Today, to let you know I am still around and to keep in touch, I have a wonderful quote for you.
I can’t argue with that! Any thoughts?
Thanks for reading, and Creative Musings! 🙂 ♥
Hi, Everyone!
Sorry I haven’t posted in over a week. I’ve been swamped.
I’m writing now to let you know the Valentiny stories are ready for your vote – if you are interested in participating in that. It’s very easy. Susanna Hill has posted the twelve she and her helpers feel are the best ones and she’s made it easy for voting. Just read the twelve little stories, and then select in the poll the one you like best. I’ve voted. And, no, mine didn’t make the cut.
Thank you so very much for all the kind and encouraging comments about my story.
I’m still plodding along – reading many books, mostly picture books (as you can see on my books I read this year page), and hoping that I’m learning as I go. I’m behind in the writing class I’m taking (no surprise) but I find that interruptions – frequent interruptions – set me back a lot. It’s frustrating.
So, that’s all for this time.
Have you written anything fun lately? or read a book I might be interested in?
Thanks for reading, and … Creative Musings! 🙂
and blessings on your day. ♥
If I were twins I could divide between myself all the things I want less to do so that it takes half the time to do them. Then all I want to do and have the most interest and desire for can be enjoyed … giving me a better chance to feel accomplished in completing things – or getting better at them.
If I were twins I would most likely take on twice as much, get hopelessly overwhelmed with no recovery possible, and continue to not have enough of me to go around.
So, I am plugging along. Not getting nearly as much accomplished as I want to. Being way too tired too much of the time. And behind as usual. Almost hopelessly behind with little chance of catching up. That’s me, plugging along.
The good news is, I found some quotes to share with you today.
I like that quote. 🙂
I think I would have a fairly decent-sized library if I could shelve all of my books in one room. I’m aiming for a big library. One day I hope to be that organized. 🙂
Keep reading, folks! 🙂
Anything you want to say about anything today? What book(s) are you reading – or writing – now? 🙂
Thanks for reading, and … Creative Musings! 🙂 ♥
Posted in Mostly About Reading, Preambles to Writing
Tagged being organized, Books, quotes, readers, reading, twins, writers, Writing
Is this only the second weekend of the new year? Somehow it seems it should be later in the month already, as in … nearly February, probably because I haven’t had a week like this one in a long time. Every day there was something happening to cause stresses, frustrations, mix-ups, dealings with people and misunderstandings, anger-inducing situations – yes, I still get angry over things. And more than once this week. It’s exhausting! I was already tired anyway. Today I’m looking for it to be a great day that continues into next week … and beyond. Please.
2018 has already shown itself as one in which I will find it difficult to keep up my regular blogging routine. Actually, looking back I see my routine started hiccuping once Fall 2017 arrived, and it continued to flounder as the year wound down. Life got busier in our family for awhile.
*sigh* Okay. I admit it. I’ve never been great at sticking to a routine. I try, I really do try.
This year I have to plan time for more writing. Already I’m not managing my goals for the year very well at all. I think I need to take the major part of one day this week and do some purging of my space while I’m home for my week off so I feel less pressed in upon. Then I have to work on some writing projects I want to get done right away. I’ll continue to post here as often as I can, mainly because I don’t want to lose contact with you, and because I enjoy blogging – which is really the same thing. I have some book reviews to write and some books to read. Did I say some? Many. Many books to read. (I have to refer to my own list of goals. Maybe a daily checklist would work.)
Speaking of books …
So, that’s what I have to say about that. 😉
How are you doing two weeks into the new year? Keeping up your goals or resolutions or routines? Do tell! Oh, and do you find a daily checklist or chart to be helpful? If you’ve found something that works for you, would you please let me in on your secret?
Thanks for reading, and … Creative Musings! 🙂 ♥
Posted in Miscellanea, Mostly About Reading
Tagged 2018 goals, Books, bookworm, bookworms will rule the world, new year's goals, reading, stresses, too many books, Writing
It seems I’ve been absent too much lately from blogging. I’m still around, although not keeping up with everything. On Saturday last week – with hundreds of other writers from all over the world – I participated in an online Picture Book Summit which was amazing. Over 9 hours of amazing, in fact. It’s part of my education in learning about writing for children and I know I’m gradually learning some very good and helpful information.
Thanks to my local library I’ve been doing a lot more reading of picture books again – and other books, too, but mostly picture books. That’s part of the learning process, the really fun part. As a member of 12×12 the goal is to try to write a new story (rough draft) each month, and so far this year I have managed to do that. I’ve even drafted more than one a couple of months! Sometimes the story starts in my brain when I’m relaxed at bedtime and just lingers there long enough for me to scribble it down. One morning I wasn’t awake very long when I started hearing a story beginning, so I had to stay focused on it to capture the story before it went the way of my forgotten dreams. It’s fascinating to me how that happens.
Today I have some information to share with you that could be of help with your writing. It’s an infographic of 28 Boring Words and What to Use Instead, and was created by writer and blogger Jack Milgram. (Thanks, Jack!)
To go to the infographic CLICK HERE , but please come back to leave a comment.
Are there any words that bug you or you think are overused or boring?
Thanks for reading, and … Creative Musings! 🙂 ♥
You can’t read all day. Huh?! And why not? Well, besides doing all the things that HAVE to be done … why not?
Read it in full —
Ahhhhh! I love it! 🙂
YOU CAN’T READ ALL DAY. If you don’t start in the morning.
You can check out my progress for 2016 HERE. It’s not as much as I would like to read and if you could see my TBR (to be read) stash you’d agree I will probably never read enough. Although I have many paper books and more on my Kindle Fire (on which I can also listen to books on Audible.com) on the go, I just can’t seem to stop buying MORE BOOKS! I picked up a few more secondhand ones yesterday. Somebody STOP ME! … On second thought, don’t even risk trying. 🙂
On the other side of things, I haven’t felt inspired to write for quite a while — until this morning; I wrote a little story for 12×12! It’s a very rough draft and needs a lot of work, but it’s a good beginning.
Enjoy a day of reading, as much as possible as often as possible.
How is YOUR reading coming along? Or are you writing more?
Thanks for being a reader, and … Creative Musings! 🙂
Posted in Mostly About Reading
Tagged 12x12, audible.com, Books, quote, read all day, reader, reading, TBR stash, to be read, Writing
Here’s the scenario.
It’s late. I’m reading an amazing story, one of those hard-to-put-down books. I am so tired I can hardly keep my eyes open. I rest my eyes a moment, my book slips and my head jerks up. Really, I was just resting my eyes! I try to read more but then … yawn. Heaviness. I shake my head, find where I left off reading, try to continue. … Oh darn. What did I just read? Blink blink. *sigh* ohhh, I give up. 😦 I like this story and I don’t want to miss anything, so, *yawn* I give up. Time for sleep.
I crawl into bed, snuggle down and …
BOING!! my brain jolts into overdrive! My eyes fly open, my mind will not shut down, yet I know I’m too weary to read. What to do?
Ever been there?
All that to show you this great quote:
What’s your experience?
Thanks for reading, and … Creative Musings! 🙂
Posted in Mostly About Reading
Tagged Books, brain overdrive, George R R Martin, George R R Martin quote, quote, read, read or sleep, reading
Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators & Performers
Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia
"The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more." - Patricia A. McKillip
