It's Been Almost A Year...and THIS IS ALL THE FURTHER I AM?!?

"I keep waiting for you to write your book(s)", says my beloved Grizz to me one day as I am trying to explain to him the way that I move within  MY creative process.      

So I continue to paint a picture for him as to why I can't just sit down and slam something out.  Or why, when I wrote for newspapers in Arizona, it use to take me hours just to get one column finished.    

His eyes glaze over.....

He says that he understands but then confirms to me that he really doesn't "get" the creative process.  "Why don't you keep little notebooks with you and around the house and car like you did in Arizona?   That will help, won't it?"   (His understanding means that he loves me, believes in me, and will just continue to wait.)




My eyes glaze over...

Thankfully, I have been confirmed over and over again by other writers, that what I do in the way of how I craft my columns and stories...IS NORMAL.   

NORRRRR-MAAAAL...    NOR-MAL.  NORMAL.  

 

Excuse me.   I've been told that the overuse of exclamation marks makes one sound ANGRY.   Especially those of or with Italian heritage.   Seriously.     

YA THINK?!?  

Okay.   So not only does my husband not "get it", but neither do most people.    

I secretly think that is how Critics are born.   They are "word and grammar smart" but don't get "how" it's done; therefore they're critical.   

 

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

I began this blog almost a year ago.   And yes, this is all the further I have gotten.   
 
Lord knows that I wanted to write more than I have, but I don't juggle life in my particular fast lane very well while trying to get my thoughts out and down in an intelligible form while rocketing through life at a thousand miles an hour with my hair on fire!   Somehow I'm not good at that.  

(Excuse that exclamation mark up there.   I'm not angry.   Just exasperated.)

So here we are.  (I'm just assuming that there's someone else here besides my dogs.)   

Ready to launch into a new year of blogging.   And yes, I realize that the first month of the year is almost over. (Please feel free to refresh yourself with what I said a paragraph or so before.)

I already know that this year is going to be a WILD RIDE.   

And there will be many exclamation marks!!!! 

I'm ready to go.   Are you?

Putting More Giddy-Up In My Giddy-Up-Go,

Patti