tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2444069458422024208.post5701260831931464801..comments2024-01-28T06:18:45.909-08:00Comments on The Curzon Group: Good Writing Day?curzon grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00593876062208166082noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2444069458422024208.post-39287531829913950682011-02-21T00:10:01.166-08:002011-02-21T00:10:01.166-08:00Thanks, Cassandra. You sound very commmitted. It&...Thanks, Cassandra. You sound very commmitted. It's the only way to succeed. Will check out your website. Good luck.Richard Jay Parkerhttp://www.richardjayparker.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2444069458422024208.post-70081083171970303612011-02-20T12:54:52.704-08:002011-02-20T12:54:52.704-08:00I'm currently working on my second book (Altho...I'm currently working on my second book (Although the first is unpublished as of now). The first draft of my first book took forever to write because I was working full-time, writing when I could, and living in the southern U.S. with a faulty air conditioning (hot weather slows my creative cells). I pushed, though, and got it done. The book I'm writing now is going much faster and some of that is due to now being unemployed. It's difficult, I have a very narrow budget, and worry sometimes eats at me, but my writing is getting a lot of attention and I love that. I started out telling myself I would do 1000 words a day, but sometimes things interfered. I currently have a goal of 5000 words a week to give me some leeway and I usually exceed it. I'm grouchy though if I get interrupted and it seems I'm always thinking about the story and characters I have yet to verbally paint clamour for attention. Still, I wouldn't have it any other way.<br />Cassandra Connolly-Brown (Rose Connelly is my pseudonym)<br />I'm at roseconnelly.wordpress.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2444069458422024208.post-35797266893782271352011-02-20T12:32:03.790-08:002011-02-20T12:32:03.790-08:00Thanks for making me laugh out loud, Charlie. I h...Thanks for making me laugh out loud, Charlie. I hope your last comment was only based on true events.<br /><br />Think you're right, Sally. You have to wave your work off at the gates at some point...even if you don't feel it's ready to go blinking into the big, bad world.<br /><br />Thanks, Beth. I think you should worry if you felt any other way.Richard Jay Parkerhttp://www.richardjayparker.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2444069458422024208.post-5688808789150019292011-02-20T10:15:22.582-08:002011-02-20T10:15:22.582-08:00That our writing never truly leaves us is the best...That our writing never truly leaves us is the best and worst part of writing. I never feel done, which is good, but I never feel accomplished, which is not so good...<br /><br />Excellent thought. Good to know we're not alone...lol.Bethhttp://www.writer-in-progress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2444069458422024208.post-71124401442871657132011-02-18T05:24:36.359-08:002011-02-18T05:24:36.359-08:00I think that maybe we writers are perfectionists (...I think that maybe we writers are perfectionists (& a little bit insecure) so that how ever much we've written and how ever long we've spent polishing it, we feel our worker is never ready for the eyes of the public.<br />Sometimes we have to say 'it's good enough' and draw a line.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2444069458422024208.post-20991363242818105332011-02-18T04:50:25.863-08:002011-02-18T04:50:25.863-08:00I would love to set a word count goal and meet it ...I would love to set a word count goal and meet it daily, at least for first drafts. I just go. It usually takes me an hour of doing other stuff (such as blogging) to warm up before things happen. <br /><br />Much like the situation you've described, I'm writing the story in my head when I'm driving, falling asleep, or whatever other activity I happen to be forced to do.<br /><br />I cannot relate to your uncompleted sex analogy, however, having my partner walk out of the room before I am finished is, sadly, familiar.Charlie Ricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02347938747849177632noreply@blogger.com