Comments on: Rushed or crushed? http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2007/11/14/rushed-or-crushed/ Group author website offers new books, excerpts, biographies, and appearance schedules. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:24:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mary Marvella http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2007/11/14/rushed-or-crushed/comment-page-1/#comment-4672 Mary Marvella Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:48:15 +0000 http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2007/11/14/rushed-or-crushed/#comment-4672 :roll: Merry Christmas to all! How do I keep everything going with the writing? I don't sweat the small stuff, like housework. Linda can tell you I'm not a compulsive cleaner. My kid is 35 and married and I have an EX. I started tons of stories years ago and finally had to set goals and select stories to complete and send out. My characters wrestled with each other and with me for their turns. It was not a pretty sight. Since then I've completed several older novels and started others which I actually finished. My friends are writers so I know where to go to whine or get a kick in my butt. It's actually threatening to become winter in Georgia. You write like a writer, must be the company you keep. :roll:
Merry Christmas to all!

How do I keep everything going with the writing? I don’t sweat the small stuff, like housework. Linda can tell you I’m not a compulsive cleaner.

My kid is 35 and married and I have an EX. I started tons of stories years ago and finally had to set goals and select stories to complete and send out. My characters wrestled with each other and with me for their turns. It was not a pretty sight. Since then I’ve completed several older novels and started others which I actually finished. My friends are writers so I know where to go to whine or get a kick in my butt.

It’s actually threatening to become winter in Georgia.

You write like a writer, must be the company you keep.

]]> By: Linda Nightingale http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2007/11/14/rushed-or-crushed/comment-page-1/#comment-4648 Linda Nightingale Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:51:17 +0000 http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2007/11/14/rushed-or-crushed/#comment-4648 If you saw my house, you wouldn't ask! How do we do it? Sometimes I don't think I do. Otherwise, you'd have my angel books! Seriously, passion (writing not writhing) won't accept no for an answer. Thanks for putting this madness into words and perspective. If you saw my house, you wouldn’t ask! How do we do it? Sometimes I don’t think I do. Otherwise, you’d have my angel books! Seriously, passion (writing not writhing) won’t accept no for an answer.

Thanks for putting this madness into words and perspective.

]]> By: Lucy Monroe http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2007/11/14/rushed-or-crushed/comment-page-1/#comment-4581 Lucy Monroe Sat, 17 Nov 2007 03:52:46 +0000 http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2007/11/14/rushed-or-crushed/#comment-4581 Rushed and crushed? Oy...that's my life. LOL But then its everyone's life that I know. But a writer's life has to be full, or wouldn't her stories be flat? Seriously, I know I need to feed my creativity, or it'll get stale. And the only way I know to do that is to *live*. Life is messy, but if it wasn't, my stories would probably be uncomplicated and wouldn't that make them boring? You have to feel in order to write emotion, I think. At least I do. That means experiencing both stress and peace. Pain and joy. Frustration and resolution. Not always pleasant, but definitely necessary. For me, it's not so much *how* I juggle five teens, a demanding mother who could make a psychopath feel guilty (and considering they don't have a guilt module that just shows how talented she is), and everyone and everything else. It is the fact that if I *wasn't* juggling all of that, my writing would not be as rich, my characters not as deep, my need to create not as intense. As for angry family members who recognize themselves? Not yet, but man...desperate? A little. There are a couple who *want* me to incorporate them into my writing. Not to be cranky, but um...no chance. Dh makes fabulous inspiration for my heroes, but the ones who think *they* should be? Not likely. Maybe if *they* read my stories like the rest of my family does, they'd know it too. ;-) Rushed and crushed? Oy…that’s my life. LOL But then its everyone’s life that I know. But a writer’s life has to be full, or wouldn’t her stories be flat? Seriously, I know I need to feed my creativity, or it’ll get stale. And the only way I know to do that is to *live*. Life is messy, but if it wasn’t, my stories would probably be uncomplicated and wouldn’t that make them boring? You have to feel in order to write emotion, I think. At least I do. That means experiencing both stress and peace. Pain and joy. Frustration and resolution. Not always pleasant, but definitely necessary. For me, it’s not so much *how* I juggle five teens, a demanding mother who could make a psychopath feel guilty (and considering they don’t have a guilt module that just shows how talented she is), and everyone and everything else. It is the fact that if I *wasn’t* juggling all of that, my writing would not be as rich, my characters not as deep, my need to create not as intense.

As for angry family members who recognize themselves? Not yet, but man…desperate? A little. There are a couple who *want* me to incorporate them into my writing. Not to be cranky, but um…no chance. Dh makes fabulous inspiration for my heroes, but the ones who think *they* should be? Not likely. Maybe if *they* read my stories like the rest of my family does, they’d know it too. ;-)

]]> By: Irene Peterson http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2007/11/14/rushed-or-crushed/comment-page-1/#comment-4569 Irene Peterson Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:35:08 +0000 http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2007/11/14/rushed-or-crushed/#comment-4569 I read all through these comments and the blog post. Hilary, you could write a book if you really wanted to. I read all through these comments and the blog post.
Hilary, you could write a book if you really wanted to.

]]> By: Devyn QUinn http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2007/11/14/rushed-or-crushed/comment-page-1/#comment-4558 Devyn QUinn Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:30:00 +0000 http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2007/11/14/rushed-or-crushed/#comment-4558 Know what you're saying with this blog, girlfriend. There are days when I feel like I am pulling my hair out with job and family--and trying to be inspired enough to write something original and fresh without rehasing "been there-done that" plots. And, oh, yeah, sometimes the months tick away without a single word written and suddenly there's that freaking deadline starting you in the face (not to mention the contract you signed in your filing cabinet). That's when the panic mode sits in, you pull out the coffee and get really inspired for a few weeks of 24/7 applying butt to chair. Fortunately, I have a super-duper editor who lets me bother her by email 50 times a week, send in ten thousand synopsis versions for a simple novella and--most importantly--lets me write the story that finally forms with few boundaries to hold back my imagination. I feel so blessed to be doing what I love! And as for the losing your mind part. Well, lost mine years ago. If anyone wants to fork over a brain, please send it my way, LOL. Hugs to you. And can't wait to see the piccies from Bergdorfs! Know what you’re saying with this blog, girlfriend. There are days when I feel like I am pulling my hair out with job and family–and trying to be inspired enough to write something original and fresh without rehasing “been there-done that” plots. And, oh, yeah, sometimes the months tick away without a single word written and suddenly there’s that freaking deadline starting you in the face (not to mention the contract you signed in your filing cabinet). That’s when the panic mode sits in, you pull out the coffee and get really inspired for a few weeks of 24/7 applying butt to chair.

Fortunately, I have a super-duper editor who lets me bother her by email 50 times a week, send in ten thousand synopsis versions for a simple novella and–most importantly–lets me write the story that finally forms with few boundaries to hold back my imagination. I feel so blessed to be doing what I love!

And as for the losing your mind part. Well, lost mine years ago. If anyone wants to fork over a brain, please send it my way, LOL.

Hugs to you. And can’t wait to see the piccies from Bergdorfs!

]]> By: Hilary http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2007/11/14/rushed-or-crushed/comment-page-1/#comment-4557 Hilary Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:53:27 +0000 http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2007/11/14/rushed-or-crushed/#comment-4557 OK, one last post for Linda B. We have to, absolutely have to, take over a ballroom at the next RWA, turn up the music, and everybody do their individual, nobody's-watching, scare-the-dog, I-am-happy dance! OK, one last post for Linda B. We have to, absolutely have to, take over a ballroom at the next RWA, turn up the music, and everybody do their individual, nobody’s-watching, scare-the-dog, I-am-happy dance!

]]> By: Hilary http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2007/11/14/rushed-or-crushed/comment-page-1/#comment-4556 Hilary Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:50:34 +0000 http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2007/11/14/rushed-or-crushed/#comment-4556 Anybody checking in late or from another time zone will get an answer from me tomorrow. Not fair otherwise. Long, long ago, yours truly was a bespectacled, annoying little stickler for fairness because (a) I couldn't see the ball, let alone the thick white lines painted on the playground and (b) I was a knobby-kneed runt. Anyway, for today, I'm done. I pretty much got an answer to my question and it touched me. You do it because your heart's in it. Big awwww. Love ya. Anybody checking in late or from another time zone will get an answer from me tomorrow. Not fair otherwise. Long, long ago, yours truly was a bespectacled, annoying little stickler for fairness because (a) I couldn’t see the ball, let alone the thick white lines painted on the playground and (b) I was a knobby-kneed runt.

Anyway, for today, I’m done. I pretty much got an answer to my question and it touched me. You do it because your heart’s in it. Big awwww. Love ya.

]]> By: Phyliss http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2007/11/14/rushed-or-crushed/comment-page-1/#comment-4554 Phyliss Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:19:56 +0000 http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2007/11/14/rushed-or-crushed/#comment-4554 Hilary, if Bergdorf’s Christmas windows are even half as pretty as they were last year, they must be fabulous! Last December, I saw my first live model as we walked down 5th Avenue and man he didn't have any more clothes on than the nude manniquins you're talkin' about! WOW for NYC and Christmas! Hilary, if Bergdorf’s Christmas windows are even half as pretty as they were last year, they must be fabulous! Last December, I saw my first live model as we walked down 5th Avenue and man he didn’t have any more clothes on than the nude manniquins you’re talkin’ about! WOW for NYC and Christmas!

]]> By: Linda Broday http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2007/11/14/rushed-or-crushed/comment-page-1/#comment-4553 Linda Broday Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:25:01 +0000 http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2007/11/14/rushed-or-crushed/#comment-4553 Hi Hilary! Love your topic because it's one that I can relate to in a lot of ways. Sure, there's so much pressure to produce a good story and make my deadline, but it's the pressure that keeps driving me to reach higher and further. The rewards I reap in the end make every minute in front of my computer very worthwhile. Writers pour out their hearts and souls and think they have nothing more to give, but then the words just keep coming. It's a give and take situation. Often it seems that the getting back portion is much bigger than the giving and that makes this job the best in the whole world. I can't imagine ever not wanting to write. The characters in my head won't let me stop. And when I finish a manuscript and turn it in, I do a little dance all around the house and tell everyone who'll listen and some who won't. Then, I start to work on something new. No laying around and doing nothing. I have to create! A big hello from another Texas author! :smile: Have a great day. Hi Hilary! Love your topic because it’s one that I can relate to in a lot of ways. Sure, there’s so much pressure to produce a good story and make my deadline, but it’s the pressure that keeps driving me to reach higher and further. The rewards I reap in the end make every minute in front of my computer very worthwhile. Writers pour out their hearts and souls and think they have nothing more to give, but then the words just keep coming. It’s a give and take situation. Often it seems that the getting back portion is much bigger than the giving and that makes this job the best in the whole world. I can’t imagine ever not wanting to write. The characters in my head won’t let me stop.

And when I finish a manuscript and turn it in, I do a little dance all around the house and tell everyone who’ll listen and some who won’t. Then, I start to work on something new. No laying around and doing nothing. I have to create!

A big hello from another Texas author! :smile:
Have a great day.

]]> By: Hilary http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2007/11/14/rushed-or-crushed/comment-page-1/#comment-4552 Hilary Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:09:01 +0000 http://www.bravaauthors.com/blog/2007/11/14/rushed-or-crushed/#comment-4552 Forgot to say hi to Kim! Slow roll, sounds good. Sounds like a cake, in fact. Hey, am going out to buy Jami Oliver's new cookbook. He is soooo cute and I like the way he throws food around. Forgot to say hi to Kim! Slow roll, sounds good. Sounds like a cake, in fact. Hey, am going out to buy Jami Oliver’s new cookbook. He is soooo cute and I like the way he throws food around.

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