One thing I’ve learned about schedules during the last week — they MUST be flexible! My schedule, however well intended, wasn’t practicable. Not that I’m giving up on it. Oh no . . . I plan to continue with this attempt at fixing my life. In fact, there were some positive results. But perfection is impossible so flexibility is a necessity.
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Work Schedules! Do They Work For You?
Do you have a daily work schedule? How about a weekly work schedule? I’m a schedule designer. I love to make work schedules in a variety of formats, including in Word document format, and spreadsheets.
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Writing, Tips, and Twitters
Are you on Twitter? If so, you’re welcome to follow me. So many people are connecting on Twitter for microblogging fun, I recently even discovered one of my daughters there. Most of my Twittering is about writing, including my content-writing work at Squidoo.Com. I maintain a second account to talk about herbs and gardening: Linda’s Herbal.
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One Novel – Finally Ready to Submit!
After all these years, I finally have one novel revised enough to submit. That’s quite an accomplishment, for me. I never understood as I was writing it how intense my revision experience would be. I’ve been over that manuscript six times now. For most of the first year I was afraid to look at it!
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Twttrlists, a Contest !!! …and Writing
If you’re a regular reader of this blog you probably know by now that I make a bit of extra money every month by writing lenses for Squidoo.Com. What I’m making is not a living wage, but it is appreciated – very much so! Squidoo was originally created to have a venue for donations to charity, and many “lensmasters” (as we are called) are able to donate 100% of their earnings to whatever charities they like most. Others are actually earning enough to call this a great part-time job!
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Garden Ramblings on a Sunday Night
I planted nasturtiums in my garden this year. I planted a lot of other things too – but for now, let’s think about nasturtiums.
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Improvise!
Anyone who needs a new hobby – or some great laughter – might enjoy looking at Improv Everywhere. This is my kind of fun!
If You Don’t Like It, Change It!
This is my new motto: “If you don’t like it, change it!” I thought this up while I was doing the sixth revision of one of my novels. It occurred to me that learning to change the words or paragraphs in a novel is an art. When I first started revising this novel it was hard to change anything. It wasn’t until the third or fourth revision that I became utterly comfortable with deleting large blocks of text. Fortunately, this helped the novel to shrink from 51,000 words to about 46,000. It is a middle grade novel, so shrinkage is good!
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Questions to Ask Yourself About Creative Endeavors
1. Do you have a sacred space in your life wherein you can relax and create undisturbed and without distractions? This space would include a physical location plus a given time that you could trust will be yours daily, to pursue your creative delights.
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A NaNoWriMo Moment; Stillness Speaks
No, that isn’t the title of my novel, though in a way, I think it would be a good novel title. Stillness Speaks – this speaks to me. It speaks to me of that space between words and actions, that place of serenity and clarity. That opportunity to see clear through to the absolute truth of a situation, to understand it perfectly without any conscious analysis, and to feel the natural, normal welling of love that flows upwards from heart to head, saying that whatever is happening is alright.
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Writerly Success
Success is a seductive word. It leads you to think there’s something more that must be achieved – some unobtained happiness that waits for your arrival. You strive and look forward, then pout when things don’t progress as quickly as desired. Is writing really that hard?
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More About My Workshop on Creating an Impressive Writing Website
I’m amazed, thrilled, and relieved that my Muse Online Writers Conference workshop is being well-received. I’ve got just enough participants there to keep me busy without feeling desperately overwhelmed.
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Muse Conference – In Full Swing…
A year ago I volunteered to present a Muse Online Writer’s Conference workshop. My workshop is for helping writers create websites. I’ve never done anything like this before in my entire life, although I’m in my mid-fifties, and I was very apprehensive about the whole thing all year long.
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