Co-Dependent Writer: An IWSG Post

A huge thank you to this month's awesome co-hosts!! SE White, Cathrina Constantine, Natalie Aguire, Joylene Nowell Butler, and Jacqui Murray!


I forgot IWSG day!!! I came home from work, told my husband I'd mow the yard and then remebered it was Wednesday. The first Wednesday of June. It's NOT Tuesday, even if it feels like a Tuesday. 

Now, he's out mowing the yard and I'm throwing together a late, but not too, last-minute, thank-goodness-for-the-question post.

When the going gets tough writing the story, how do you keep yourself writing to the end? If have not started the writing yet, why do you think that is and what do you think could help you find your groove and start?

I have never found writing hard. It's difficult finding the time to write, which is frustrating and stressful. But it's never hard for me to find the motivation to link words together. 

Now, I will procrastinate on all the business-related writing stuff like nobody's business. I mean, I will look forward to scrubbing a toilet over boring stuff like setting up ads or applying for a business license to sell books on consignment. I'll eventually make a to-do list of all the nuts and bolts things that have to be done and force myself to wade through the list using writing as my reward. 

Come to think of it...writing is to blame for my addled brain. When I get to the that almost-done zone, I don't want to do anything else but finish that story. 

That kinda sounds romantic, but it's about as beneficial as a jealous boyfriend. It tells me to ignore everything else on my to-do list and spend all of my time with it. Nothing else matters. Not the laundry, or dinner, or your husband out there mowing a lawn you promised to finish. 

I suppose you could say that writing is my unhealthy, co-dependent relationship. I would say, "But on the bright side, it never beats me." But then I remember there are the reviews it brings me...

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Last week, I said this book was out. It's not. It launched today.  

Maybe I did that on purpose. Maybe I'm just a sloppy, unprofessional mess. You can decide for yourself, but be forewarned: I'm going to consider it a Rorschach Test. 

Congrats to Melissa! A chick who can manage the stories and the business like a boss. 

Buy Fool's Iron, a 5 star read HERE 

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