work that way for me. I have to be in the right emotional state of mind, the right "time" shall we say. I just can't sit down after working all day and expect something to come to me, the day job needs to disappear and the mind needs to be in a 'relaxed' state, and of course I need the plot ticking away within my skull.

As long as the ideas of a story come to me, I'm usually all set. I mentioned in a previous blog, that one hit while I was driving and that was in no way a good thing. LOL.
But I have noticed that if I am in a writers block, and the "exercises" bore me, I just have to sit back, relax and let the mind go blank. Eventually something within eye sight or hearing range will spark the writing idea, whether it's 10 minutes, 10 days or ten weeks. Which by then can become frustrating, yet if i try to "push" it, *eyes rolling up* yeah, that doesn't work to well.

I am however thinking about going to visit my local RWA Chapter. Being a solitary writer can be lonely sometimes and it's good to mix it up with others who share your passion for your craft, that can advise, critique and smile at you.

So on that note...I hope everyone has a great day and a better week ahead!!

C~