writing
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While Table Six is still my number one big goal, I need a little something to pump up the motivation and excitement level a smidge. That internal editor is working nonstop to go back and erase and rewrite all of chapter one that I’ve written and I need her to cut the shit, so I’ve
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I’ve always been a pantser. A story will come along and if it’s a short story, I’ll sit there and write the entire thing down and watch as it bends and twists into whatever it’s going to be. I’m usually quite surprised at the end. But a novel is a whole different beast and I
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I’m sitting here trying to put words to a story on pause in my mind, so I’m scrolling through pictures to give it a jump, but found this instead. GISHWHES was the best. I always left it so hyped up and exhausted, but the inspiration would be flow among the wake of that creative storm.
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So, I had been working on a gothic novel for my graduate thesis, and it got put away for a while. At first, I thought maybe it was from the burnout. I had worked on this thing for so long, thought about it constantly, and ended up with the first five chapters completely polished, topped
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Summer has slipped through my fingers and here we are in my favorite month of the year, October. It’s where we have a handle on the schedule for the school year, it’s cooling off, the mosquitos and others have gone back to where they belong, and I’m at a much less risk of getting a
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This is such a silly thing, but I figure since this is a whole blog/website-thing dedicated to my writing, it’s probably not such a strange topic. I played with the idea of using one for a long time and would go back and forth with trying to figure out one that felt right, and then
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It’s been busy over this way, but for all the sleepiness, the planning, the running around and figuring out new routines that change from week to week, I’m enjoying our summer. For a bit there was getting upset about the lack of writing time. That was, until I finished the most recent book I was
Lindsay Gurka 