Finish the writing I've started, make it something I can be proud of, and sell same (or try).

you must be a superb editor indeed!

That one suggestion of yours seems to have unlocked the log jamb I had been fighting for months.

Many, many thanks—

Judith

and I have a clue (didn’t have one originally) where the action is going to go, then I need to write the conclusion.

But the first 1800 words or so are complete. Yay!

jkd

and I didn’t remember where it was going. I need to do a major rewrite of the beginning as it is, but I didn’t remember the whole premise of the story at all, and so it seemed fairly pointless to work on it.

When I was writing the post tonight about moving away from my family some more, I remembered what had prompted the idea for the story. So, I just wrote myself an explanatory note in the writing itself so that I won’t forget again.

One less aimless fragment. Yah!

jkd

I have no interest in dragging people’s name through the mud and I know that a good deal of what “happened” to me happened because I let it happen or perceived something in a given fashion. After a while, if you’re wounded, you expect to be wounded again and again. You have relationships with folks who will wound you AND you perceive things as deliberate wounding that wouldn’t be otherwise. It takes time and healing to change that. But first you have to stop, take that leap of faith that things might be different.

That was likely one of the hardest things to do.

Anyway, I think I’ve found a “naming schema” that will allow me to write the silly thing without getting all caught up in a tangle of names and/or legal suits when I’m done!

Yay! Another hurdle complete….

jkd

and edited same. So that’s all set. I have to add text to the images, proofread the data, write what’s necessary to fill in the gaps, and then figure out WHERE and HOW you sell an ebook?

Along this line, I spent yesterday and today charting some data from the USDA website. Lots of interesting info there. It does take some doing (charting, condensing, organization, and to get it to where it’ll be useful for Joe & Jane Consumer!

jkd

so now I just have to “construct” the pdf file that we’ll sell as an ebook, and my seasonal food ebook will be done!

jkd

I just found/read some of the blogs of my friends and other pro writers I’ve met/know of.

There’s so much of the craft I just don’t know, don’t do, etc. that it seems overwhelming!

Ack.

I’ve wanted to write as long as I can remember, and I’ve let myself prepare for it so badly. I hope I have time….

Sigh.

jkd

I realized sometime today that I would have been married to my ex 34 years today. And that’s what got me writing again! I don’t know if the idea upset me that much, or what.

I’m amused and grateful. I’ll take it. Whatever works!

jkd

of writing every day. I can’t say that I’m spending the 2-5 hours a day on this that I should, but I AM doing this every day, which is certainly a step in the right direction.

So yeah me!

jkd

from reading people who know how to do this as I seem to get from NYRSF. Which is great, since NYRSF is only one weekend a month and the effect lasts about 4 days after I catch up my sleep.

I’ve been reading Secret Windows, which are essays and articles by Stephen King about writing and being a writer. I’m not real interested in Joe Blow’s school of writing text. I’m much more interested in stuff written by the people who actually write for a living.

Sigh, I’m too goddamn picky or fussy or a snob, or something. This elimates a good deal of the “how to write” books, believe it or not. All kinds of people will tell you how to write a novel, whether or not they’ve actually ever done it successfully, or not.

jkd