It’s been a very
busy week especially as we have gotten further into the holiday
season. If you missed my post last week about writing around holiday
busy-ness, you can take a look at it here. Hopefully
some of those ideas I’ve put into practice will work for you other
writers out there too. Still, my writing’s come to a slow-down
because I’ve had a load of other things to do, yet I continue to
work on my stories and that is most important: to write everyday even
when you don’t feel like it. If you only do it when you feel like
it, then you’ll never feel like it. Or, to put it more precisely,
the days when you don’t feel like writing will out-number the ones
when you do and so you will always come up with an excuse not to
write.
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I’ve been
continuing to work on my novella averaging at least a page a day
considering my full-time day job, and I try to get one to three extra
pages in on the weekends. Plus I’ve been giving a little time to my
current short story in which I’m developing the character
interaction and working the characterization into the story. The
photographic cover for “Circa Sixty Years” has been the slowest
project in the last three weeks since it’s not actual writing but
the marketing side of it and I’m first and foremost a writer. So
I’ve been concentrating more on producing the stories themselves. I
was hoping to have the photographic cover edition out by now for the
holiday rush, but it may not happen until after the new year. If I
get it done before the holidays I’ll definitely announce it here
and at my Facebook page. So far I’ve gathered stock photos for it,
but I still have to look for some more before I start cropping and
pasting.
But this weekend was
so busy with the Christmas shopping, decorating and visiting family I rarely see that I didn’t even get to see Arrival like I wanted too. I’m
planning to see it this week sometime and hopefully read the short
story it’s based on so I can have a review of both for you here
next time. We’lll see.
Does the holiday
season inspire you to write more or does it hinder you in your
writing?
Until next time . .
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