Musings of a Chocoholic Romance Author: Keeping Up and a Challenge

Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Keeping Up and a Challenge

This poor, poor blog, languishing from neglect, mistreatment. Why, the blog protective services could come take it away from me, if I don't start paying more attention to it! Wouldn't want that, I've about got the format and layout where I want it, can't imagine why I'd want to start from scratch. LOL.

So, I've made it a goal (an unwritten one, tho), to attempt to keep up here. I mean, when I need a break from writing, why should I turn to doing something like, say, folding laundry when I can come here and play?

Speaking of playing, I've been messing around on Squidoo and have made several pages on the craft of writing romance novels. The "main" page is called Writing Romance Novels. The other pages (The Mechanics of Writing Romance Novels, Revising and Aditing your Novel, and Creating Conflict in Romance Novels) are accessible from that main page, or simply click on them, here. It's a fun and convenient way to keep track of what I've learned over the years about writing. And a great procrastination destination if the Muse is playing hooky.

Here's a challenge for anyone who needs to play a bit, take a break or fire up the ol' braincell...Look at the picture and set a scene in it. Feel free to post your scene as a comment to this post. C'mon. Don't be shy. I need reading material! GGG.

Happy Writing.

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Quotes About Writing

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word. ~Catherine Drinker Bowen

Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing. ~Melinda Haynes

My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly. ~John D. MacDonald

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. ~Gloria Steinem

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. ~Thomas Mann

Easy reading is damned hard writing. ~Anonymous

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to. ~Somerset Maugham

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. ~E. L. Doctorow

The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing. ~Ken MacLeod\

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. ~Robert A. Heinlein

Never throw up on an editor. ~Ellen Datlow

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. ~Stephen King

There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away. ~Will Shetterly

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned. ~Oscar Wilde

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. ~Jack London

If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter. ~Anonymous

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. ~Ernest Hemingway

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. ~Gene Wolfe