A Writer's Life

I created a rough timeline.  I do it old school with paper and pen.  Here It Is: I drew a line in the middle of the page. The left side is the major plot points The right side is what happens and the time of day and weather. It is very rough.  This is for my eyes only.  But now I know what day the book starts and the weather, and what day the book ends and the weather.  That is major to me.  My timeline is Thursday-Sunday Your timeline my be months, years or centuries, but this gives you where months etc should go.  Then as I write each scene, I will pay more attention to the time of day, the weather and the month of the year.  It will give you more depth in each scene. What do you think?  Have you ever created a timeline? 

Ever thought of what day and time each scene happens?  To be honest, I never did.  I just wrote and thought I was brilliant.  Now the book that I am writing now the time line is Thursday- Sunday.  I have a time line also the weather plays a factor, So I have to make sure what day, time and hour each scene is. I draw a line on a piece of paper _________________________________________________________________________________ Then I place the scene and write the time.  When I finish the time line I will post a picture of it.  I am still working on it.  Should be done this weekend. What are you working on for this weekend?

I realize that I have not been blogging for over a year.  That does not mean that I have not been writing.  I have this great idea for a book, guess what?  I have been working on this book for the past two years I have written and rewritten the first fifty pages over and over again, and it was making me crazy.  I know that I have a good idea, but it was just boring, dull and who on earth would want to read this.  I didn't quit.  I wrote on the computer in long hand but I was not getting nowhere.  It was as if I was on a treadmill writing and going nowhere. Then I discovered the book Save the Cat by Blake Synder can be found on  Amazon  He has 3 books on screenwriting.  He tells you were to put certain scenes in your screenplay and what page it should be on.  I read all three books.  They will work with writing a novel.  Then I found Jessica Brody  and she wrote Save The Cat Writes A Novel I was not sure I shoul...

How much pressure are you putting on yourself to write?  Do you beat yourself up if you don't reach your daily go? Stop it. The reality is no one cares if you write or not.  Life will go on if you don't write everyday. Does your spouse yell at you if you don't write?  Will your children be neglected if you don't write? Stop feeling life a failure if you don't write or make your page quota. This year is almost over, and I did not make any of my writing goals.  I did publish a book  Suicide Is Not The Answer I am working on A Work Book to go with it, but life got in the way.  I am not beating myself up.  I just write when I can.   You are a writer.  You are creative and that makes you different from others.  You think different.  So don't put pressure on yourself.  I write everyday, but the next day, I might toss out what I wrote the previous day.   So write, have fun and that book wi...

Last week I moved out into the country.  A brand new trailer.  I now have my own office.  I should be happy, excited and ready to write.  I am overwhelmed. I have a lot of stuff.  The last place I lived, I lived for 15 years.  I wrote a lot in long hand.  I saved everything I wrote  in longhand and that I typed.  Magazines, newspapers and scribbled notes.  I saved them all.  I was unpacking and putting things in the closet that I wanted to keep.  The closet is filled.  I looked around and had no place to put any of the things I am currently working on.  I still have no room. I am a Hoarder.  I am overwhelmed.  When I met my boyfriend fifteen years ago.  He helped me overcome my hoarding problem then.  I threw a lot of things away, but kept a lot and over the fifteen years, I have collected a more.  I want this time to be different.  I want a nice place to live.  A place ...

Welcome To My World I have three loves, GOD, Animals and Writing.  That is Roxie , my best friend. I have been writing all my life.  I have been rejected from the best publishers in New York.  In 2011 I Self-Published my first book My Bible--My GOD This is my Testimony of how GOD has directed my life.  I had different plans.  I wrote Zombie Zoo Zombie Zoo .  I sold a copy less than 24 hours after being published.  I decided that Zombie Stories was my ticket to selling millions of copies.  Isn't that what we all think.  I wrote over 35 E-Books of Zombie Stories and the Series Me VS Zombies was born. Find all the Episodes at  Author Page Being a writer and having to pay bills is not easy.  Life gets in the way.  So This Blog is about my life.  The reason I am writing about my Writing Life is, because Last Monday, my life took a drastic turn.  Not in a bad way, but not in a good way.  I do...

It is already September.  As usual, I am already looking at calendars for next year.  I look at what I have done this year.  I went through a couple of months that I felt struck.  I didn't get much writing done.  It happens to all of us.  I did Publish a Non-Fiction Book Suicide Is Not The Answer I am working on a Work Book to go along with this book. I started a new Novel and writing in longhand for the rough draft. So Here is my Goals for the rest of the year: 1. Publish the Work Book Suicide Is Not The Answer 2.  Finish the rough Draft of Fiction Novel 3.  Blog on a regular Basis. What are your writing goals?  Leave them in the comment Section   Check this book out.  Thinking about being Self- Published?  This is what others will not tell you E-Book Leave a Comment.    Have a question?  Ask Me!