inkjunkie/dumpyrain - Revelation

I like the yellow ones.... Enjoy. Writing can make you nuts!

Yeah, I have to keep reminding myself that it's all about balance...writing, kids, husband, along time -- and that's just the personal stuff! Then you add in financial concerns, and whoosh -- there goes my balance again :) enjoy the beauty, and then give me some tips on how you found your balance, k? :D

Smell some for me, Linda!! But please don't quit writing! I love your work.
mb

I've had the premature sendejactulation--too

How to smell the roses:

1) Be sure there are no small bugs in the flower
2) Insert nose in flower and inhale

It's no fun to get one of those green ladybugs up your nose. Also I hate the green ladybugs because they eat the stamens off the white roses and then the whole flower falls apart.

Enjoy taking it easy!

The green ladybugs (they're not really ladybugs) are evil. The red ones are fine, though the large orange ones will sometimes bite you.

Do you vacuum them up when they come in? (remove the vacuum cleaner bag immediately, though -- the ladybugs will start making a bad smell.) You might also spray the ones on the outside of the house with soapy water.

My grandma has the same trouble with boxelder bugs. They get into her window, the one with like 50 potted plants, so it's hard to get them all.

If the bugs happen to be on the windows, spray them with soapy water or Windex.

Try to find any cracks outside the house NOW and caulk them up.

Hope that helps!

I got a lightening fast rejection from him- very nice, though. Said it was too dark for him.

Wise words, Dumpyrain. Time off is good for letting all those ideas percolate. Enjoy yourself!

Time off can be so releasing. Just like any job, I guess. You have to take a vacation, and days off during the week, or you just get burned out.

Sorry about the rejection - but what a great attitude! I know exactly what you mean. We definitely need some time off for ourselves and our families. Besides, how much new inspiration is going to hit us when we're locked inside an office all day.

Hope you enjoy some time off, and that everything falls into place when you return to your manuscript.

Yes...relax and smell away. But don't you go too far or we'll come and get you!

Jayme

Hugs, Inky. Balance is a wonderful goal, and I'm nowhere near achieving it. .

I got a very encouraging no from him.

But what I learned when I was submitting and had to cut it off at page 29 was--
This chapter ending, unlike most of them, didn't have a cliff-hanger. It was just a reflective pause in the action.

I'm going to see whether I can make ALL my chapter endings, except the last one, either clifff-hangers or, at least, more suspenseful.

I hear ya, Linda. I did the same thing with My Destination-Imagination? novel. I subbed it before I was ready to then scrounged to do a rewrite I wasn't happy with. The result? A predictable rejection. You've got a great novel though. When the time is right you'll feel like subbing it again. I know what you mean about priorities and time though. My son is starting Kindergarten in two weeks and I've been wondering where the past 5 1/2 years have gone? How did it go so fast? And was I as "present" as I needed to be? Oh, the contemplations of life...

Hi, Linda,

I think it's true that writers need to take some time to experience life. When writers visit friends, weed their gardens, or travel, we get new ideas. I like taking a walk and actually seeing the wildflowers I'm trying to describe, instead of sitting at my computer and trying to remember what they look like.

I'm so glad you're working on your book again. Recharge, then revise.

Stef

It always amazes me what a little rosesmelling does for the writing muse. Just remember to come back to the keyboard. ;)