Is it or is it not funny how many things we can find to distract us and how many excuses we can come up with for NOT writing? If writing were my 'real' job, they'd have fired me a thousand times by now. The thing is - I DO want writing to be my real job. So why don't I just do it? Excuses, Excuses.. fear, fear, fear. If I really want it, why do all the little things and all the voices that say, 'you can't' get in the way. I'd imagine it's because I'm just as human as anyone else and the fear and just plain being busy with life are huge things that can so easily get in our way.
I've also been thinking I'd wait and see a little what happened with the SYTYCW entry that I sent in. Still a little over two weeks until the winner will be notified and part of me has been trying not to think about it - while the other part of me has been putting writing something new on hold hoping for some huge, wonderful thing to come from it.
Maybe instead, I should be working on writing so I have other options. THAT would be the smart thing to do.
I did hear back from an editor about the story I'd had in the New Voices contest. I was invited to think up another idea and send in the first 3 chapters and synopsis on that. My brain has been stalled though. I'm just now finally starting to wrap my mind around a character and story idea - and I'm trying desperately not to convolute it and turn this plot into a big mess. That seems to be my biggest problem in my writing.
So off to work on that today. I'm going to flesh my characters out a bit and see what I can come up with. Hope everyone else out there is enjoying their day!
