More Ideas Than My Brain Can Handle

Today I've been inundated with ideas. I was at the GRW meeting and the topic was storyboarding. It's a tool some writers use to plot their novels. I've never used this methodology, but it was the conversation after the meeting that stirred my emotional juices. The talk with a friend about cutting down the front bushes had us in stitches. She'd told me about how her husband had built their pond 7 or so years ago that got me going. I had to tell her how I'd only gone outside to tackle those bushes because I couldn't plot.

When the story wouldn't come, I had to use my hands in another way. By the time we finished talking, we were in stitches. Using my hands in another way. . .and the creative floodgates opened. Today, I can't stop thinking. The ideas are flowing so much, I'm now tired. I have to say that my bushes are lovely. Her pond which her husband built so long ago is a lake--a slight exaggeration--but lovely nonetheless, and my hands are tired from typing ideas that will sit in my idea folder until two years from now when I will be able to give them the time they deserve to be written. That's right, two years. I have two years worth or work to do right now. I'm bumping the schedule up, so don't worry. I have to fit in a couple Crawford stories and a couple surprises because that's what makes life interesting.

Now that I'm done using this side of my brain, I'll go back to writing the remainder of my 8 pages for today. Let me put on some Herbie Hancock. . .

And the beat goes on. . .

C

Blogging

It's so good to take a breather and say hello. I'm sitting here in my favorite cafe with Mary Barfield who asked me to lunch and interviewed me for her new blogging site, www.pinkfuzzyslipperwriters.blogspot.com. I've known Mary since I joined GRW in 1994 and she's been actively seeking publication since. The interview was interesting since we were both talking and typing at the same time. Two writers accomplishing the same goal, which has always been to seek publication. I love this business. It's made friends of people who would otherwise probably have never met before. Doctors and photographers, students and actuarial managers, engineers and television writers. I'm heading home to work on my book, I still have ten pages to write for my book and a thesis to work on. I still have to exercise and feed my migraine. Yes, we work through all of this. We're writers. That's what we do. Our characters are richer for our ailments and our abilities. Be sure to check their site. It's very nice.

I gotta go.
Just being me,
Carmen