Damn you, Daylight Savings

I have definitely fallen off the writing wagon this weekend.

Friday day, my husband and I worked hard to put the finishing touches on a desk we have been repurposing for a mini-bar. Between that and making a cake for a little party we had planned to celebrate a friends birthday, my time was pretty much occupied. Friday night, the so called little party led to an empty bottle of tequila, a 3 a.m. trip to IHOP, and not getting to bed until 5 a.m. (all in all a good time considering I did not vomit or pass out at any point during the evening)

Saturday-the tequila caught up with me and royally kicked my ass. Most wicked hangover EVER. I had a perma-headache from the moment I woke up until I went to bed. Absolutely dreadful. So much so I have to ask myself- WTF were you thinking?!?!? Never again I tell you. Never again.

Sunday-slept in, woke up, looked at the clock. Noon. Thought to myself- No, it couldn't possibly be noon. Wrong. Damn you daylight savings! At no point in my life do I think to myself that I need to lose an hour. What sense does this make? None. People should really ask me about these things.

Looking back at my last three posts, they all pretty much consist of the same thing. I have too much to do and no time. And this is without even having a job! I have to go back to work soon and then what will happen? Next mission: I need a schedule ASAP!

Oh and below is a before and after picture of our newly re-finished mini bar! It is soooo cute!

BEFORE

AFTER

Too Much To Do...

Oy! I had a ton of things to get done today, and not one of them had anything to do with writing. Grrrrr. Although now, since everything is done I can focus on the task at hand....hopefully.

Now that my mundane list is done, I need to work on the novel. I'm excited to write this next chapter- it is the beginning of conflict between the main characters and I know once I start writing it I won't be able to stop. It will be interesting to see what comes of this next scene. The main character is not used to being out of his comfort zone and he tends to take drastic measures in his effort to right the situation.

So...new to do list-
1. Write the next chapter without any interruptions (interruptions being my cats sitting on the laptop and my    Corgi, Ein, telling me its time to be fed and then it is time to play).
2. Break down and create a Twitter account even though I have been opposed to this idea for months, the goal is to at least add one writer, publisher, or agent as a friend day and follow their feed. Hoping to make a few more contacts this way.
3. Read the rest of Strunk and White's THE ELEMENT OF STYLE. (loving this 'little' book by the way)

Alright, enough blogging, there's work to be done. I have become fond of my little blog though. I choose to think of it as an e-diary. Then when I'm all rich and famous (wink) I can look back and reflect on my days of anonymity. : )

Writers are God's Fools

My most recent brush with poverty has forced me to get out of the house and drag myself to the local library. In retrospect, I should have done this a lot sooner, but I didn't...that's just how things happen. So anyhoo- I found this book in the nonfiction section titled "Good Advice on Writing: Great Quotations from Writers Past and Present on How to Write Well." Now, I can readily admit, I'm a sucker for a good quote, but I am also very aware of the danger of over-quoting. If all you do is quote, you never actually say anything, but I came across one that I love and cannot get out of my brain so I am forced to share it instead.

"To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling.

You must write every single day of your life.

You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next.

You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.

I wish for you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime.

I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you.

May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories-science fiction or otherwise.
Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world."
                                                               -Ray Bradbury

Which got me thinking, in his own right...

-A writer is a god -he creates a world to live in and people to inhabit it. He wishes the inhabitants to do as he wants, but the inhabitants, having free will, sometimes do as they please with no regard to plot, pacing, or character development. So, sometimes, the god must intervene.

-A writer is a devil-poking holes in the world that god created and causing trouble for all of the inhabitants.

- A writer is a destroyer-tearing down and erasing the blight of the world. Wiping out everything the writer (as a god) had worked so hard to create, but deemed unworthy.

-A writer is a builder-working from the bare bones of a story he adds the materials and words necessary to make a sturdy structure.

We wear many hats and perform many tasks that directly contradict each other, but I love it and can't get enough. Thank god I'm a fool.