Challenges

  • Challenges,  Insanity,  Life,  Pandemic,  Writing

    A Pandemic World.

    In a few weeks, it will have been two years since I packed up my office, and moved it all home. Like most people, I worked in my dining room. I had the beautiful sunshine of the day streaming through the windows, and Harold of course. If you don’t know who Harold is, you must pick up a copy of ‘Nineteen Tales of Covid-19’. I enjoyed mid-day coffee breaks, and lunch out on my patio. While the world around me was falling apart, I remained in this little piece of heaven. I was enjoying everything working from home had to offer. I had made the decision early on in the…

  • Challenges,  Creative,  Insanity,  Passion,  Writing

    Endless Quest or Insanity?

    It is beyond me how one small activity, one small joy in my life can be so darned frustrating. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE writing. I love creating the characters, the stories, I love working through plots and sub-plots and describing in words what I used to imagine when I read.  But the process is a long one, and a very tedious one. In the creative writing classes I took, we were told,    “Write the story. Don’t edit, don’t go back – just write it from start to finish. Then worry about editing.”    WELL! It is much easier said than done. As I work on my recent brilliant story…