When the mind feel like a holiday from coming up with new ideas for the novel I’m writing, new back story, dialogue, plot issues and answers, that’s when it may be time for writing some more non fiction. And right now, that is just the spot I feel I am currently in.
It’s Mothers Day, and I am having a lovely day of doing not much really, while my husband gets on with doing things – making coffee first thing in the morning for me, as a lovely Mothers Day gift, then cleaning, and now working hard on getting our main meal cooked and lovely. Roast chicken with vegetables, in the Weber, lovely!
I was reading various things on Facebook and Twitter, then I decided it was time to get some writing done. If I want to call myself a writer, I have to write, right? Right! So I’ve spent a few hours adding to my current non fiction work, an exploration on the everyday wisdoms I have found, and am continuing to find, in my life. I envisage this book being popular with people who are working at finding deeper meaning in their own life.
(this book case is right next to me, when I sit on the sofa with my laptop, and write, and the green and blue thing is a small blanket I’ve been meaning to finish crocheting, but need to get more yarn for, and keep forgetting to …)
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This book is still a long way from finished, but I am finding the writing process a satisfying one, thinking, then writing, thinking, writing some more. The word count is slowly rising, but there are still many more words that need to be written.
And today, , a few days past Mothers Day, I have connected with this blog post, in draft form and am finishing it off, having just posted a new blog post here, with a new Creative Writing exercise, the sixth one. I’m happy with the post, it’s a good writing exercise, about using the senses in your writing, which is always a good idea to try to remember to do. It brings more into your writing.
It was a creative writing workshop I help a couple of years ago, so I had to make a few changes, which is definitely a ‘non-fictionish’ kind of thing to do. Perhaps I’ll get some more of that novel written today too, and more of the non fiction manuscript I’ve been working on, off and on.
So another blog post done, and posted, I’ll finish that coffee, feed Missy, then get my own lunch happening! Life, such a lovely life, I am living here!
Carolyn Cordon - Creative 