What am I doing up?

I am up far earlier than I should be today....it's Saturday and I generally don't get up this early, but when a warm body slides out of the covers and patters down the hall you are only kidding yourself that you can stay put.

I guess I will work on my book, after all any waking hours not spent doing that are a waste of time.

Goodbye gentle readers, talk to you soon.

The spirit of Hemingway

This blog by no means compares my writing to that of Hemingway. It merely embraces his spirit. If you are stuck on a chapter or a rewrite, have a drink. If you are stuck on the next one have your characters drink. It all comes out smoother with alcohol. Its as though the drinking muffles your own thoughts and predisposed notions of what should be happening in your book and lets the characters speak in their own voices. I know, I know, I am not trying to promote alcoholism, I just found that my words come without effort when I relax, I didn't say get drunk for Pete's sake.  

I don't smoke anymore

Nope I don't smoke coming up on a year now. I vicariously smoke through one of my characters in my book though and she enjoys it immensely. Through that character I trash the non-smokers of the world as judgmental and narrow minded. I happen to be one of those folks now so it's almost as though I am self loathing for giving it up.  I am working very hard to revise my book for an the unforgiving agents and publishers of the world. I keep telling myself that the first publisher J.K. Rawlings came in contact with told her that she shouldn't give up her day job and Van Gough died poor and unappreciated. So, I am at this point in very good company.

Wow, what a backslide

Okay, I'm back. No, I was not abducted by aliens (but then again, would I know it if I were?). I have miserably backslidden into a pattern of eating chocolate and drinking wine. Hmmm, now that I have said it I can see where I've gone wrong. I have gained weight (that could've probably gone unspoken) and I have quit my job to pursue a full time writing career. Not quite finished editing a novel which I have worked on for three years. I will start blogging on a regular basis, if not for me, then for my followers all two of you (Hi mom and Brandy) LOL! Is anyone out there?