Purpose: To share and encourage. Writers can express doubts and concerns without fear of appearing foolish or weak. Those who have been through the fire can offer assistance and guidance. It’s a safe haven for insecure writers of all kinds!
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December 4 question - Let's play a game. Imagine. Role-play. How would you describe your future writer self, your life and what it looks and feels like if you were living the dream? Or if you are already there, what does it look and feel like? Tell the rest of us. What would you change or improve?
I'm a pretty content person - I like my life the way it is...
BUT
... if I'm dreaming big, then I'd probably add these changes
- copies of my (multiple!) published books on the shelf in my den
- a desk where my feet touch the ground and I can sit without pain for an hour at a time
- someone in the background quietly cleaning my house with products that don't make me sneeze
- and most important of all - me as a confident author who is able to tackle those major revisions without flinching and without needing more than 2 or 3 revision rounds!
How about you, what's a change that you would/will make if you're dreaming BIG?
Your feet don't touch the ground now? That must feel super weird.
ReplyDeleteIt does - My hubby is going to take a few inches off the desk one of these days! :)
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ReplyDeleteYep! I never did all that much growing!
DeleteOoh...I'd like that cleaner to visit my place too!
ReplyDeleteI'll let him/her know! :)
DeleteI like the idea of "my published books on the shelf" in my office too!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on finishing the draft during November. It was so difficult for me not to edit as I wrote.
Teresa
I love first drafts - I could write them forever. The editing tries to kill my soul some days so it's easy to ignore!
DeleteI would love for someone else to clean my house.
ReplyDeleteI’d have to clean my house before I let someone clean my house! 🤷♀️
ReplyDeleteLOL - there are days!
DeleteI can't imagine ever getting to the stage of not needing multiple rewrites of my stuff – but that doesn't mean it won't happen for you.
ReplyDeleteIt hasn't happened so far, but I'm hoping one day!! :)
DeleteAll great goals. I share a few of them as well. ;-)
ReplyDeleteAnna from elements of emaginette
I see that we do!
DeleteAll great dreams. I am with you on the last one. I'm going crazy revising one of my books. Looks like it will need atleast 2 to 3 revision rounds!
ReplyDeleteThanks - those revision rounds can be so tough!!!
DeleteHi,
ReplyDeleteI like the fact that you are content. I am too even though I am in the middle of a revision for possible publication by a publisher. Keep up the great work and all the best.
Shalom aleichem,
Pat G @ EverythingMustChange
Thanks Pat - and wishing you ALL the luck with that revision!
DeleteA big hooray for being content. Love your dreams. If wishes were horses I would like to stop feeling inadequate. About everything.
ReplyDeleteI completely Agee with you on that feeling - maybe one day we'll get there!
DeleteI'd have more time to write for myself. Your dreams sound great.
ReplyDeleteThat's a very good dream - and I think you're getting closer to making that a reality!
DeleteNovember is a hard month for writing! I'm creating my own NaNo in January.
ReplyDeleteGood for you - that will be fun!
DeleteI love your last goal! I would love to be able to go through revisions more easily. Or at least faster!
ReplyDeleteMe too - revisions tend to suck me dry and make me believe I'm the worst writer ever!
DeleteI am SO up for that 'cleaning in the background' person. Why didn't I think of that? And why hasn't anyone else mentioned that because gosh yes!
ReplyDeleteLOL - yes!!! It's a very important goal - at least to me!
DeleteSounds like great dreams to me. I especially love the sounds of cleaning. I would add cooking and laundry being done too. :) Then the distractions would be much less!
ReplyDelete~Jess
I like cooking and baking, but I'm more that willing to have someone do the laundry too! :)
DeleteAh yes, a cleaning fairy would be good ;)
ReplyDeleteOne day!
DeleteI love the person quietly cleaning the house in the background part.
ReplyDeleteAnd how I would love to be able to wrap up my revisions in two or three rounds. That really is the dream, isn't it?
Happy Holidays!
It sure is!! I feel like I've done 100 editing rounds on most of my books so far - and I'm not done yet!
DeleteThe confident author goal -- something we all wish for!
ReplyDeleteWouldn't that be awesome!
DeleteYou have awesome goals. And btw even I struggle to make my feet touch the ground most of the times when I sit.
ReplyDeleteSonia from A Hundred Quills.
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Yep - short people problems! :)
DeleteAh, someone cleaning the house while I write. Why didn't I think of that? Instead of me typing away thinking of the floors needing the vac, the shelves needing dusting and whatever...Having a shelf of my books in my study is a sweet thought...and doable. Here's to writerly success, Jemi!
ReplyDeleteCheers, Denise! Hoping for the best in 2020!!!
DeleteI love your dream, especially the part about someone cleaning your house. Yes. And while they're doing that, you're writing your next blockbuster. I can see it now.
ReplyDeleteThanks Lee! I'd be content with the house cleaning though! :P
DeleteGreat dreams. Here’s hoping all of them become real one day.
ReplyDeleteThanks Mason!! :)
DeleteSomeone quietly cleaning in the background? Why didn't I think of that?? With all the money you'll make with the multiple book deal, you can afford it now:)
ReplyDeleteLOL - sounds like a plan!
DeleteSomeone else doing the cleaning? Can they also come and do that and some cooking for me please?
ReplyDeleteWe'll see what we can do! :)
DeleteI like your list of desired changes! Especially the comfy desk chair and someone doing the housework. I seem to have opted for the version where I don't do it... and neither does anyone else.
ReplyDeleteLOL - nothing wrong with that! :)
DeleteYes, please...can I have someone cleaning for me too?
ReplyDeleteI know! How great would it be!!!
Delete"Someone cleaning my house while I write"... heaven!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas :)
It would be!!!
DeleteHope you have a wonderful Christmas, Carol!! :)