The Social, the Networking, the Emotion and the Dogs

Many see writers as brooding, emotional people.  People driven to drink in dark corners of smokey pubs.  Okay, I will admit to the brooding thing, but usually I'm lost in my own world.  Writing isn't easy and I've seen the most mild mannered writer snap the head off a person when a project was...well, it wasn't pretty.  As for the drinking in smokey pubs--puleeese!  Okay, so a group may get together for a margarita or two or five, but we always, always, ALWAYS have a DD-at least one licensed one per car. 

Now, we obviously live in a world where social networking is the norm and the idea of taking something said or typed back is impossible.  Once shared it is for everyone to read and discuss and disect.  Sharing emotional writing may help...or it may hurt.  Whether it be the writer or someone else and not the person intended.  We tend to forget that social networking is just that networking.  It is networks within networks, circles withing circles of people-oh, the social aspect of the whole thing.  Another thing that is forgotten as we type for good or ill-there are live, breathing people behind those keys as well.

But then there are those who don't care about the living regardless.  They only care about how they can get ahead in the world by looking down their nose at those they believe inferior to them.  But there is one person in the world they won't ever be able to make fell less than whole.  To remind myself of that I named my two dogs Elli (short for Eleanor) and Sassy (because every woman needs some sass).  And, yes, they are both bitches....

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Writing Under the Influence...DON'T!!!

While writing try to use common sense.  Don't write mad...and publish it online.  Don't write drunk...and publish it online.  Don't write while under the influence of drugs...wait...just don't do drugs--period.  Unless your doctor tells you.  And if they're the loopy kind don't write then publish what you've written online.
In fact, under these circumstances avoiding the internet altogether is a good choice.
It's called the common sense factor. 

The Freedom of Writing

Writing is who and what I am.  I began writing down the stories of my worlds when I was thirteen and have yet to stop.  I am always working on a new story, a new character, a new line.  I am never without at least one book somewhere on my person or in my gear, but since my friends tend to love to read as much as I do they generally do not give me too much grief. 

Some things in life are harder to obtain than others.  The home I fantasized about for years just may never be within reach.  To have someone in my corner, a rock, someone who doesn't run at the first opportunity.  I would like to have a real vacation where I can honestly say that I wish it wouldn't end.  I dream of having an over-sized chair that holds me when I want comfort, protects me when I nap, supports me when I work and relaxes me when I read.  But above all I want freedom.

Writing is my freedom.  They are my dreams come to life on paper with the printed word.

Above all things I am a writer who is currently working on a career in the writing field.  My stories and novels will be published.  I only hope that they will be strong enough to reach out to the masses.  (May I be humble enough to realize that I am not the first, nor the last person to have a book published, and whatever success I have is because of my readers.)

I once believed I wanted to be a writer because I prefer to be alone, but I've learned to be published is to know the people around you.  To realize nothing can be done alone. 

Writing especially.

Writing Takes Time

Most people think of writing as a hobby.  Something to do when you're bored or don't have anything better to do.  But writing is more than putting an idea down on paper.  It's drawing a reader in, making the story come alive with words.  It's writing-not telling a story, but showing a story.  And a job that will make a forty hour work week seem like child's play.
The advice any writer working on trying to be publish is...WRITE.  The first draft doesn't have to be perfect...that's what editing is for.  Learn to love it-even when you hate it.
New authors (ME!) who are on the verge of being published or have their first published work out whether in e-format or in print didn't have their first work published or even considered for publication unless they were extremely talented AND lucky.