I am back, or still here, just working away behind the scenes. I have been using a new writing technique, called (by me) snippets-on-my-phone. Sitting down to write gives me huge anxiety, as it was becoming all-consuming and leading me astray in my stories and in my life. So now I just write little scenes or pieces of dialogue as they come to me throughout my day. Sometimes I just want to capture the feeling of a strong emotion, so I turn it into story form and put it into one of my two main novels, one a sci-fi with animals coming of age story, the other a sequel to one of my childhood favorites.
Why am I here today? I tend to get a bit lost in nostalgia whenever I open my blogs. For a time, they were such an important part of my day and they still bring me much joy. I am doing Camp Nanowrimo. I am also a fan of Hero Journals now, and they teamed up together for July, so I had to jump in. I set a low goal for myself, to sketch out a rough draft of a children's book I'm working on called Waiting. Or Hope. Or The girl and the bunny and the red balloon. I met my goal of 123 words, yay! I am only satisfied with this version maybe a 3 out of 10. I like the description that I wrote to a friend much better, so my next step is to rework it with a bit more structure of what elements each page will contain. I am hoping that said friend will also illustrate it for me and then maybe we could see about publishing it together, but we'll see.
You know me, I love a good badge. I popped in today to put the Camp Nanowrimo badge on my blog. I like knowing when I start things, since I count my participation very generously from the very first moment.
I guess I also just wanted to put it out there that I am still writing. I am still here. I am further along than I have ever been. My next writing step in general is to download a new writing program I saw that partners with Nanowrimo in order to get organized and see how much I have. Today I hit a milestone for my ALPA novel, no more words fit in my note. Time to move it on to somewhere else I guess. I could just start a new note but I like threading it all together. I am also quite a spender and have a gift for investing (that just means my money goes bye-bye almost as soon as it comes to me), so I need to gradually move some of my projects towards finished and hopefully an income stream someday. Soonish. I am currently into collecting backpacks and I want to dabble in Trapper Keepers again (technically my first purchase yesterday was a five star Meade portfolio/binder thing), which requires additional funds. So onward I go. It's the little things.
