…the writing life…

Commitment, The Number 8, and Einstein’s Theory of Relativity…

A novel, the first draft of which I wrote 8 years ago, has come together.

Wow!

It hit me like a ton of bricks. I’m so excited and obsessed with this revision, like with none other.

It’s such a wonderful feeling to have something that you’ve been holding, and for such a long time, on which you’ve worked so hard, and then realizing it just wasn’t right, you laid aside.

I logged 6 revisions during this time. Yet always at the end, the pieces didn’t fit. I had yet to display my best work on this story.

Sometimes the universe delivers us the idea for a creation for which, despite our fervor and commitment to carrying out, we lack the skills to bring the creation into greatest illumination.

And so we wait.

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E-mails, Twitter, Dyslexia…

Today was one of those days. I sat down to my computer, opened one my four e-mails, and had to attend to business.

What I mean by attending to business is responding to e-mail inquiries, requests for me to do guest blogs, and answering acceptances from writers and authors whom I have invited to host on my my blog talk radio show, Book Talk, Creativity and Family Matters.

All good stuff. But it takes time.

The life of the 21st century writer.

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Reading Goals, Anne Perry, and What Sits at the Heart of Every Story…

My reading goals for this year are to read and study as many as possible of the novels in mystery writer, Anne Perry‘s, William Monk series. After reading, “The Face of a Stranger” I have become totally engrossed in not only Monk’s struggle to regain his memory as he works to solve murders that take

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The Quiet That Descended…

A quiet descended somewhere between the last hours of Christmas Eve and 12 am Christmas morn. My husband with two of our children was away at midnight Mass.

Our middle had been home with me preparing the early Christmas meal. We always eat our Christmas meal in the wee hours of the morn after the return from Christmas Mass.

With the dressing baking in the stove and the meat and vegetables simmering I sat down to take a breather.

And then I heard the silence.

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Stories, Technology, and Loving Husbands…

For Christmas my husband gave me the Mac Version of Dictate. Data is a program that allows you to type on your computer through voice activation.

In short, you speak into the receiver and the computer types what you say. He tells me that the program has to become familiar with our voice, which requires little, if any time.

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