Happy Friday Everyone!

Wow this week just flew by. I hope everyone is enjoying the awesome weather on this great Friday afternoon. I have chosen to work on my book today, at least for the most part. In between writing I've been checking out some of the blogs I follow. Something I've been lacking on lately due to being involved in a ton of other things. I want to thank all of you who follow my blog and leave comments here and there. I'm trying to keep up with and return the favor.

There's still so much to get done before our guests come to stay for a few weeks. Eleven days to be exact. The guest room has been completed and there are only 2 rooms left to do finished. Once they're done, the tile can be placed and the carpet can be installed.

Well, back to my writing. I'm on chapter 3 and its all flowing out pretty well.  I'm writing about 1,500 words a day now. I plan to write more today though. So far, so good - knock on wood.

Update: Today I've written 3,000 + words on my novel.

Random Entry...

As writers, we typically write. And by write, I mean we write everything down no matter what it is. We write to do list, grocery list, notes on things we may want to write, character sketches on people we know or do not know. For writers, writing comes naturally. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it comes naturally good, but as a writer, I write down a lot of ideas, even if I don't foresee anything ever coming from it. I always want and need to option of having the chance to use some of those ideas somewhere in my writing.

Today's writing project (A new idea that popped into my head last night and I jotted it down into a screen writing book I'm reading) that I have began writing has a lot of hope. By hope, I'm basically mean that I hope I can create this awesome idea into a best selling novel or at most create 80,000 words. I have a small amount of doubt about this, but clearly not enough to deter me from going further. I guess my doubt popped up when I discovered I can't figure out what color my MC's eyes are. Yes I know, silly right? The color is very important in the beginning here because of what the townsfolk call her. Her name is Gemma and the townsfolk call her "the gem of Redwood". So see my small predicament. I know it'll come to me at some point, but as for the moment, I'm stuck.

Yesterday, my best friend sent me a link to a great writing site called Fuel Your Writing. It has a lot of useful information on it that feeds or fuels your writing.

With my huge list of "Things to Do" I can finally cross one off my list. I completed the guest room remodel finally. There are a few tweaks that need to be done like two bedside lamps and a few pictures on the walls, but other than that, it's completed. I can't wait for the rest of the house to be completed, then I can go back to my normal daily life of writing and creating.

These are some other blogs that are worth checking out...
Freelance Folder
Ink Thinker Blog
Fluent Self
Men with Pens

Ideas… From Who, What, When, How, & Where?

Writers are known for their creativity, their wild imaginations, and the ability to put thoughts into well rounded words onto paper for those who lack that ability to read and enjoy… (and sometimes envy). But the question is, where does this special breed of human get their ideas from. What deep well do they dig those creative characters out of and what cave do they enter to find that wild imagination? Many writers get their ideas from the world around them. Article writers for Parenting magazines watch their own children or other people's children and the ideas of articles begin to flow. The same also applies for writers of sports, animals, and even car enthusiasts. The ideas for their stories and articles all thrived from somewhere within planet Earth.