Tag: Coffee

Writing Anxiety

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I love my job…but…I hate starting to write.

Not because I hate writing, but because I am constantly trying to overcome my fear.

Most of the time I approach writing with a knot in my stomach, a distracted buzzing in my brain, and dread in my heart.

And yet, most days, I force myself to write. Most days I really enjoy it once I get into some kind of flow. Almost always, I end up feeling better for having done it.

My favorite Dorothy Parker quote is, “I hate writing, I love having written.”

It’s nice to know I’m not alone.

But you’d think, after all this time, the process would get easier. Instead it feels harder with the added pressure of trying to meet the expectations of readers.

Writing this post is a form of procrastination. It allows me to feel productive, when really I’m just avoiding writing new chapters. I guess that means I should go write now.

Or maybe I’ll take a nap…a nap might help.

Or maybe I’ll go for a walk…a walk could help.

Or maybe I’ll make some more coffee…coffee helps.

**I’m not JUST complaining today. I’m finishing up the copy edits for ONE WOMAN’S JUNK and later I’ll actually be adding words to Hitwoman 21…just no guarantees they’ll be “good” words.  😉

 

 

 

Magical Binder of Accomplishment

I’ve printed out the manuscript for ONE WOMAN’S JUNK in preparation to make the (hopefully) last pass of story edits.

I’ve put the pages in my big, shiny binder (after somehow massacring the job I did of three-hole-punching) and have started scribbling on them.

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((Hmmm, the photo makes it look like sand, which is fitting for a book that’s set in a beach town, but in person it’s more like gold glitter.)

This is my process…gold glitter binder, paper and purple ink.  Also hot pink Post-It notes  with random questions and the occassional index card meant to remind me of why I’m doing what I’m doing.

I’d planned on taking the lot to my favorite coffee shop to work on, but it’s been raining for hours, so I stayed home and worked at my desk, where my view could only be described as dreary.

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Also appropriate considering the book begins on a stormy night…..

C is for Coffee — A-Z Challenge

A long time ago I had business cards which said, “I don’t care if the cup is half full or half empty, I just want to know if it’s regular or decaf!”

That still pretty much sums up my life motto, lol.

Needless to say, I’m a coffee drinker.

If you FOLLOW ME ON INSTAGRAM you’ll see it’s one of my recurring themes and you’ll be able to see what else I enjoy in my 100 Days of Happy challenge.

“C” also reminds me of  THE HITWOMAN AND THE CHUBBY CHERUB which opens with one of my favorite opening lines:

“You just know it’s going to be a bad day when you open an envelope filled with glitter. That shit gets everywhere.”

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Love and Murder are in the air.

In years past, Maggie Lee has not been a fan of Valentine’s Day, but this year, the holiday has warped into its own special hell.

She’s stuck working at her aunt’s lingerie shop during the busiest (and cheesiest) time of the year, someone volunteered her to help with the Valentine’s Day party at her niece’s school, and there’s a hitman in town, known as the Cupid Killer.

Maggie is up to her eyeballs in declarations of love, sex toys, and candy hearts, when all she really wants is to chase down leads pertaining to her missing sister.

Can Maggie survive a guy with a bow and arrow, the pain in the butt parents of school kids, and a romantic proposal?

Or will she succumb to her favorite fantasy?

The one where she runs away with her pets.

 

Coffee and writing

I’m writing and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting  a pivotal scene in the 20th story in the CONFESSIONS OF A SLIGHTLY NEUROTIC HITWOMAN series and I just cannot get it right.

The fact that I’m drinking too much coffee probably isn’t helping my writing process as much as I’d like to believe.

On the positive side, here’s Day 3 of my 100 Happy Days challenge….a friend just sent me the cutest socks. Obviously she knows me well, lol.

 

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