Showing posts with label Just Do It. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Just Do It. Show all posts

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Just Do It!


I spend waaayyy too much time thinking. Analyzing so that I don't waste time or words. I've wasted the last month worrying and analyzing how my book would change or how to make it bigger and I haven't even finished it yet! Sheesh. Does anyone else have this problem? Probably.

I need a Nike T-shirt to remind me to JUST DO IT! BUCHOK!

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Joie de Vive

Michael Malone posted this video on his site and I think it qualifies for my Joie de Vive category. Gary Vaynerchuk is passionate about people doing what they love and taking responsibility for getting it done. No easy answers. Michael you may have created a monster, I took Friday and Saturday off...

Do yourself a favor watch this video a couple times a month, at least.

Monday, May 12, 2008

Epiphany

Yes, I had one last week. I'm trying to get MOL revised to send off a partial.




Uh-huh, I've been stuck for several weeks, feeling like I'd never move past it, that it was something systemic in my writing ability. Or maybe I'd just lost the desire to write. But that wasn't it.

I knew something was bugging me about the plot. I'd decided to move on to something new for May and come back to it, but it kept calling to me in this mean little whisper, get it done, get it done, get it done. I knew the voice was right but what was wrong?

Finally, during one of the lessons from Angela Knight's workshop, I realized what it was. The actions of the main characters needed a minor rewrite in the second chapter to make the conflict and motivations work.

So, the cat's unstuck and I'm back on the job this week in between helping Rae Monet design my new website. (Mine was so amateurish - designed myself with the help of my Mac.)

My goal is to get the minor alterations made to the first 50 pages, and get them revised by end of the first week in June. Work on synopsis and query and get that sucker sent off by the third week in June. There's that voice again, I will submit, I will submit, I will submit.

My CP, Leah Bremael has already submitted three manuscripts! That's just fabulous!

So to use two cliches I'll 'Feel the Fear' and 'Just Do It.'