Finish the Goddess Oracle Book in 2007

Making steady progress, though not as much as I’d like, maybe. The key I think is keeping up the habit of writing, even when I don’t want to. It’s so damned hard to warm up when you don’t want to!

I am a daughter older than her father.

Old, old am I, as old as Mind and at least as old as Deceit; I am She who is intellect and insight, and I know how to beguile with reason, which is not the same as truth.

I am and have been all these things: the bird on the water, the snake in the rock, the tree on the hill; the shining dew, the olive-wood image, the City on the height. I have yoked oxen and tamed horses, devised festival and competition, art and glory.

I guide heroes and those who would dare; I have killed Giants, destroyed disorder, hidden secrets.

Long, long ago, I contested for the City with dark Poseidon, and I won, for I am the better.

From nothing, I can craft anything. From thin air, lightning. From old bones, music. From mud, the invaluable amphora. Out of utility I create beauty; from defeat, victory; and from anger, justice.

Be mindful, for I am often with you and may take any form; the owl-eyed girl at the well, the matron at the loom, the old woman with the spindle who beckons; or the potter selling her wares, the warrior fighting beside you, the mentor who offers advice. I watch with bright eyes, shining and changeable as the sea, daring you to see through my illusions; and indeed, the clever, the wily, the canny are my most beloved.

To recognize me, recognize the enthousiasmos within you, and be shrewd enough to pull the question from the answer. For this is truth: though I am a liar, I am entirely trustworthy.

I’ve been writing pretty consistently; I got myself a 3-ring binder, a bunch of printer paper (oh and the ridiculously expensive ink my printer demands) and a 3-hole punch and have started collecting the various “finished” bits into it. I’ve got rather more done than I thought I had, especially with the Goddess tales; I have nearly a quarter of them done, when I thought I had maybe half that!

I organized things better and now have some kind of handle on this Plan. I’ve been writing furiously the last couple of days and it’s been going well.

Wrote another of the tales and got a couple of the information/interpretation pages done to a finished level.

again, organize this goal, and start making specific goals towards the end; ones that I can accomplish. It’s a little too vague now.

Still haven’t really organized it; I guess I don’t know where to start. It is, after all, the first book I’ve ever tried to write!

all the little bits of paper, and transferred every little scrap of story into Word; and I’ve also been working on two more of the stories, that of Athena and that of Jeanne d’Arc.

changed the goal to get the book done in 2007, not by 2007, because it’s just not going to happen now. I really need to get this thing organized. I need to print stuff out, make an outline of the entire book, assemble some kind of filing or notebook system and get my head around some kind of plan for the whole thing. I’ve just been doing bits and pieces here and there and it’s so disorganized and jumbled in my head that I have no idea where to start or where I am or have been.

I’ve been bad, bad, bad about this one. What is it about writing that goes so well with procrastinating? Though I’m plenty inspired to research and write about other Goddesses (see http://www.thaliatook.com/ogod.html ). I just have the worst time finishing projects.

I need to work out a plan for finishing this goal, by breaking it down into smaller sections; right now it’s awfully vague and intimidating. I’m going to think about how to do that and report back.

Rhiannon, Kore, and Kali.