Still Not Writing

Who am I kidding? Certainly not anybody who might be reading this blog. And certainly not myself. I want to write; I really do. But there is stuff going on in my life right now (which I cannot blog about) that seems to be keeping me from doing the writing that would most help me to cope with what is happening in my life right now. How's that for convoluted?

I am joining a writing group, and though I have missed the first two scheduled get-togethers, I WILL attend the next one. Come he** or high water. To digress -- for some reason I like that phrase, but I don't know why. :)

BREAKING NEWS: We added two new members to our family; two little, short-haired, tabby male kittens from the same litter. One is very exploratory while the other is somewhat more timid. The funny thing is, though, the more exploratory one (I'm calling him "Rascal" for the time being) is much more aggressive when it comes to wrestling with his brother (I'm calling him "Velcro"), but when they finally decided they were hungry, Velcro was very possessive of his food and wouldn't let Rascal eat anything; we had to get Rascal his own separate dish so that he could eat. They are ADORABLE! I'll try to post photos when I have some available...

Unintentional Hiatus

Wow! The further I get from posting, the harder it seems to be for me to get back to the site to generate a new post. And unfortunately I don't really have much to say, except that I am working at being happier and healthier.

I still try to read the blogs on my blogroll pretty regularly, though right now that is probably about once every two weeks. And look, I've added a new blog. It's Craftastic World (http://craftasticworld.blogspot.com/), and it is so much fun! I have to admit, I know that blogger personally, and I am honored to have been the co-recipient of one of her fairy doors, and the parent of three additional recipients. Thanks so much, Craftastic! Each one of the doors is greatly treasured!

Oh, and I forgot to tell the world: I did manage to craft a 50,000+ word novel during NaNoWriMo 2008; if I can remember how to do it, I'll add my 2008 Winner award to this page ... but no promises. :)

I do, however, promise to try to be more responsible in posting here. I know that I joined "Blog Guilt Free" and so I don't have to blog for anyone but myself, but I think I need to make this promise to myself, too, or I'll just forget to write, and that is NOT a good thing for me.

Anticipation, Tribulation, Jubilation (almost)

Well, it is November again, and you know what that means ... NaNoWriMo has begun! That's right, it is once again National Novel Writing Month, and I am competing again. My post title refers to the predominant feelings I have had regarding NaNoWriMo this year.

First, ANTICIPATION! I have been anticipating this month for nearly 10 months. Why? Because now I have an excuse to write, write, write up a storm, and I probably won't hear too much grief about how much time I am spending on the laptop.

Unfortunately, anticipation made way for TRIBULATION when the month started and I still didn't have a plot, characters, anything even remotely creative to throw on paper. So what did I do? I started two ... that's right, two ... different stories on November 1st. I started with one story, switched to another and wrote over 2200 words in that vein, and then returned to the original. I am considering the other story to be written another time, but for this month it was a good way to get the creative juices flowing and at least some words on paper.

Now, I am feeling some JUBILATION (almost). The almost is because I have managed to write over 7K words on my original story, but I'm afraid that I won't be able to stretch it out into 50,000 words. However, I know that if I am going to do anything this month, I can't allow myself to fall into questioning when I am doing ... this is the month to push my doubts away and just write furiously. It has been too long since I allowed myself to just create without worrying that it was worth it, and it feels good to get to that point again.