When Stephen King's book On writing came out way back in 2002, I gobbled it up like a hungry child. I mean this is Stephen King we are talking about, the be all to end all! If he's talking, and your a writer, listen! I am only 95 pages into it now for the second time, and I love it to smithereens!
I forgot to mention I finished J.K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy, it was what I call a slice of life story...or a true to life story. Very real worldish. I loved it. It made me laugh and cry. It was like being a fly on the wall and peeking into everyone's lives without them knowing it. and who doesn't want to do that? Right?
And my copy of The 100 Year Old Man who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared arrived. I'll start that later, right now I'm into On Writing.
He starts the book by letting us know early on that it isn't an autobiography, but there is an awful lot of his life in there. Maybe not a complete autobiography but a good glimpse into his life. It's certainly interesting seeing how his fame came about. He writes the book not like it's a chore, but rather like the reader and himself are sitting down to tea and he's having a conversation with you. Very casual and chatty, but not too chatty that it's annoying. I think knowing Stephen King's fame now makes it hard to believe he struggled to get published so it's a real breath of fresh-air to know that he struggled too. Not that I want anyone to struggle, but you know what I mean, right?
One of the things in this book that he says is to never write for the money, but write because you love it. I know someone who tries to write according to what is the 'in thing', and that baffles me. I am NOT into vampires, although that is all the rage right now, but I am not going to try to write something I don't like because that would be easier to get accepted in this vampire-induced world. Write what you love! and most importantly write because you love to write, not because you are hoping that there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
With that being said Of course I'm hoping to get published someday ;)
If not then so be it...I'm getting free therapy sessions out of it.
I'm actually in the writing mood tonight, so I'm going to hit 'publish', and let this out into the Wild Wacky Woo-universe (that's what www stands for, right? Right?...yeah I thought so.)
~R
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Friday, March 15, 2013
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
March Break, writing (or lack of), sleep debt, and The Casual Vacancy
Hi and welcome. :)
It has been raining here like crazy today, but the cold is gone, somewhat. I hear we are in for another snow storm next week though, so I'm not packing the boots away yet. I'm a winter girl though, to be honest. It gives me the perfect excuse to stay inside and write. Seems more acceptable to be a hermit in the winter doesn't it?
It's march break right now, which, for me, means not a whole lot of writing is getting done. That's one of the draw-backs of having office-space upstairs, but I'm coping. I do have an alphasmart I could use, but I prefer the quietness of my office. I get a couple of hours in the evening, but lately I find that as soon as I am in front of the computer I can't seem to keep my eyes open.
My husband is an early to bed and early to rise kind of guy, and he has been telling me for the past 16 years that my sleep pattern is going to catch up to me. every headache, or ache he attributes to my sleeping. But I mean come on it is hard to teach an old dog new tricks, and I have been a night owl my whole life...and I do mean My WHOLE life. In this town if you ask anyone about the 'Amero's" sleeping pattern they can all tell you we are night owls...I could not even fathom going to bed before midnight. that just seems insane to me, I mean why go to bed and waste the best part of your day...er night...morning (whatever).
but the truth is my lifestyle is not working for me anymore, maybe it's because after 16 years of living with this man he's rubbed off on me, but I find myself staying up late and then barely able to function in the mornings, and if I set down quietly, or put on the TV I'm out like a light bulb. I refuse to attribute this to my age, so for now I'm blaming it on him. So I mention to him about my inability to stay awake and difficulty staying focused and he, as I suspected, blamed it on lack of sleep and then he shows me this link, and I'm starting to think he's on to something. So this march break I'm in bed by 10pm every night and sleeping until one of two things happens 1)I wake up naturally, or 2) My youngest son wakes up. So far I've been like clockwork, waking up at 7am every morning with just enough time to take the dog out to pee before my son wakes up. So right now I'm in the process of paying off my sleep debt! Let's hope this works...I'm tired of being tired.
On another note I'm into J. K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy and despite the fact that the book really sounds snore worthy IMO, I am riveted!!! This woman can write. And her characterization is just out-of-this-world unbelievable. trying to get it finished quickly because I have Jonas Jonasson's The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared on the way. Have any of you read either of these books?
~R
It has been raining here like crazy today, but the cold is gone, somewhat. I hear we are in for another snow storm next week though, so I'm not packing the boots away yet. I'm a winter girl though, to be honest. It gives me the perfect excuse to stay inside and write. Seems more acceptable to be a hermit in the winter doesn't it?
It's march break right now, which, for me, means not a whole lot of writing is getting done. That's one of the draw-backs of having office-space upstairs, but I'm coping. I do have an alphasmart I could use, but I prefer the quietness of my office. I get a couple of hours in the evening, but lately I find that as soon as I am in front of the computer I can't seem to keep my eyes open.
My husband is an early to bed and early to rise kind of guy, and he has been telling me for the past 16 years that my sleep pattern is going to catch up to me. every headache, or ache he attributes to my sleeping. But I mean come on it is hard to teach an old dog new tricks, and I have been a night owl my whole life...and I do mean My WHOLE life. In this town if you ask anyone about the 'Amero's" sleeping pattern they can all tell you we are night owls...I could not even fathom going to bed before midnight. that just seems insane to me, I mean why go to bed and waste the best part of your day...er night...morning (whatever).
but the truth is my lifestyle is not working for me anymore, maybe it's because after 16 years of living with this man he's rubbed off on me, but I find myself staying up late and then barely able to function in the mornings, and if I set down quietly, or put on the TV I'm out like a light bulb. I refuse to attribute this to my age, so for now I'm blaming it on him. So I mention to him about my inability to stay awake and difficulty staying focused and he, as I suspected, blamed it on lack of sleep and then he shows me this link, and I'm starting to think he's on to something. So this march break I'm in bed by 10pm every night and sleeping until one of two things happens 1)I wake up naturally, or 2) My youngest son wakes up. So far I've been like clockwork, waking up at 7am every morning with just enough time to take the dog out to pee before my son wakes up. So right now I'm in the process of paying off my sleep debt! Let's hope this works...I'm tired of being tired.
On another note I'm into J. K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy and despite the fact that the book really sounds snore worthy IMO, I am riveted!!! This woman can write. And her characterization is just out-of-this-world unbelievable. trying to get it finished quickly because I have Jonas Jonasson's The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared on the way. Have any of you read either of these books?
~R
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