Please, Mom, Can I watch TV or Scrap?
Aug
2nd
2007
I am writing a short story, and have been wrestling with it for days. This is not part of the book that I have been posting excerpts of, rather a short story that I want to send to a magazine..and hopefully get published.
Now mind you I am still talking about the rough draft… I need to finish the rough draft… then the fun revision part comes, but first the rough draft… I like my beginning, I like my middles, but the end is not coming. I mean, I know the ending…. but not how to get there exactly.
And I will do anything rather than finish it… clean out trash cans, shop, read other people’s blogs (althought that is fun all the time), fix Mary’s computer, because I have some graphics projects I would much rather do…
see all I have to do is basically write anything, and then the revising takes over… and I will cheerfully sit for hours revising, tweaking, polishing… so here is my short blogging break…. no emoticons, no hyperlinks, no layouts, but as soon I finish , and that will be today, then I will reward myself with some luscious scrapping, and an episode of The Closer, and reading, and maybe even a trash can or two, maybe not the trash cans.
SO for those of you kind encouragers, could you send up an arrow prayer that I might accomplish sooner than later… thanks
Melinda
Will do, Mommy!!! Be diligent!!
Victoria
So, if that explains the comments on my blog!
I love to get your comments, but I, sincerely, hope you will be able to tame that ending and make it they way it is supposed to be. I find that I think absolutely brillant thoughts in the shower. I am thinking of using a grease pencil dangling from a long tether from the shower head. I also think I sing well in the shower, so I’m not sure that my thinking is really all that superior!
Fingers crossed and prayers said for that ending!
angie
Hey there. . .you’re always in my prayers. Even if I don’t have a specific “thing” to pray about!