Jo's comments
(member since Apr 23, 2009)
Jo's comments from the A WEDNESDAY SISTERS Tea and Talk group.
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Meg, it's taken me quite some time to get used to green tea's & some are just plain yucky! I recommend Celestial Seasonings Green Tea & Decaf Green Tea. Very nice flavor, more like black tea.
Meg, thank you so much for sharing some of your writing process. I find it inspiring! The journal/scrapbook idea is something I would never have thought to do in a million years for my characters - though I do it for myself!
I've enjoyed the chats and thank you again for doing this!
All my best-
Jo
I am SO SORRY I missed today's chat! Memorial Day has me thinking today is Tuesday & I ran some errands late this am & just got home. I'm so disappointed!
David wrote: "Sorry I missed out on the conversation! Looks like everybody had a good time, though."Yes, it was another great chat! Hope you can join us next week!
Cyndi wrote: "OMG! Jo, is it today?????"No, tomorrow!
Cyndi wrote: "YAY! Keeping my fingers crossed!Jo, you won last week!! Its my turn! :)"
My fingers are crossed for ya!
Sorry, UPS just delivered a bday package from a bff and I got distracted! lol
Meg wrote: ">I'm learning to get rid of the "I should"'s and not feeling bad about them! This can be so hard, too. Esp when you have people depending on you. I don't know how many great women writers have be..."
True, I know it's hard! I don't have a problem saying no in most cases.
Cyndi wrote: "Reading was my escape from my childhood. I am so lucky to have my aunts to thank for that."I have my Aunt to thank for my love of reading too! And my Hubby is an avid reader!
Meg wrote: ">I think both my son and hubby would go into shock if they couldn't watch tv. I know. We have new tv, with cable and no little switch I can turn. Too bad!"
My Hubby could care less if we have cable! I'm the one who cares!
I'm learning to get rid of the "I should"'s and not feeling bad about them!
Meg wrote, "Funny story on that: when I first started writing, we moved to a horse farm outside Baltimore, and although we had an antennae, we never could get our tv to work, so we got out of any habit we might have had, and my sons never got in to it. As the movers were boxing things up a few years later to move us to Nashville, we found a little switch on the back of the tv that was turned to "cable" rather than "antennae." One of the many writing life blessing I've lucked into."I love that!
My mind wanders too! (I've never been good with meditating).
Meg wrote: "On the clearing things out of the way to make time thing, one of the things I do is hold my writing time sacred. I don't answer the phone when I'm writing (although I do listen to the machine to ma..."Very good points as well! I don't think we do this enough when it comes to what we deem important in our own lives. I make the time for gardening but I lack making the time for other things. (Shaking my head at myself now).
Cyndi wrote: "My husband is taking over all duties tonight, while I go into SF with a girlfriend. Little does he know, he'll be doing the same in a couple weeks (I'm hoping to come to Clayton for your reading!). "Fantastic! Enjoy!
Meg wrote: "I don't, for example, tolerate men who think anything is "women's work." My hubby - who really is terrific - does the laundry, among other things. I think one of the things many women do is take on..."I'm not a fan of that attitude either and thankfully I have a great Hubby too who has no qualms about stepping in if I'm unable to clean, do dishes or do laundry, etc. (I do the majority of it because he works both a full time and part time job and I don't work).
Meg wrote: "> For me, it's really important to clear away the things..."SO TRUE!
Meg wrote: ">since I'm not a writerWait! You just said you write in your journal, didn't you, Cyndi? Isn't that writing?"
It is on my book, no pun intended!
Meg wrote: "I had a newborn and a two-year-old when I started writing, and I remember thinking how impossible that was going to be. But then one of my early mentors was a writer with four kids who also worked ..."Thank you for sharing that - it helps us to see that when you want to do something, you can regardless of all else.
Meg wrote: "> I've been there for birthday parties and I can't imagine writing while sitting there!Motherhood does drive us to find amazing resources we didn't know we had."
So does illness and abusive relationships! (My side observation on that, lol!)
Meg, The Wednesday Sister's is set against the background and 'soundtrack' of the 1960's ~ do you think the time frames of the 80's, 90's or 2000's have the same potential for a story to be set against them?
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