Being sick sucks. I've spent most of the day curled up with my youngest son in bed watching Fairy Tale or reading. I've had a lot going on for the past couple of weeks and now, whether I wanted to or not, I'm taking time out to smell the roses--or in this case turn the pages (I can't smell--I'm too stuffed up).
Again--and I can't stress this enough--to be a good writer, you have to be a good reader. It was enjoyable (and I think productive) to go back over a few old favorites.
When I kick the Kleenex and Halls addiction (acute bronchitis) I will get back in the saddle feeling a bit more confident.
Best of luck to all playing this weekend's ESO Beta!
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Molly Jones Complete
So after six years of writing the Molly Jones series, it's finally done. I'm a bit sad as I feel that it's sort of an end of an era. I don't know what I'll be doing next as far as writing projects go and while I intend to keep my profile up on deviantArt and check in with The Bards College now and then, I don't know when I'll using the platform in the way I used to. I really think something was lost when they changed up the site all those years ago and I'm not sure how active people are actually using deviantArt, at least as far as literature content goes. I've started uploading my old work to Archive of Our Own. My works can be found here: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Lesliewifeofbath/works
What Comes Next
So it's been a year and a half since I last turned in a chapter Oh, my poor Molly Jones...
I would really like to finish the next few chapters and then end the series with an epilogue. But I am not sure how that would work. I am not the same person that started the project... and it's been so long since I have written anything. The question that I have been dreading to ask is can I still write? Or worse, do I still want to?
I don't know. I have been bitching for a year about writers block...I've given myself tons of motivational speeches, but nothing really comes of it. I blame really good TV. Or, I would if somehow my eyes were proppe
On Letting Go
“Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.” ― Cheryl Strayed
Being a Consumer
Welp, right now I am being a consumer rather than a creator. Also, deciding if my works are good enough to turn something else, though I have no idea of where I would begin with that. Not to offend any of her fans, but I'm not trying to follow E.L. James, or at least not her writing style--it's garbage (but exceedingly profitable). Jesus, the thought of that is painful. But I would like to do something profitable, that goes beyond the sheer joy of creating.
Could I turn my works into something that goes beyond the fan-based?
It's something I am seriously pondering.
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Wouldn't it be nice to be just a little bit sick, enough to stay at home for a week but not so much it completely wiped you out? All the reading I could do then! Get well soon and enjoy whatever you can.