A Writer’s Dream: Getting to Pleasure
Once I found a secret story hidden behind a rabbit’s picture on a web page. Clicking the link revealed a journal kept by a writer. It’s been a while now, but the part I remember most was that she found a magic mirror. I don’t recall why she was drawn to put it on her desk and stare into it before she started writing. She said it was as if all her internal resistance to getting down to work vanished when she did that. Writing wasn’t hard when she looked in that mirror. Telling stories turned from struggle to pleasure. She could write for hours, forgetting who she was, where…
Captivatingly Creative Marketing
I had no idea what to write for today’s Sunday Scribblings prompt–captivating. I decided to sleep on it last night. I decided to let it keep simmering this morning while I got down to work on my WIP. I still didn’t have an idea when it was time to take a break for the morning run. It wasn’t until I was posting my word count for #amwriting on Twitter that my attention was captivated by a brilliantly creative marketing tool–a little game. Now I get paid to solve people’s computer problems, so I guess I was a prime target for an invitation to test my problem solving skills. I clicked…
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Opportunity’s Disguises
As Disasters While we may dream of opportunity knocking on our door in the form of Oprah bringing us a new car or hitting the lottery, the biggest opportunities in my life have come disguised as something less appealing. When my father was dying and my sister was crumbling under the stress of taking care of him, we made a pact to sign up for a fiction workshop and get a start on the novels we’d always talked about writing one day. It became an escape from the reality of hospital waiting rooms and long hours at the dialysis clinic. At the end of three months I had about 30…