Heather Ames's Blog - Posts Tagged "writing"

One little word. How often do we all use it during the day? Judging from editing my own manuscript as well as those of fellow writers at all stages in their professional development, way too often. It sneaks in everywhere. "Wait just a minute." "He just wanted that day to be over." "Just a tad more paprika." Do I need to go on? I give myself a mental wake-up now every time I use it, and force myself to yes, justify that usage. But somehow, when I go through the final draft, I see it creeping around, lurking around or just plain sitting there in full view, smirking at me. If I could just figure out a way of changing that, I just would.

I have a new interview posted at David Alan Binder's blog:

https://sites.google.com/site/dalanbi...

He posed some interesting questions, and I did my best to give, hopefully, some interesting answers.

I finally came to a fork in the road where one path led to keeping 2 jobs, one of which had become too time-consuming, physically demanding and just plain stressful, and the other a journey at a far more reasonable and rewarding pace with many interesting side-trip destinations along the way.

Giving up my day-job is like jumping off a cliff without a parachute, but becoming a full-time writer has been an unfulfilled dream for many years as I tried to be fiscally responsible and work my way through to that fork in the road.

Now I can double my productivity, spend the time I need on research, promotion and supporting not only myself but the writing community as a board member of the local Sisters in Crime chapter.

I think I'm going to like this new, uncharted territory a lot, even if it has some bumps in the road. There's a lot to be said for the adventure of the road untraveled, and I've never been one to back away from a challenge.