Any Excuse Will Do

Today's guest blogger is a busy woman.  Sandra Bowman is Marketing Director for Intrigue Publishing, but she's also a published author of urban dramatic fiction writing as B. Swangin Webster.  With all that going on, she still had no excuse to avoid appearing on my blog...

Well, today I am guest starring….well, I think I’m a star anyway, but I’m here on Mr. Camacho’s blog. I first would like to thank him for this award, oh wait; wrong show. But I would like to thank him for giving me an opportunity to talk to his fans about my excuses…I mean re-writing process. Gasp!
See, I had it in my head that although I love, love, love, yes I said it three times, now will my prince appear. Wait, that’s another blog. Ok, back to the topic at hand. I love my first novel, Let Me Just Say This because I wrote it as a high school project back in 1984. Yeah, that was when there were manual typewriters with the correction ribbon. But I didn’t use a manual typewriter.
I wrote it…as in long hand… on eight yellow legal pads. Now more than 20 years ago, nope not telling you my age, I have looked at it over and over and decided that I am such a great writer that I should go back and re-visit my old friends and let them tell me their story, again. In the eyes of a forty-something year old. So I guess I am telling my age, aren’t I?
So the process has been slow going. I mean I have so many distractions. Like I’m now the marketing director of Intrigue Publishing and I have five grandchildren and I work in a middle school and I have to help mentor new authors and…and…oh wait, those are all excuses, aren’t they. Truth is, I wanted to do this and now I have every excuse why I can’t. And let’s not forget; I’m blogging on my own blog AND Mr. Camacho’s.
So see, there are good reasons why I haven’t sat down in over a week to rewrite my first novel. Did I mention I was in a car accident?
But wait, I’m doing exactly what I tell new authors not to do. I’m making excuses. There is no excuse because I have full use of my hands and my computer and laptop are always near me. So I guess there is no excuse but to do it, right? So here I sit, staring off into space when I could be writing and you know what. I am going to do it.
Right after I go outside and plant some flowers, and maybe wash the car and then I have to go to the store. So I’ll do it when I get back, or maybe I’ll do it first thing in the morning, yeah, that’s it. I’ll do it in the morning. I sure hope I have the energy. Whether you're interested in writing, publishing or attending the C3 Conference, Ms Bowman would love to hear from you.  Message her on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/AuthorB.SwanginWebster  or write to anauthor08@live.com   .