Writing is Great for My Housework

I have to say I've been writing my whole life but up until about a year ago, that's really all I was doing was writing, really for myself. I mean I did submit some stories to contests, a few novels to traditional publishers but for the most part I just wrote. There was no real sense of urgency, no worry about getting the story done. I'd write when I had free time, more often than not that was with pen to paper because usually I was out chasing or er, driving my kids around to activities and sports. So then I'd have to type up what I'd written. It tended to take quite a bit of time. No big deal because then it also took quite a bit of time to get up the nerve to do the homework and then to send out a query letter to a publisher.

There weren't really any timelines or deadlines. Well now that I'm published that has all changed.

I have self-imposed deadlines. Mainly because I do love writing and the ideas are coming but also because my fans are asking when is the next book coming out. Guess what? Now, I find it difficult to write. Okay that's not true, it's not difficult to write it's difficult to sit my butt in the chair and write my story. With Deceitful Truths it took a few months of next to no writing on it, before...
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Published on August 21, 2013 06:46 Tags: deadlines, deceitful-truths, editing, maggie-thom, the-write-to-read
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