I have news.
No, I didn't get a book deal.
Or a movie deal.
Or acquire my first blog follower. Stop trying to make me feel like a huge loser.
I am, however, spending the next four months in India, which is pretty cool, even though most of my not-in-space-or-with-dragons story ideas take place in Africa. I'll go to Africa some other time.
In between shots, and travel plans, and being told I have to go somewhere else to get the next shot (who knows where), and packing, and wishing my visa would arrive already, I keep wondering about how this will fit in with writing.
I suspect the answer is that it won't.
Oh, I'll keep a journal, of course, since apparently one is required. (Reminds me, I was working on a post about journaling. Must finish that.) But I have a very strong feeling that I will not keep up with my commitment to spend some time working on either my novel or a screenplay each day (all depends on which project I've most recently decided is a completely hopeless case).
I'm a little depressed about this prospect, since I spent so many years putting off my writing career and only recently sat down and made myself get started.
I particularly wanted to participate in National Novel Writing Month this November, and I really, really doubt that's going to happen.
Still, it's all material, right?
Meanwhile, other people out there are writing, and you should get to know them. In particular, the Princess Scribe, whose review of Cowboys and Aliens is hilarious.
No, I didn't get a book deal.
Or a movie deal.
Or acquire my first blog follower. Stop trying to make me feel like a huge loser.
I am, however, spending the next four months in India, which is pretty cool, even though most of my not-in-space-or-with-dragons story ideas take place in Africa. I'll go to Africa some other time.
In between shots, and travel plans, and being told I have to go somewhere else to get the next shot (who knows where), and packing, and wishing my visa would arrive already, I keep wondering about how this will fit in with writing.
I suspect the answer is that it won't.
Oh, I'll keep a journal, of course, since apparently one is required. (Reminds me, I was working on a post about journaling. Must finish that.) But I have a very strong feeling that I will not keep up with my commitment to spend some time working on either my novel or a screenplay each day (all depends on which project I've most recently decided is a completely hopeless case).
I'm a little depressed about this prospect, since I spent so many years putting off my writing career and only recently sat down and made myself get started.
I particularly wanted to participate in National Novel Writing Month this November, and I really, really doubt that's going to happen.
Still, it's all material, right?
Meanwhile, other people out there are writing, and you should get to know them. In particular, the Princess Scribe, whose review of Cowboys and Aliens is hilarious.
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