This week's page count: 0 (oh, ouchy, that hurt to type).
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Once upon at time in the Fall of 2004, there was a mom of two weefolk who thought she had what it took to start an amazing website dedicated to helping writing mommies.
Then she found out that she'd be moving again (for the fifth time) and decided to pack her little dream up in a cardboard box until things settled down a bit.
Things settled quite nicely, and this mom of two weefolk decided it would be fun to finally start building that website.
Then she got knocked up again and spent the next three months hunched over the sink, the toilet, or the plastic bags she kept hidden on her person whenever she ventured into public.
While baby #3 gestated along in this uber-tired mom's belly, it became clear that a career change would be necessary for her darling Knute. Baby #3 arrived, the new house went For Sale, and this very, very tired mom decided to keep her toes out of the Internet pool for a while longer.
Finally, move #6 accomplished, this mom of three weefolk started a blog in October of 2007 on Wordpress (it's all Em's fault -- kidding, Em!). She was pretty clueless (and is only less so now) about how to write a blog; she spent a good portion of her early posts running her mouth for far too long (she still does).
There were a few good early posts, ones that she goes back to read now and again as reminders. Like this one:
It helps her to remember, you see, that she needs to Get Over Herself, too.
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I finished ZERO (I'm wincing as I type that, just so you know) pages on my novel this week because I found myself at that crippling place we writers know so well - the intersection of It's Not Good Enough and I'm Not Good Enough.
This is what happens when you convince yourself that you have to write the One book of your lifetime on your first try.
I was definitely in a funk this week and that, along with the end-of-summer exhaustion of keeping three kids out of major trouble, kept me from even trying.
What will happen this week? I don't know. I may keep pushing on the novel I started or I may table it and go back to the novel I started and left idling after Nanowrimo 2007. It was fluffier and funnier (IMHO) -- surely not the stuff of greatness, right?
I will, however, keep trying, because quitting is not an option.
I'm out of wise words tonight, so I'll leave you with this quote I happened across while searching for Mass times at my MIL's church; it's been ringing in my ears all week.
"If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world ablaze."
- Saint Catherine of Sienna
There's definitely a reason so many bloggers are taking breaks as summer winds down. And whether the kids are going back to school or not, there's just something about the last days of summer that makes it hard to get serious about indoor projects, I think.
ReplyDeleteI tried some "artistic" writing this week on my blog, with my Divorce Index, and I was really happy with how it turned out writing-wise, but it was too personal, so I need to figure out how/where to write the things that I feel so deeply. Maybe a fiction book with an almost-recognizable villain?