Category Archives: Writing
Keep your eyes on your goals
Posted by doggonedmysteries
Even though I hadn’t done much writing since August, it didn’t mean that I wasn’t champing at the bit to do so. The words just weren’t coming. I do believe the dam has developed a crack.
I finished a chapter the other day and I am at present working on another. I won’t jinx it by saying that I’m writing again. Let’s just say, I am working on writing again. My goal is to get back into a groove where I am writing at least several hundred words a day.
The goal after that is to get back up to a thousand or more words a day and then the next goal is to finish the friggin’ books that have been staring at me for months at a time!!!
Wow, I have goals again!
You all have a good one and keep your eyes on your goals. It’s all one step at a time.
Posted in Writing
Tags: Author, Books on writing, Craft of writing, Doggoned, Fiction, Life, Multiple Sclerosis, Novel writing, Writer
My brain scares me at times
Posted by doggonedmysteries
We had a very gray and rainy day yesterday so I really didn’t go anywhere or do anything. That is until I stood at my kitchen window and watched a man walk past our yard.
He wasn’t dressed for the weather. He dragged one of those folding two-wheeled grocery carts behind him. When he reached the end of our fence, he stopped, pulled a bag out of the cart, and put it in the dumpster for the apartment building behind us.
It’s my brain that had him as a serial killer putting a bag with a body part in the dumpster. It’s a good thing that I don’t live alone because sometimes I scare myself.
You all have a good one.
Posted in Writing
Tags: Author, Bones, Bull Terriers, Caregiver, Doggoned, Fiction, Life, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
Letter to Me
Posted by doggonedmysteries
Dear Me,
Remember when you managed to write pages upon pages in your books every day? What happened? You really need to figure out the whats and whys, kick them in the ass, and get back to work. This is taking too long and it is too important to keep screwing up.
Sure, many things have happened this past year. In fact, for several years you’ve had a number of life changing events happen. Don’t take them for granted, use them.
Your Father, Mother, sisters and parents in law are gone, use all that sorrow, hurt, pain, and emotion in your writing. Stop bottling it all up inside and set it free in your writing.
Your Husband, Aunts, Cousins, and friends love you. Embrace that love and bring that joy back into your writing.
All my love,
Me
On the road back to writing well
Posted by doggonedmysteries
I can pick up my desk top computer today. Yay! I hope he has good news to tell me about my data. I am glad we purchased the lap top even though it will take a little while to pay off that once clear charge. It did come in handy for the time it took to fix my old faithful desk top.
I will set the desk top up on my desk in the living room and take my lap top up to my bedroom. I’ll have a place I can escape to where I can write in peace once again. The antique desk from the MIL’s house is in the bedroom which will make it a decent writer’s retreat.
It will be nice to have the lap top to take with me when I find a new I-need-to-get-out-of-the-house place to write this summer. I used to go to our local Borders but now that is closed and I really do need to find a new place. The B&Ns here have tiny cafes and they aren’t very friendly to anyone who wants to sit there for more than a few minutes.
I am scoping out a small coffee shop that might allow long-term seating with coffee purchases. It isn’t far from the house and their coffee is wonderful.
Tags: Author, Craft of writing, Dead, Disability, Doggoned, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer, Writing
Back it up…I should tattoo that on my hands.
Posted by doggonedmysteries
So I’m sort of getting used to the new lap top. I do love the wireless feature. Being able to take the computer to my bedroom, my chair, or even the kitchen has its perks.
I do hope my computer gets fixed sometime this week. I also hope that I didn’t lose the couple batches of pictures and some writing I’d done and hadn’t gotten around to backing up. Nasty little F*tards who send out viruses and make us average people suffer are worthless pieces of crap. Normally, I made regular back ups, but since the heart attack, I’ve neglected several things and that was one of them.
Oh well, you live and learn–sometimes. You think I would’ve learned since my hard drive crashed a couple of years ago, but NOOOOOO, I forgot for a few months. Yes, Dave I lost a lot of the book if my computer guru doesn’t recover everything.
You all have a good one and don’t forget to BACK IT UP!
Tags: Author, Bones, Bull Terriers, Caregiver, Dead, Disability, Doggoned, Multiple Sclerosis
Another senior moment
Posted by doggonedmysteries
Earlier, much earlier, I had an idea and thought, “wow, that’d make a great blog post!” I didn’t make a note, should have. For the life of me I can’t remember what was so brilliant.
Is it any wonder that every flat surface in my house is covered with sticky notes?
They aren’t just my sticky notes, The Curmudgeon has his share of them too. His are far more cryptic than mine. For example, do you have any idea what sw=E4 Z22 2:30 means? Neither do I.
Mine are more like, livingroom rugs 11′ by 8′ and 8′ by 5′. Then there’s “Dn’t fgt Lot ticks.” Easy peasy right?
However, here I am writing away and I still can’t remember what that brilliant idea for a blog post was, DUH.
Posted in Writing
Tags: Author, Bones, Bull Terriers, Caregiver, Dead, Doggoned, Multiple Sclerosis, Post A Day 2011, Writer, Writing
Hey, I really did need more books…
Posted by doggonedmysteries
I ordered three new books today, The Thinker’s Thesaurus, Word Painting, and The Wrong Word Dictionary. It’s Signals catalogues fault. I found The Thinker’s Thesaurus in it and didn’t like the price so I went online and found it on Amazon for five dollars less.
You know how Amazon is, they always offer you suggestions “if you like that you might like this’ and that’s how I ended up buying the other two books. {Sigh} I’m weak.
Posted in Writing
Tags: Author, Books on writing, Bull Terriers, Caregiver, Dead, Doggoned, Multiple Sclerosis, Writing
Oh, muse of mine, return to me
Posted by doggonedmysteries
Oh, please muse of mine come kick me in the a** and jump-start my writing. Seek me out and hold a gun to my head–make me write.
Take the blank spaces in my brain and fill them to overflowing with words. Make the words dance and the voices come back to sing operas.
Make my fingers fly over the keyboard telling the tales locked up inside me.
Tags: Author, Bones, Books on writing, Doggoned, Novel writing, Post A Day 2011, Writer, Writing
Write the perfect want ad
Posted by doggonedmysteries
My body is flabby. My brain is flabbier. I am out of shape both physically and mentally. Although I’ve quit smoking and am eating healthier meals I find I’m gaining pounds by leaps and bounds.
I’ve tried exercising but since I’m basically a very lazy person I tend to fade fast. That also goes for any writing exercises I’ve tried. My brain tends to overload rather quickly.
At this point, I’m beginning to think that I not only need a personal trainer to kick me physically back into shape, but I also need a personal writing trainer to tie me to my desk and hold a gun to my head.
Maybe one that does both. How does one write that want ad? How would you write it?
Posted in healthy living, Misc, Writer, Writing
Tags: Author, Bones, Books on writing, Craft of writing, Doggoned, Heart smart, Multiple Sclerosis, Novel writing, Post A Day 2011, Writing
Writing exercise
Posted by doggonedmysteries
Take a line from one of your books and improve on it, exaggerate it, go over the top!
Curiosity got the better of me; I tugged the gate open and slipped into the run.
Curiosity grabbed me by the scruff of the neck, threw me through the open gate, and into the run.
I blushed for the second time.
I felt the heat of blood infuse my face and knew it looked like a red neon sign for the second time. I could almost picture the cartoon arrow flashing above my head ‘look here, look here!’
Posted in My books, Writer, Writing
Tags: Author, Bones, Books on writing, Bull Terriers, Doggoned, Multiple Sclerosis, Novel writing, Post A Day 2011, Writer, Writing
Time to whip myself back into shape
Posted by doggonedmysteries
I find that my muse has completely jumped ship. She’d better get her butt back here soon. It’s as though my brain caught a computer virus and shut down. Not a good thing.
I’m thinking that I probably need to jump start my creativity with a good infusion of writing exercises. In other words, my brain needs to get some exercise. Come to think of it so does my body, the no smoking has added a few pounds.
Oh, how exciting, me a lazy person, has not only quit smoking, but I am now going to exercise both brain and body.
You, my dear readers, might be subjected to some writerly exercises for a while until my brain gets the idea that it is NOT on vacation and MUST work. You will also be subjected to me bitching about exercising my body.
Be prepared, it’s going to be a bumpy ride. This isn’t going to be pretty.
Posted in Heart Attack, Misc, My blog, My books, Writer, Writing
Tags: Author, Bones, Bull Terriers, Caregiver, Dead, Disability, Doggoned, Multiple Sclerosis, Post A Day 2011, Writer
Calgon, take me away!
Posted by doggonedmysteries
With the MIL’s house almost ready for painting, I had hoped my stress levels would drop knowing we might be able to put it on the market soon.
Then we got the county tax, city tax, and school real estate tax bills for the house. EEEEEKS!!!! I can’t believe how high they are when compared to ours. Double taxes, double utilities, double maintenance, this completely sucks. Moreover, we haven’t received the estimate for the roof repairs yet and we still have to pay for the funeral.
Excessive stress doesn’t help when it comes to writing. I find myself getting easily distracted all the time. Even reading, which for me is a passion, is difficult. All I can do is wait it out and hope for the best.
Posted in Misc, Writer, Writing
Tags: Bones, Bull Terriers, Caregiver, Dead, Disability, Life, MS, Multiple Sclerosis, Post A Day, Post A Day 2011, Property tax, Writer, Writing
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