WOW!
Posted on 04/02/2008 6:05:12 PM PDT by Soaring Feather
Good to hear from you Knitting, so glad you are writing.
Wonderful poem, I especially like the birds and blossoms theme. The dropping blossoms and snow reference is real, I see it here where I live.
We are needing rain badly, it started to sprinkle earlier this evening, then quit. Hope we get a good rain soon.
What not home until late?? Mercy, those are long hours.
I’ve actually been writing quite a lot. I started on one chapter of a particular story, and it grew into three...instead of the usual 3,000 word chapter for that story, it passed 10,000....and I wrote maybe 3 or 4 short pieces, and some poetry which is not quite proper for this forum....and a chapter on my other story. It’s been a pretty productive period.
That is so great! I cannot imagine myself writing a novel, maybe I do have one in me and I am holding back, some have suggested that.
One thing and my train of thought is gone, I get side tracked so easily. To write a novel one has to stay focused, that is my problem.
B.B. King - The Thrill Is Gone
Oh man, BBKing justs rips my heart out.
Do you guys leave that music up online a couple days? The selections are excellent.
The only way to write a novel is to start. The other thing you absolutely need to do is back it up. A few years ago I lost a dozen pages of meaty notes and you can't believe how much that rots.
After the painters cleared out for the weekend, I took the trash out. I wanted to sit out there for a bit but my yard furniture is in the basement. I looked my Clematis over saw one sprig with green leaves, hope it can make it through the trampling.
We leave the music up all weekend, sometimes into Monday, so take your time with listening.
Glad you got some outside time in, it’s a good kind of tired.
I am not one much for note taking, and I know that is important when attempting to write a novel. For my poetry it usually just flows like a river. Man I love when that happens.
Backup is crucial isn’t it.
I run three things, notes to outline to story, and then simultaneously afterward. It actually feels more flexible that way and easier to keep track of changes. It’s so much easier now than before the computer.
Oh, I can remember women in a writers club that I belonged to would fret about sitting in front of a blank page on a computer. Now that probably cannot write with out it.
I rely so heavily on Word to write and store docs. So glad I have the ease of the 21 Century at my finger tips.
Remember the self-correcting IBM Selectric? Great advances in typewriters and primitive compared to word processing today. Just burn a CD of your work once in a while.
Oh do, I remember the IBM, I have a friend who still uses one in his law office. LOL Granted the office is pretty much shut down these past years.
Also, it is nice to have a second hard drive to save docs and music on. One can pick up a small, hard drive which has a huge
amount of storage space for about $50.00. Good deal.
CD make for good storage too.
Another hard drive is good, too. I save my stuff on two hard drives for just that reason. A CD is cheap if you’re saving text.
Lightnin' Hopkins - Lonesome Dog
Pinetop Perkins - Got My Mojo Working
Pinetop Perkins - Hoochie Coochie Man
Robert Johnson - Me And The Devil Blues
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