Thursday, February 25, 2010
Snowy Day....
I used to laugh when I watched movies that had authors writing in snowy or rainy backgrounds. I always wondered what it was about the weather that made authors want to enclose themselves with a glass of wine and start scribbling away. The most memorable scene out of a movie for me was "Misery". No, it wasn't watching Kathy Bate's psychotic tirade against poor James Caan's feet. It was watching James Caan's character sitting at his typewriter, with his bottle of champagne and cigarette on a dish, writing away the final book in the "Misery Series" that finally answered that question for me about two years ago.
The snow creates this atmosphere that for me shuts the world down. The only time that you could finally hear all those creative thoughts roaming in your head. In those precious moments of of creativity you don't want to loose a single one of them so you sit at your computer and just start pouring your heart out.
Even though my first manuscript hasn't been printed or picked up, I'm sitting here today with the snow falling quietly behind me and adding more words to my second manuscript. I was inspired about two months ago to start over and begin writing again. I'm so taken away by how much of a passion writing is for me. The moment something hits me or I'm inspired, I scribble it down on a paper or a pad I carry with me. Then when I'm at the computer the words just seem to flow right out of me. I admire writers of the past who had a quill and a thin sheet of parchment and wrote novels after novels because as much as I love writing, my computer is my best friend when it comes to writing things down.
Anyway, on to more writing....till then
The snow creates this atmosphere that for me shuts the world down. The only time that you could finally hear all those creative thoughts roaming in your head. In those precious moments of of creativity you don't want to loose a single one of them so you sit at your computer and just start pouring your heart out.
Even though my first manuscript hasn't been printed or picked up, I'm sitting here today with the snow falling quietly behind me and adding more words to my second manuscript. I was inspired about two months ago to start over and begin writing again. I'm so taken away by how much of a passion writing is for me. The moment something hits me or I'm inspired, I scribble it down on a paper or a pad I carry with me. Then when I'm at the computer the words just seem to flow right out of me. I admire writers of the past who had a quill and a thin sheet of parchment and wrote novels after novels because as much as I love writing, my computer is my best friend when it comes to writing things down.
Anyway, on to more writing....till then
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
My First Post
It's funny but I really never thought of myself as the "modern day blogger." Honestly, I just graduated from the "University of Twitter." LOL! And so it is, that I sit here now writing you my first entry into the "bloggersphere." Weird but life is kind of like that too.
Never in a million years did I ever think or imagine that I would write a book. My passion was for reading and reading only. I dreaded in school when assignments were given out that required a writing assignment. I absolutely loathed research papers and then life threw me a curve ball.
As the result of a broken heart (3 times to be exact)...I decided to keep a journal in order to unleash my emotions and thoughts. What started out as a way to keep me entertained at work became a nightly ritual. Three years later it's the masterpiece (....yes I consider it to be up there along with Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf...LOL!) that sits in front of me, the picture above. 300 plus beautiful pages of the puzzle pieces I call my life.
I truly want to share my story with other people who have been in my shoes, or currently are. It's been quite a difficult task trying to get an agent as I am still looking for one. Then I've considered the self publishing venue but it's a bit too pricey for me. I seriously thought that writing and completing my manuscript would be the hardest thing but the search for representation has.
So here I am hoping that along the way I get to entertain you and take you with me on this journey to share my story.
Catherine
Never in a million years did I ever think or imagine that I would write a book. My passion was for reading and reading only. I dreaded in school when assignments were given out that required a writing assignment. I absolutely loathed research papers and then life threw me a curve ball.
As the result of a broken heart (3 times to be exact)...I decided to keep a journal in order to unleash my emotions and thoughts. What started out as a way to keep me entertained at work became a nightly ritual. Three years later it's the masterpiece (....yes I consider it to be up there along with Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf...LOL!) that sits in front of me, the picture above. 300 plus beautiful pages of the puzzle pieces I call my life.
I truly want to share my story with other people who have been in my shoes, or currently are. It's been quite a difficult task trying to get an agent as I am still looking for one. Then I've considered the self publishing venue but it's a bit too pricey for me. I seriously thought that writing and completing my manuscript would be the hardest thing but the search for representation has.
So here I am hoping that along the way I get to entertain you and take you with me on this journey to share my story.
Catherine
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