WMWW: One Page

This week's topic: One Page.

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Well, fine mommyfolk, I had plans of sharing so much more today with you about my latest writing endeavor. This was to be a very clever post.

However, I've spent far too long this evening squinting at my computer screen as I created this nifty button:

And once it was done, I realized two things:

1. The text is still terribly blurry and while I'll squint myself silly, I don't think my readers need to get a headache while visiting my blogjoint; and,

2. Horrors! It clashes with my current blog design's color scheme!

Since I am a slave to the color wheel, this will be the one and only time you'll see this version of this button here at W-M. Other versions may arrive later after I spend some time with a cool cloth on my eyes.

Back to topic: One Page.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about blogging vs. writing over the last several weeks. I recently announced the imminent shut down of my other blog and have stopped posting there while I try to figure out what, if anything, I want to do to preserve the best content from that blog.

It's been a relief to just have one blog to maintain and update, especially since this blog is personal and therefore doesn't require loads of new content daily.

I spent a few days this past holiday weekend away from blogging altogether - another bit of respite for my weary fingers and mind. Is it just me, or does clicking around the Internet make anyone else feel like they've caught a case of hyperlink-induced ADD?

I hope it's just me; you fine mommyfolk are way too busy multi-tasking to have neurons misfiring all over the place at warp speed, too.

Despite the creeps and freaks online, I love the Internet . How did I live without Google? My most recent search: slime eels - Knute and I just had to know why they were trawling for them on Dirty Jobs last night; believe me, some things are better not known. Just promise me you'll pass over the Hagfish on the sushi platter next time, m'kay?

Even though I've been online since college (and please, don't ask me to count all the years between then and now), it took me a long time to take the leap into blogging.

Writing this blog has forced me to remember how important it is to consider the audience for whom I write, given my friends and family a way to touch base with my busy life, and opened up the linkage for me to stumble into some fine mommyfolk blogs along the way.

But blogging isn't it for me as a writer. It's a fine fix for those writing-jitters - kinda like that first jolt of java in the morning - but blogging will never be enough to feed my writing beast.

It's big, and it's hungry.

So I've found my way back to my novel writing aspirations.

I've started and stopped more books than I can count on two hands. Writing books - heck, one book - has always been IT for me as a writer, something I finally allowed myself to admit (quietly, to myself, and to Knute who has always believed in my way with words) when I changed majors in college from Zoology/Pre-Med (oh yes I was) to English in my junior year.

That none of those books have come to fruition (yet) gets to me if I let the doubts trickle beneath the door; since I'm one of those Type-A folks, the drive to do it all, and to do it all now despite 6 moves across 5 states in 11 years along with 3 children in less than 4.5 years only serves to set me up for perpetual frustration.

This time, I'm giving myself a break and admitting that no amount of can do! attitude can trump my current reality as a mommyfolk to three.

I'm letting go of the word counts and page counts, the plot maps and character sketches. I've shelved my Writer's Market and I'm trying not to think about how I might ultimately package and sell the story.

Instead, I'm simply writing the story, one page at a time. One page every day, Monday through Friday, and if I miss a day (like tonight), I'm reassuring myself that the world won't collapse inward.

The story will still be there.

And so will I.

One page at a time.

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If you'd like see a color-wheel approved button for One Page on this blog, complete with one of those nifty code boxes for you to grab it for your own blog, drop a comment and tell me what you think!

And, if you'd like to see One Page replace W-M Writing Wednesday, shout out about that, too. I can drop a Mr. Linky box at the bottom so that we could all encourage each other in our writing pursuits while indulging in a little shameless bloggy promotion.

Chit chat about it below!