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News, News, News!!!

Happy Monday, everyone! If you are one of the wonderful readers who've been missing Motivational Mondays' little November hiatus, fear not! Motivational Mondays are nearly back and will be over at Plot Mamas! Which leads me to the next piece of news…

I'm giving my weblog a makeover! The wardrobe and make-up have all been selected, up-do created. It will debut December 3rd! And coming shortly after…

Irish Moon, my historical fantasy re-release is in final galleys and due to arrive on December 10th!!

Thanks to everyone who attended Scottsdale Civic Library's Annual Fall Workshops. I had a blast! Also, thanks to all the friendly faces who came out to Borders Friday for the signing. It was a huge success!

:}Amber Scott

P.S. If you missed Saturday's "Effective eBuzz" workshop, check out 1st Turning Point today for all the content highlights.

Filed under: Hump Day Updates, Miscellaneous, Motivational Mondays

10 Things You Didn't Know…Gini Koch!

If you're new to my Friday theme here, it's all about how I stalk. I package it in a pretty ribbon called PPIF (Project Pay It Forward), but honestly, it's an excuse to fan drool. I've conned my favorite of all, Gini Koch into my latest game.  Take it away, Gini!

GK: Huh. I was all over this plan of Amber's until I thought about it a little. My life's an open book, I have very few secrets that "the world" couldn't be allowed to know, so coming up with 10 things that are at least relatively unknown is kind of daunting. But let me give it a shot.

1. I took Metal Shop for 3 years. And was good at it.

And LOVED it. I was the only girl (which was a huge benefit) and I learned that there's only one thing I can't do as well or better than any guy, which is forging (which requires more upper body strength than I have). It was revelatory and eye-opening and truly the highlight of my entire school career. I also learned everything I needed to know about men, and how to handle them, in Shop class. Truly, it was the best class EVER.

When I am rich and famous I plan to have a welding studio, because I miss oxy-acetylene welding more than I'd like to admit.

2. I can gold medal in procrastination.

I like procrastination. It pays off now AND later. I'm potentially the laziest person on the planet. I can sit and play computer solitaire for HOURS and, while I'm thinking and brainstorming during that time, it's not like solitaire is getting anything done other than improving my mad card sharp skillz. How I manage to get things done is, as the hubs frequently points out, both a mystery and a miracle.

3. I hate detail work, but am considered really good at it.

I actually know how I got this rep. I hate, HATE, having to redo things, especially things I hate doing. Writing? Oh, I'll revise THAT for days, weeks, years without complaint. Spreadsheets, proofreading marketing materials, etc.? Not so much. I'm the pickiest, most alert person out there if I'm not interested, because I only want to deal with that crap once and never have to look at it again.

4. I can also gold medal in worrying.

You know how Carolyn Crane has those guilt issues? Well, I have worry issues. Need something worried about? Just pay me to worry about it for you, because chances are good that I already AM. You go on about your business and leave all that pesky worrying to me. I gotcha covered. This includes everything from minor issues up to destruction of the known universe. Trust me, when it comes to worrying, I have you COVERED. All of you.

5. I'm the world's worst correspondent.

If you know me, and you haven't heard from me in ages, this doesn't mean I don't like you any more. It might not even mean I've lost your address, email or phone number. It just means that, as per my own special course, I haven't carved out the time to TELL you that I miss you and am thinking of you. But I am. Trust me. If you know me and I know you, I'm thinking about you. And, because it's me, I'm probably worrying about you, too.

I'm absolutely worrying that I should write to you. But then I worry that I need to send a REAL letter now, 'cause it's been so long. Or maybe I should call. But then I worry that this will be a really long call, because we have so much to catch up on, and then I worry that we both won't have the time. Or worse, we'll both feel that we HAVE to talk for hours the next time, and the cycle will start all over again. (Seriously, for those who don't believe I have their worrying covered, re-read this paragraph. I bring the worry skillz, baby, trust me.)

I used to do regular Christmas newsletters that at least meant folks heard from us once a year. Then I started writing. Correspondence conflicts with writing in every way possible. Nowadays, the only people who are guaranteed to hear from me on a very regular basis are my agent, my crit partner, and my main beta reader. Everyone else? Um, yeah, I refer you to the preceding paragraphs.

6. I have one, and only one, celebrity that can do no wrong in my eyes.

Tom Cruise. Because the hubs, swear to God, looks just like him. Ergo, to me, Tom is sacrosanct and I will not hear a word against him, no matter what he does. It's not the most brilliant policy, I'm sure, but it works for me.

Conversely, Tom is the only celebrity I literally can't use as a model for any character, because it feels like I'm using the hubs and, for whatever reason, using MY HUSBAND as a model for SOMEONE ELSE to do anything with, including merely talk to, is against my personal religion.

7. Eve ry decade I have a TV show I addict to.

But only one. The rest I can take or leave alone, but there's that "one" that I cannot resist. In the 80's it was The A-Team. In the 90's it was The Magnificent Seven. (I didn't say these shows all lasted a long time.)

In the Aught's? Well, THIS is no mystery. It's Castle. Long may it run.

8. The highlight of my childhood was getting hugged by Tigger at Disneyland.

I think I was 5, and this was well before the characters roamed the parks and posed for photo ops. No, if you were going to get to see the characters, you were going to see them in a parade or nowhere else. So a character coming over to you, breaking ranks so to speak, was a BIG deal.

I can still remember the incredible joy I felt when Tigger NOTICED ME (screaming his name like he was, for today's youth, Justin Bieber) and came over and HUGGED ME. It was a body rock side to side hug, too. A REAL hug. No celebrity or famous person I've met since has ever made me feel as thrilled as I was at that moment. Celebs come and go, but there's only one Tigger, after all.

9. I learned to sail when I was 9 years old.

I can sail anything up to 27 feet alone, though it's nice to have someone around to handle the jib. At the time, I was the youngest sailor around and would routinely beat the adults in races. (Good times…good times…) And yes, the irony is that while I love to sail (ocean sailing, preferably), I live in the desert. And I like it in the desert, so sailing doesn't happen too often these days.

10. I'm a jock.

Hard as that is to believe these days, but I not only learned to sail young (yes, kids, it IS a sport, as you who've leapt from side to side and gotten that boat to really heel over know), but I also learned to ice skate even younger. I also ran track, could pick up just about any sport in about two tries (other than surfing and golfing, both of which I leave to the professionals), took Kung Fu, did weight training, ran 10Ks and actually pondered the idea of running a "real" marathon (sanity hit before that became a real issue). I can play any racquet sport, swim, play basketball, baseball/softball, and football. Those track coaches Kitty refers to? Um, yeah, they come from my real life throughout the years.

Bonus Round:

I'm incredibly competitive.

I'm sure that comes from being a jock pretty much all my life, but I can't even play a board game without wanting and doing everything in my power to win. I CARE, baby. So, really, don't challenge me to a "friendly game" of anything. There ARE no friendly games, just games where I either win or lose. If I lose, I'm gracious. And plot how I'll beat you next time. If I win, I'm happy to let you try to beat me another time. I love the playing but I want the winning. Truly, competitive is my middle name.

The hubs mentions that this doesn't actually apply to when I play Monopoly, but he's wrong. He's only played it with me and my cousin, and she and I have a different approach to how to "win" at that game. (We like to see who can pay off in the smallest denomination bills. This, to us, is HILARIOUS. The hubs, on the other hand, doesn't see the funny in it.) If I play Monopoly with anyone OTHER than my cousin, all the rules of competition apply.

AWESOME! Okay, Gini, my favorites are your gold medals. I totally did not know those ones.

How about you, reader? Any new aha's on this list you like best?

:}Amber Scott, stalker

PS: Gini will be signing Touched By An Alien TONIGHT at Scottsdale Waterfront Borders 5pm-7pm!!

Filed under: 10 Things...5 Things..., Guest Author, Miscellaneous, P.P.I.F.

The Bookie Awards Are Coming!

I can't wait for voting to open up at Authors After Dark!!!! Where The Rain Is Made by Keta Diablo is nominated:

 

 

Yummy Delicious! Do you agree?

:}Amber Scott

 

Filed under: Miscellaneous

10 Things You Didn't Know…Carolyn Crane

As I wait with bated breath to discover when book three of Carolyn Crane's phenomenal new series will release, to tide us over here are: Ten things you didn't know about Carolyn Crane!

CC: 1. I have a boiler engineer's license.

It's actually expired now, but I carry it around anyway out of pride. LOL. My husband and I used to own a condo in this ancient building, and the city law said one resident had to have a license to operate this giant old steam boiler or the owners would have to pay all this money to a company. So my neighbor girl and I studied really hard and took the test – she was an oboist and I was a writer and neither of us were mechanically inclined, but we got an enormous amount of humor mileage out of terms like "draining the tri-cock." And we both passed the test. And we could do minor maintenance things to the boiler.

2. I secretly believe I invented the phrase 'eye candy'.

It's not documented, but I believe I invented it when I was in college. in the 1980's. I remember the circumstance exactly—there was this girl who I thought was the coolest and most fashionable girl ever, and I wanted her to be my friend. We were talking and I wanted to say something super clever about a piece of jewelry we were admiring, and I called it eye candy. And then we started using the term around. Incidentally, I also happen to know the girl who thinks she invented the phrase "bad hair day." I actually believe her claim. She is super clever.

3. I am frequently wracked by guilt.

I think everybody has their go-to bad emotion. Grief, shame, rage, guilt. I'm totally in the guilt/shame camp. I can be wracked by guilt for days for wronging a person. It really affects me poorly when people are mad at me over the Internet. I can easily let myself get haunted by things I've done. When Mind Games was coming out, I was petrified that there would be this whole subset of people who'd lost loved ones to aneurysms, or like, Lou Gehrig's disease, and think I was making fun of them with my fake diseases, and making light of disease. This had occurred to me only after I wrote it, and it sort of haunted me. Okay, now I probably sound crazy!

4. I was mean older sister, and naturally, I am wracked by guilt over that.

I am the oldest of two sisters and I was really mean to my youngest sister growing up. Why? I don't know! We are on great terms now, but I have this feeling like it must have been horrible for her to have an older sister like me. We were just always fighting.

5. I worked on a Kibbutz in Israel.

I dropped out of college and went there with my friend Rachel and we stayed for several months. It was in the Western Galilee, just a few miles from Lebanon. A kibbutz is sort of like a self-sufficient commune/village full of intergenerational families living, working and caring for each other. We worked on their avocado farms, and the tomato greenhouse, and sometimes the kitchens and in exchange, you got a little place to sleep with the other volunteer farmhands and meals, a few bucks and a carton of cigarettes every week. LOL. It was really wonderful, and I met kids from all over the world who were doing the same thing. I'm not Jewish, but this whole kibbutz experience, and traveling after, gave me such a unique perspective on Israel and different ways of living.

6. I used to be very serious about classical guitar for all the wrong reasons.

Beginning around tweenhood, I took classical guitar lessons, I practiced like crazy and got really serious and really good for my age and won a bunch of contests and stuff. I didn't feel any specific passion for the instrument, and I had very little talent. It was ALL because I had a crush on my cute guitar teacher and was desperate to impress him, and gain his adoration. Because, though I had no musical talent, but I do have a talent for applying myself to things in really extreme ways. This has served me greatly as a writer.

7. The stereopticon pact.

I have a group of old friends here in Minneapolis and we made this pact years ago that in all our published works, we would use the word stereopticon. A stereopticon is a kind of 1800s viewmaster; you look through it at slides and they look startlingly 3-D. I actually used the word stereopticon in Mind Games (one of Diesel's possessions in the abandoned gas station) but not everyone was integrating stereopticons into their published works, or, like, they would stick it into the acknowledgements. So, I felt I wasn't bound to use it in Double Cross or subsequent works.

8. Super healthy eater

My husband and I are kind of health foodies. You wouldn't know it for my obsession with chocolate and cheese and crackers and Mexican food, but 95% of the time, I eat really clean. (I personally think it's unhealthy to be too strict about anything, even healthy eating.) But, often, we have mammoth salads for dinner. Other times, just pomegranates. Or just watermelon. My husband, also a writer (he's an essayist) makes really delicious smoothies for us every day that have stuff like chia, noni, maca, dandelion greens, blueberries, lemons, raw eggs. We make special raw food for our cats, too, that involves frozen rabbit and bison meat and pureed veggies. We have the healthiest cats on the planet and they have super soft fur.

9. I have wrestled roomfuls of sweaty men.

My husband is a longtime martial artist, has been a martial arts teacher on and off for years. Anyway, we had this idea it would be fun to take a class together. He felt that wrestling and submissions was a giant hole in his mixed martial arts bag, and what the hell, I'm a sporty girl. So, we joined this school, the "warriors cove." Most of the time for classes, I was the only girl, and I would spend all this time wrestling guys, first for position, i.e. who can be on top or side mount, and as time went on, trying to put submissions, like an "arm bar" on them. It was amazing exercise, but I got injured a ton. Most people there got injured all the time, but you just keep going. I enjoyed it, but eventually had to quit. I think it's good for a writer to do these sorts of things.  That was a few years ago, and now I'm working on a paranormal romance project that involves UFC fighters, so it's really convenient to have done that.

10. Scared to drive on highways.

Lest you think I'm this brave swashbuckling writer type by #9, I am petrified to drive on highways. Like an old lady! I never liked driving on highways, but for years we had this car you couldn't take on the highway, so it didn't matter that I was scrared to do it. Now we have a car you can take on highways, and I feel like a scared old lady. I hate driving on highways, but I hate hating it, too, so I just make myself. But sometimes I will find myself looking for routes to avoid it.

CC: MY MY can I ever go on about myself! Apparently I am totally fascinated by myself. Amber, thanks so much for having me here! This was fun.

AS: My pleasure, Carolyn. Now hurry up and get me book three!!!

So, reader. My favorite is a toss up between eye candy and the boiler jokes. What's yours?

:}Amber Scott

Filed under: 10 Things...5 Things..., Guest Author, P.P.I.F.

Day 4: 7178 Words!

Alright.

I shut the inner what-would-grandma-think voice up and oh my gosh but this is already quite a ride. Paula is crazy! In a good way.

Not to jinx it, but the story is flying right out of me! Sweet!!

Ten words to describe Paula's story, Drowning Lust, so far:

Succubus

Crush

Hard

Sexy

Betrayal

Revenge

Kickass

Slut

Redemption

Sated

:}Amber Scott

Filed under: Charles...Milla, Goals, Excuses, Etc., Miscellaneous

NaNoWriMo: Day 3

3554 is my total word count as of Day 2!! The first few days of Nanowrimo are always the easiest. But I already hear my internal editor, Charles, fighting his bindings in the closet. He's wriggled free before and if I'm not mistaken is already very concerned about what Grandma would think of Paula's story.

Paula, you see, is a succubus and well, a bit of a bitch. Not an uncaring bitch. Not mean. Just an ain't gonna take crap from anyone and jaded to the bone kind of bitch. I adore her already, but Charles is right. Grandma would be shocked already. I'm a little shocked.

Thankfully, Grandma isn't one of my readers. Also, deep down, I know she'd love me regardless. She might see me a bit differently, but, hey. This one's for the muse. So, Milla, it is still all yours.

:}Amber Scott

Filed under: Charles...Milla, Goals, Excuses, Etc., Miscellaneous

Motivational Mondays is now Manic…

…Month! Today, National Novel Writing Month, the 50,000 word sprint, commences and I am in it to win! That means the next 30 days will be a craze of busy chaos. i shall neglect laundry, ditch the dishes and scrape together 1667 words a day.

I have my soundtrack nailed down for Drowning Lust, the 2nd in the Lust series. Liv Starr began the series with her quest to cure her succubus lust. Now, her best friend finds herself on her own and tempted beyond belief to return to their incubus maker.

Will she? I don't know. Paula Morrison is a volatile and often self-destructive temptress who has never been in love.

Temper Trap, Muse, Massive Attack and more are playing on my iPod but I'm looking for more. If you know of any dark and sexy songs, please let me know what they are. Milla, my muse, feeds off of great lyrics and a killer beat. So, I need to feed her well all month long.

I haven't completed the 50,000 word sprint in two years. This year, I will. And each day, I'll report on my progress along with Paula's. I'm letting Milla run free and have locked Charles, bound and gagged, in my mental closet. All those niggling not supposed to's are gone. I

I'll return to regularly programmed posts in December. November, though, belongs to Nano. Stay tuned for the wild ride. It will either be really, crazy fun or just plain crazy. Either way, you only live once, so why not go for it?!

Alright then, let the race begin!

:}Amber Scott

Filed under: Hump Day Updates, Miscellaneous, Motivational Mondays, P.P.I.F., Work In Progress, Writing Craft

P.P.I.F.: Meme Tagged Fulfillment

My beloved and favorite author to stalk, Gini Koch, tagged me with the Meme Challenge this past week. A meme is basically a mini-interview, started by someone who picks a set number of people to answer a group of questions, those people copy the questions to their blog and pass them on to the set number (in this case 3) of unsuspecting victims, who pass it along, and so-forth.

Since we all know how much I love wacky fun, let's do this, bitches!

1. If you could have any superpower, what would it be? Why?

I already have a superpower. I can't tell you what it is, though. It's super duper top secret, but if I lurv you, you will feel the effects of it in your life. Okay! I confess. It is the power of the geek. So, long as I follow that inner geek, the one that gushes over some of my wackier ideas, things work out for the best.

2. Who is your style icon?

My younger sister. If Heather says I look like a Cat in the Hat Lorax in a pair of pants then I do. I don't cry. I don't flip her the finger. I simply nod, smile and go grab more jeans to try on. The great thing is, when I do look good, she totally lets me know it and nothing feels better.

3. What is your favorite quote?

My favorite? Only one? Come on, please? Okay, fine. One.

"Be the change you want to see in the world." Only I like to insert different things for world. And change. "Be the laughter you want to feel in your belly."

4. What is the best compliment you've ever received?

I get a lot of gee, you're skinny's which I think folks think is a compliment but rarely feels like one. I did almost cause a car accident while crossing the street and a driver couldn't stop leering. That was fun. But, my favorite, all time compliment had to be when my career coach and my editor both told me they could not put Love Lust down. Wow. That is the best feeling ever.

5. What playlist/CD is in your CD Player/iPod right now?

I try to listen to Gini Koch's Playlist page often since she has uber cool taste in music and I thereby feel closer to Kitty and Martini who are only weeks away from being back in my hands for their next adventure, Alien Tango (pre-order NOW!). I also am creating a playlist for Drowning Lust, my coming Nanowrimo project and look for sultry, sexy stuff like Massive Attack and Justin Timberlake.

6. Are you a night owl or a morning person?

I can be both. I love nights but find being bright and cheery in the morning is easy with a cup of coffee and cartoons on for the kids.

7. Do you prefer dogs or cats?

I speak cat. I love dogs, too. But, a kitty on my lap is the best ever. I love how snotty and particular they are. You must earn a cat's love.

8. What is the meaning behind your blog name?

Originally the project meant my place to disclose my process of going Indie with Play Fling. Now, it means my career building brick by brick. Also, it references Project Pay It Forward, wherein I try to help make three debut authors (Gini Koch, Erin Kellison, Carolyn Crane) into bestsellers. Cuz I love 'em. And I stalk.

Choosing who to hit next was hard, since this one's limited to 3. So, I went for other authors:

Ann Charles

Deena Remiel

Erin Quinn

So…anyone have a few awesome listening suggestions for my new playlist? Think succubus and erotica.

:}Amber Scott

Filed under: Miscellaneous, P.P.I.F.

Get CLOSURE With Rie McGaha!

Happy Thursday all!! I'm pleased to bring you my Q&A with Closure author Rie McGaha today. Let's slip right in!

AS:  With three blogs, a website, 12 children and 33 grandchildren, I must say, I am hugely impressed you have any time to write. What's your favorite make time for writing trick?

RG:   There's really no trick since all my kids are grown and on their own, and most of my grandkids are in California, with others in Texas and Missouri. I only have two who live nearby. To tell the truth, my 4-legged babies take more of my time than anything else. I have 9 doggies and 3 kitties. All are rescues and I would like to encourage anyone who is thinking of getting an animal to please, please, please adopt from a shelter. And think older dog…they are awesome!

AS:  Congratulations on your latest release! What was your favorite scene in Closure to write? Why?

RG:  Thank you. Closure was the most fun I ever had writing a book because I killed off my exes in this one! I also made my husband, Nathan pose for the "murders" to make sure they could actually be done. Accuracy is so important!

AS:  What was the most challenging scene in Closure to write?

RG:   The most challenging scenes in any of my books are the love scenes. I know the mechanics, but getting the emotion and finer techniques to make sense is very difficult for me.

AS:  To get to know you better, please fill in some blanks for us:

Happiness is a beach in the Caribbean.

To sing at the top of your lungs is good for you.

All coffee and no food makes Rie a little manic.

If you can't take the truth, then don't ask me the question.

AS:   I'm with you on the coffee one. Next, if you found a writing magic wand today, what would you use it for?

RG:  I guess I'd be a little selfish and write the book that puts me up there with James Patterson and Dan Brown.

AS:   I love it! Will you hit me with that one, too? So, what movie can you watch a thousand times and never get sick of?

RG:  Catch & Release; Just Like Heaven; It's A Wonderful Life; The Book of Eli; Silence Of The Lambs; The Red Dragon; and many others. Not only could I watch them a thousand times, I think I have!

AS  If you were casting Closure for the big screen, who would play Amy and Zach?

RG:  Gerard Butler would be a perfect Zach, and that girl from Grey's Anatomy that plays Little Grey would be a good Amy.

AS:  Excellent casting! What can readers look for next from you?

RG:  So glad you asked! On October 30 DEEP WITHIN MY HEART will be released from Silver Publishing. This is a rollicking, fun, pirate romance set against the War of 1812. I used real events and real people of that time and wove my characters into the events.

In November WRITTEN IN STONE comes out, also from Silver Publishing. This is a historical set within a historical vampire story that is unlike any vamp story out there…at least I hope so!

And on December 1st CROSS THE LINE comes out from Solstice Publishing. This book is my own personal favorite. I submitted this manuscript so many times and received so many rejections, but I knew eventually there would be an editor out there somewhere who would get me and get the story. This book was five years in the making and I am so thrilled to have it published. Cross The Line is a historical interracial romance that pairs the daughter of a former plantation owner with a runaway slave. It's a family saga that brings the relationship through the generations to contemporary times. I worked so hard on this story for so long, I have fallen in love with the characters. They don't even seem like characters to me but more like family I haven't seen in a long time and really miss a lot.

And then in March 2011 ONE GOOD MAN is coming from eXcessica publishing. This one is about Allison Hamstead is a BBW who lives in Chicago and just found out her boyfriend has been seeing her best friend, Sarah. So Allison packs it up and moves to Biloxi, Mississippi to accept a position as an executive assistant on a floating casino where he meets the boss's son, Stephen. Stephen Collins is gorgeous and he knows it. He's also a playboy and Allison just can't figure out why he's putting the moves on her!

AS: Wow! These sound wonderful. Thanks so much for stopping by, Rie! Now, reader, a question: while literally killing off an ex might be a bit far to go to get closure, do you have any ex you'd love to torture? Spill the details here!!

:}Amber Scott

Closure by Rie McGaha

High in the hills above Albuquerque, New Mexico Detective Zachariah Ellison arrives at the scene of a murder, and not just any murder, but one that definitely falls into the "gruesome" category even for a seasoned cop like Zach. When another body is found murdered in much the same fashion, Zach knows he's got a serial killer on his hands, and to top it off he's got an assistant district attorney hounding him about the case. As Zach tries to investigate the crimes while sidestepping nosey Amy Logan, a third body is found and Zach hasn't a clue as to whom the perpetrator might be.

Amy Logan has worked hard to put herself through school and pay for law school on her own and now that she's secured a position as assistant district attorney in Albuquerque, she's determined to do everything she can to be the best prosecutor this office has ever seen. And as if luck was following her, she's been assigned to the biggest homicide case the city has ever seen. The only problem she's having is the homicide detective who's leading the investigation—Zach Ellison.

Buy HERE!

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Motivational Mondays: 10% Rule

During my visit to Reno, a friend of mine shared a sweet little rule he runs his business by. It's the 10% rule. He owns and operates a sign shop. The rule states that about 10% of the time an error will occur. The machine will cut wrong. One of the artists will make a typo. Things happen. And when they do, rather than get upset, my friend files it under the 10% rule. So long as the margin of error hovers around 10%, he knows the business is running well.

I love this idea. I don't know about you but I am beyond hard on myself. You should see the flogging scars along my back! Whether it's as small as typing "right" instead of "write" or as big as "your post has not published as scheduled," perfectionists like can't stomach making mistakes.

However, under my friend's brilliant 10% rule, I can allow myself blunders. I can go in to face the blank page with room for error. Not huge error. Not 1500 words of error and stink. But 10% fixable later permission to fail that allows my mind to relax and creativity to flow.  I don't know if I can maintain 10% every day. Some days it feels more like a 90% error rate, but if I strive toward almost perfect rather than totally perfect, suddenly I feel freed up.

Hey, much like normal, perfect is pretty boring. Don't you think? Maybe we all can use the 10% rule. Not just in our writing, but in life in general. In selecting the right shoes for that dress. In cooking a mouthwatering meal. In finishing the laundry on time. If we do, by what percent will our stress levels plummet? For me, it's  nearly 100%.

How about you?

:} Amber Scott

Filed under: Miscellaneous, Motivational Mondays