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Not Never -- a #row80 check-in and #WIPpetWednesday post #WIPpetteers

Life has this little habit of distracting us from ourselves and our creative outlets.  At least, that’s what it does to me.  House buying, especially, seems to put its pinch on my writing (and any other creative endeavor, save perhaps day dreaming or decorating planning).

That said, looking at houses when you don’t need to pick one can inspire characters, worlds, even whole plots.  What would…

It’s a long time since I wrote a post for either of my blogs. In keeping up the ROW80 challenge, I’ve found my creative energy for “reporting my progress” has been close to nil. Certainly my desire to share has dwindled greatly over the years. I always wanted my writing to be about the stories in my head, not about me. Lately… there’s been waaaay too much “Me” in the mix. But today is a sort of…

August? Already? If you’re like me at all, this year things seem to be just flying by. Some, of course, comes from just being that much busier (especially mentally) than I ever remember being. It seems there’s always something I need to keep track of, need to schedule, plan, do, sketch out, organize, save, report… Oh, how I dread reporting. It’s not much of a surprise, I guess, that I have…

I am not the best of bloggers. A large portion comes from the belief that “nothing in my life is that important it deserves sharing“. There’s also a bit of “the rare moments are too precious to scatter to the winds“. There’s also a bit of “the world is full of over-sharing already, and I don’t think I need to add to the cacophony“. As a global culture, we bemoan our lack of privacy, the invasion…

As you can guess, this is more of a ROW80 check-in than anything else. I wish it was a post filled with grand discoveries (and possibly a book reveal), but nope… this is me saying I’m really fighting to stay in this writing game lately. It’s a general depression of sorts, to be fair. I’m just not seeing The Point in most anything. I’m doing things because I said I would do them… Something deep…

Nah, not a new story—just a new take on an old one. Not really even a new take, I guess. I’ve just been taking all I know about my characters and all I’ve been working on for so long, and I’m gathering it together, looking for the patterns that make sense, and hobcobbling them into a more coherent presentation. At least, that’s the plan. So my goal for this Round of Words? A compendium. Both…

Today, being the first Wednesday of June I get to do one of my double posts again… a check-in for the ROW80 and an Insecure Writers Support Group monthly post. ROW80 Slow and Steady may end up being the best description of this Round of Words. While writing (in the “words on a page” sense) has not been an every day occurrence yet, I’ve managed to write more consistently—not always new…