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Thursday, May 1, 2014

IWSG: Blah Blah Blah

IWSG
1st Wednesday of the month is Insecure Writers Support Group. It’s a blog hop where you post about the joys and difficulties of being a writer.

I've not made as much novel progress as I hoped this month. Partly because my job has become a bit busy and I've been exhausted. So I come home, putz around on Pinterest, staring at pictures of pretty people and then I watch three episodes of The Tudors on Netflix which I've finally gotten around to watching. I loathe it, but I cannot stop watching it (and complaining about it).

I really like to complain about it. My husband hasn't watched one minute but he could tell you everything about it. I haven't been this happy to be annoyed since I binge-watched Bridezillas. 

I digress. I had a fantastic ten page critique by professional editor Teresa Crumpton and she gave me wonderful advice. She taught me many things, all of which slowed my editing to a crawl. It turns out it was a lot easier just writing whatever dreck came to mind rather crafting sentences that pop and figuring out how to start paragraphs without -ing verbs.

So after editing my -ings and extra verbs today, I got bored. Then I spent the evening reading bad reviews of cheesy photo studios. I'm counting it as research into my hero's career and not at all the whim of an ADHD woman who loves reading horrible reviews.

That's it. No glaring successes. No true failures. My novel isn't progressing as fast as I need it to. I vowed to finish it by the end of summer but it's only half written. Ah well.






 

5 comments:

  1. Cheesy photo studios? That's funny.
    I see you got the jump on next week's IWSG post. Welcome!

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    1. Doh! I thought it was this week. Ahahahaha, I'm a silly girl.Thanks Alex!

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    2. I wondered why no one else had an IWSG post when I started blog hopping. I thought the A-Z challenge was at fault.

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  2. Hi Christina,
    Thanks for stopping by my blog and commenting. I appreciate it! I understand: it's so easy to caught up in life and then blow off our "real work" in favor of mind-numbing tasks. I'm guilty of the Pinterest addiction to. As for watching shows, I avoid them. I know what happens when I say, "Oh, just ONE episode of Dr. Who. I swear!"
    Right.
    Best of luck in your edits! Nice to meet you!
    Jen (new follower)

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    1. Hi Jennifer! Thanks for stopping by. Pinterest is the best and worst, isn't it? I don't think I've ever just watched one episode of Doctor Who either.

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