What happened to my blogs

August 6, 2018 I wrote at least two blogs about writing, but they aren't appearing here. I don't know why. Ah, I see why. This is my art blog not my writing blog. (Keep it straight will you.) There isn't anything happening in my art world so I haven't posted here in a while. Meanwhile in writing world, there is plenty that has happened. I'm working on a contemporary, inspirational romance novel that seems to be creeping along at a snails pace. Need to have more time in the seat with hands on keyboard and less time in the seat playing on the computer or checking email, etc. Outside, it is raining with sounds of thunder rumbling. Such a nice sound. We've needed the rain.

Stuck in Writing World

May 28, 2018 So I'm stuck in writing world and have been for months. What used to come as a downpour has become a trickle. Two days ago I wrote 400 plus words. I was so thrilled. I feel like I'm walking on ice--afraid to take the next step because it may lead to a fall, but how will I know it will cause me to fall unless I take that step and inch my way along? Writing like this--scared writing--is not fun. I need to get back to the story, but am afraid. Fear is keeping me from writing and the thrill of discovery. In the meantime, I'm working on a revision of a work that was edited by Laurie Kuna of Mid-Michigan Romance Writers Association. She gave me very good feedback. I feel like I need to go eat something--just don't want to deal with this feeling of fear of writing and all it entails.

Writing

Has it really been two years since I posted here on my blog? Goodness gracious! Time does fly whether or not one is having fun. As an artist, I find myself at a loss for creating art. I'm much better at buying it now and am putting other artist's work on my walls. My most recent acquisition was from Thimgan Hayden, a realist painter from Michigan. I bought "Winter Colors" from her. It is a work she painted looking out the dinning room window in her home. Thank you Thimgan Hayden for creating such beautiful work. It gives me much joy to look at it each day. Well, I started this blog with the title of Writing and have yet to talk about that. For the past two years I've been working on writing romances. It has been fun. No, I'm not published as of yet. Now I find with this latest work that I am stuck. I'm trying to write a Christian romance and have hit a spot where one of my characters has rejected the other's love proposal. Well that threw me for a loop and I haven't recovered as of yet. There are so many other excuses I could use as to why I am stuck, but this one seems as good as any. A writer friend asked me how much time I'm spending in front of the computer screen with this work. Not enough. I'm a panster--writing by the seat of my pants. I don't plot out my work first and so now that I'm facing a wall in my writing instead of looking to the left and right to see a way around the wall I'm left facing it, wondering how I got there and what to do. I wish there was an easy answer to my dilemma. There is one. Reread what I've written thus far and go from there. Ah and now the excuses. I have a headache. I really do and just don't want to put that much effort into what I'm writing right now...and so it goes.