Thursday evening

Hello Readers,
Well my post on whiners received some passionate responses. But it's te way I feel. Writing is hard work and it like housework, taking care of our families and so many other things takes time to to do TIME YOU HAVE TO MAKE not time that magically opens up to us.
The bottom line for me is don't talk about it DO IT. I have lived up to that for a while now and yes, SOMETIMES life gets in the way of writing. I mean people die, get married have babies, and company does come. But deep down inside I know that no matter what I say that keeps me from SHORT OF BEING SICK WITH MY CHRONIC ILLINESS it's just an excuse.
Last night I wrote eleven pages no great shakes but this week so far I have written twenty-five still there are those who write twenty five pages a night and I used to write ten pages a day and sometimes twenty but for me I tell myself if I can write five pages a night then I can be okay. Lately I have written more but I don't keep track of how many hours I write a week I do it by page count.
I might say right here now why I chose to be an author:
I chose to be one because I can think of nothing better than to entertain people between the pages of a book.
I want to escape (so I write fiction although I have tons of non fiction that is equally entertaining) I also spent a great deal of times at libraries growing up and had it's influence on me as well. I developed a natural love of books and for me books are a part of my past, present and future.
Then one day I decided to try my hand at writing something longer than a poem or short story(but I started with a horse short story in late grade school) from there poetry.
Then later after my second marriage I thought that I should try to write a book much encouragement came from Monette Cummings and she called me everyday at first having me read to her over the phone (this was back when phone calls were NOT cheap) she taught me over the phone about Hooks, middle of the book blues, she wanted this worse for me than maybe I did since I had no idea what I was actually doing but then something magical did happen I DID LEARN and I did start to feel comfortable in my writing skin. I started to take my writing seriously more and more and now days I can state one thing that I don't think anyone can take exception to and that is IF YOU DON'T TAKE YOUR WRITING SERIOUSLY then no one else will either. It's that simple. Husbands don't change magically, phone doesn't stop ringing, the day job doesn't disappear (unless you make it), children continue to grow up inside the house or outside the house and friends still need attention. But it's like anything else if you want it you will make time not excuses and that is the bottom line.
Monette never had children but she sure had family that got under he skin from time to time and her friends were her extended family. I remember how somber she could be but let me tell you when I told her some of the motherhood things and wife things that I did she would laugh so hard that she would hang up and call back after she caught her breath. In the very last year of her life she was writing historical mysteries and one Ironside type mystery. She never stopped learning, teaching and dreaming.
I guess the main thing she taught me was "Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today"
In the long run of things writing is not as important as relationships, family, friends, of course your higher authority God or whatever but the truth is if you want to write and make time to write you will write otherwise you can keep a list of excuses that after your dead someone else will publish. LOLOLOLOL...........
Hugs, Pamela