Shhh! Creativity In Process

Happy Tuesday Everyone,

I haven't drunk all my coffee, yet, so I'm waiting for my brain to "kick into gear".

Lately you've probably noticed my posts are very short and not as much information in them as in days past. There's a very good reason for that:

I'm in editing...my brain is in editing, except when I'm reading, tending to my family or doing some other thing like emails, helping with a contest or doing email interviews.

I'm not going to neglect the blog, but if there's a day I don't blog, it's because I'm tending to some of the other things I have going on.

As you know, the writing process can take time. So when creativity is in process, we have to respect that. The good news is, if the author is lucky, the story gets published, then we get to enjoy it. :-)

Anyway, wherever you all are at in the creativity process I wish you success and hope it goes smoothly! Best wishes :-)

Have A Terrific Tuesday!

Comments

Lisa Miles said…

Good luck editing! I was blogging 1-2 times a day, every day for a while. But then life got in the way and now it's more like 1-2 times a week. :)

Tuesday, 04 May, 2010

Bethany said…

Lisa Marie,

Thanks so much. It's going okay. Still have quite a bit to do, but at least the First Round is coming to a close (50 more pages in the FIRST round of edits, and I don't know what's going to change, be cut or be kept, yet, I'm just going page by page and implementing the changes as they come to me). The main thing is, I'm making progress and I couldn't be happier about that! :-)

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