Loving the laptop

I finally got a laptop and it helps....seriously....on days that I would rather be watching TV or in the front room with the kids instead of hiding in the study I can join in and work on the laptop...have worked heaps in the four days that I've got it so maybe a miracle will happen and I will get myself back into the swing of things and get some proper writing done.

Charly...

I've always wanted to write, as simple as that, every since I was a kid and had learnt to read Dr. Suess (The Cat in the Hat was the first book I ever read aged 4) I wanted to write but never had the confidence in myself to be able to do it and in all honesty it's only been in the last 7 years that I have decided that I really need to make my dreams a reality, and only in the last 3 that I have thought about taking it seriously instead of just jotting notes down and half baked attempts. However 12 years ago when going to a playgroup with my eldest daughter an idea for a character popped into my head and I jotted vague notes and plot ideas and characters for the stories and had a basis for the stories but never took them any further.
That character has now matured and grown as I have and I think finally I might be ready to take her out for a whirl and over the next couple of days I want to see what I can do with her(I have my major project but every couple of months I like to take a couple of weeks and dabble with a few other ideas and Charly is one of them so want to play around with her and see what I can come up with....who knows one day that half baked dream might become a reality.....

Writing

Still writing...had a bit of a blank as far as it goes but back on track again....spending a bit of time on my animal stories so having fun with that

Up and down

Some days are worse then others....some days I feel very creative and want to do nothing but write....other days I write a paragraph and then wipe it and start again only to wipe it....oh the joys of being a writer!!!!
The Worrals are going quite well...have about 3 more weeks of writing them before I take a little break so hoping that I have done heaps of work in that time.

Worrals

That is the name of the family I am writing about at the moment...a fantasy for children....which is my main focus writing (I have other projects on the go which I look at over a period of three weeks every two months- my break from my focus writing) It seems to be working well so far and hopefully when I have finished one thing I will be on my way with another....
Any way the Worral story is progressing well...onto Chapter Nine and it seems pretty hopeful so far( my biggest critic my daughter M who loves to read tells me to hurry up and finish the next chapter so she can find out what is going on....she's also told me when she doesn't think things sound right so hopefully she's judging the book fairly and not because I'm her mother :) )
So I really should get on to working instead of spending my time blogging today

Back to writing

I finally had an epiphany when it came to writing that I was trying to write for a market instead of myself. Yes I know the object of writing is to become published but I'll never be published if I try and fit myself into something that I am not...it may take me a hell of a lot longer to get were I want to go because I don't fit myself into any particular framework but I figure in the long run when I am published I'll have more to offer as I write from the heart and not from the need to just be published

Trying to blog again

Hope I can get this to work as I want to get back blogging

WHY BOTHER????

That is what I am asking myself at the moment.....I have wanted to write since I was old enough to hold a pen in my hand and I don't know what it is that is holding me back and stopping me from doing the one thing I have wanted to do all my life(there were three things...travel which I still want to do and have done a lot of to this date....have a family and they are the four most wonderful kids in the world....most of the time :) :) :) and write!!!!) Why is that so difficult? Am I afraid that I'm not going to be as good as I want to be and that it will mean I am a failure? That the only thing I think I am good at will be nothing but disaster and then why was I dreaming that impossible dream all my life?
AHHHHHHHHHHHH........
But that is going to change....I am going to achieve my goal of being published and seeing my name on a book on a bookshelf in a store and I don't care how long it takes me to reach that goal because I am going to reach it!!!!!!!!!!!!

A great day

Did some major plotting today...on sheets of paper all over my living room floor and coffee table and hopefully when I move it onto the computer more things will flow and will be really ready to rock with my writing...can't wait!!!