Write more often

One is called BrookieB.org, and the other is “A Real Girl.”

The BrookieB site is a site I am trying to get off the ground for tween girls. It’s an advice site an place for girls to go an talk about life and problems they might be having. its safe and comments are moderated and checked by me before they go live to prevent internet predators and crazy ploys. I’d really like to make this a success; if you know any tween girls who’d like to be part of an online community, send ‘em to BrookieB.org!

My other site, A Real Girl, is a site about my life. It’s ore of an online journal than anything else. if you’re interested, check it out. Its sort of a social experiment of mine. It’s over at http://brookieb.typepad.com/a_real_girl/

I am hoping to use the sites to get myself writing more often! Wish me luck!

Hi,

I am someone who love to write, who crave it, still life being very busy it is hard to push other stuff around and get to sit down (before a screen or just a notebook) to write and add to the stories I love.

In an effort to find time to write I have try many things, setting schedule, getting up earlier, staying up later… But as most people can tell, life is quick to get in the way of yet an other good habit.

Taking my goal to write more and finally make writing more then just a “once in a while” hobby, I have look at what I was ok to give up or pay to get what I wanted. I found out that I was making a good salary and that as everyone, yes, I would like to make more money but that that money didn’t had that much flavour when I was in front of the fact that my writing was suffering from it. So when my compagnie (in this economy of incertitude and blah blah blah) decided to propose their employer with the possibility for a reduced schedule I jumped in and asked to be at 4days a week (which, in the IT industry is quite a nice opportunity :) ). Yes, I will earn a little less money, but I think it is worth it.

To be sure that this day doesn’t go to waste I have take some precautions:
- It’s Monday, so the office won’t call me cause A) not much happens on Monday B) what happens on Monday can wait to Tuesday anyway
- Everyone with who I live work on that day
- Everyone that do not work on that day and might call or offer activities have been advised that this day is going to be my writing day

What’s left to do? Well I want to plan myself a place to work, a desk a chair or at least some kind of installation that I will use for my writing and give me the feeling that I have “my own place”. And if I could install it outside when it’s all sunny it could even be better.

My new life, which I call “My part time writer, almost full time IT professional life” is going to start on Monday. Wish me luck.

Ryphna

Once upon a time i used to write so often and have been complimented on my work and have considered writing a book on my than one occasion. But alas the stessors of life have taken over and left nothing but exhuastion and apathy in their wake! Someday I will write again!

sometimes when i’m thinking about my future and what i’m going to do, i think about just writing. it’s such an emotional thing for me though, and that’s just not who i am anymore. i will write but not like how i used to. i would pour my soul into my writing, but i’ve learned to not but put my heart on my sleeve as much because it’s more likely it will get shattered. but…. i’m happy now. i have the friends i’m sure i’ll have for the rest of my life, i have a great boyfriend who will most likely end up being my husband, i have a great mother, i have my health, i’m about to leave the city that i hate FOR GOOD! i have nothing to be afraid of. nothing in my surroundings is going to hurt me…. do i want to write? i dont know. do i think i was born to write? most definitely. we’ll see what the future holds i guess.

I miss writing and I want to write more! This goal can be broken up into several goals:
Keep a daily journal
Finish one of my novels
Write for a newspaper again
Enter entries to scrapbook magazine
Keep up with the Dead End
Finish my journaling in my scrapbooks
I am a writer first and foremost but have failed to keep up with it or pursue it as a career.

Would be awesome!

I had my first class last night. The teacher is reminiscent of James Woods with perk – very odd and he doesn’t listen well. After I said that I had been published as a poet, he asked me if I wrote poetry.

Our first class assignment – two pages of description where each of the five basic senses is given its due. So, if I’m seeing roses, I’m smelling them, feeling the thorn prick my finger, hearing the bee buzzing around it, and reminding myself of that great rosehip tea I tasted. I’ve got the experience to write about, but I want to write something that won’t be typical of the others in class.

I had a biopsy once. The lump was on the roof my mouth and the doc cut an artery. I bled for hours and they ended up bringing in an ER surgeon who cauterized the thing after all the anesthesia wore off. As for smell – there’s nothing like the smell of flesh being burned, especially when it’s yours and the scent comes from inside your head.

Yum yum! Descriptive enough?

i’ve been writing every day for the passed 4 days. it feels good. it’s nice bc im so alone in new york. but when i write i have myself and i havent had myself in so long. he helps me write bc there’s so many emotions going on right now. i;m hoping i dont lose my writing ever again.

i write in waves and not often enough. I have recently started a gratitute journal, so i am keen to do that atleast every second day leading upto daily.

Well, I’ve been spending most of my writing energies here on this site. (And I’m even kind of behind on that!) Also, I even made a necessary journal entry recently.

Again, I was thinking about writing fiction more often, when I listed this goal. Well, I may need to get my computer more involved than just Microsoft Word. Because if I don’t open a blank page in Word, then I don’t even start an electronic writing session. And the paper and pen approach seems to generate more To Do lists and topical thoughts, than story sessions.

I have another goal here called “make my computer work for me.” I’m making it work on the social networking front, the job hunt front, and the personal organization front. Time to consider making it work for me on the fiction writing front.