To blog or not to blog, that is the question.
This is Anniecollie signing in from her Cottage Of Blog. I'm wondering if your website is like your mansion and your blog is like your summer cottage. Or, your website could be the mother ship and the blog the little lifeboats that are attached. Or? It's fun to speculate all the possibilities. For those who have nothing better to do. LOL
Maybe a website might be a good thing. I have some published short stories I could include.
No. All these tangents are keeping me away from my main duty. Finish two novels and start a third. I've made a decision. Once my immediate self-imposed writing agenda is out of they way, once I've honed down five agents or so, once I've sent out my queries and started on a new project, then, I'll look into a website. Meanwhile my Yahoogroups! (Anniewritinggirl) and this blog will have to do.
I will be in NY for at least another week. I don't seem to be getting any more done than I did at home. I wonder what that tells me? I came here to work--
Last night I worked on revisions of chapter 15 of "Arms." I had to put two versions together and decide which I liked better. I've taken some from this and some from that. No wonder it's taking so long.
I'm finding touch pads to be a colossal pain in the neck. I have short fingers and long nails. They're constantly punching in the wrong keys--even deleting paragraphs of text. Are touch pads becoming a trend now for desk top keyboards? I sincerely hope not. My brother has a wonderful Dell desktop with a keypad with a touch pad. It exhausts me. Much prefer a wireless mouse.
I hope to read some blogs today. Right AFTER I finish chapter 15.
Hope everyone is okay and staying cool. We're supposed to have another heat index over 100. The good news: thunderstorms are expected tonight.
Happy reading, happy writing, happy revising.
Anniecollie. Maybe someday, I'll download Annie's pawprint. LOL
Maybe a website might be a good thing. I have some published short stories I could include.
No. All these tangents are keeping me away from my main duty. Finish two novels and start a third. I've made a decision. Once my immediate self-imposed writing agenda is out of they way, once I've honed down five agents or so, once I've sent out my queries and started on a new project, then, I'll look into a website. Meanwhile my Yahoogroups! (Anniewritinggirl) and this blog will have to do.
I will be in NY for at least another week. I don't seem to be getting any more done than I did at home. I wonder what that tells me? I came here to work--
Last night I worked on revisions of chapter 15 of "Arms." I had to put two versions together and decide which I liked better. I've taken some from this and some from that. No wonder it's taking so long.
I'm finding touch pads to be a colossal pain in the neck. I have short fingers and long nails. They're constantly punching in the wrong keys--even deleting paragraphs of text. Are touch pads becoming a trend now for desk top keyboards? I sincerely hope not. My brother has a wonderful Dell desktop with a keypad with a touch pad. It exhausts me. Much prefer a wireless mouse.
I hope to read some blogs today. Right AFTER I finish chapter 15.
Hope everyone is okay and staying cool. We're supposed to have another heat index over 100. The good news: thunderstorms are expected tonight.
Happy reading, happy writing, happy revising.
Anniecollie. Maybe someday, I'll download Annie's pawprint. LOL
posted by Unknown at 10:37 AM
5 Comments:
Hello Patricia... you have an interesting blog. Thanks for sharing.
Just how easy/difficult is it to write a novel or book?
Feel free to drop by my blog... toflight.blogspot.com . I would welcome your comments. Thanks.
Have a great day.
Rob Widdup
If you don't like touch pad, you can always get an external mouse. :) That's what I do.
Patricia,
We just had a BAD thunderstorm and the weatherman says we should get a major cooldown tomorrow. I'm looking forward to it.
Tanya
Hu angelle,
I'm not using my computer. Believe me, even my lap top has an external mouse. LOL But right now, my brother's computer is the only one that's hooked up for the internet. That is, until I get home.Pat
Hi Rob.
How difficult is it to write a novel? Hmmm.
That depends on an authors experience, talent and instincts. For some it comes easier than for others. There is a lot involved. For instance, you have to a premise and story goal. What the heck is the story about?
Then, you have to have live, breathing and interesting characters who are basically good but get put into bad situations--which leaves us to conflict. You can't have a plot (that's the story line) without a conflict. Novels=conflict. You have to find situations to get them into and they have to have internal conflicts that fuel the external ones.
does that make sense so far? Novels equal goals, motivation and conflict moving into the direction of resolution at the end.
How hard is that?
Pat
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