Five Great Things

This is something I do at the beginning of every year. I write down five great things about me and about my writing.

Five Great Things about Me
1. I am a great friend.
2. I am fun-loving.
3. I am supportive.
4. I like to make everyone around me feel good.
5. I am good with children.

Five Great Things about My Writing
1. I always include a complete church scene in my writing.
2. I have continuity in my writing.
3. I have some aspect of deliverance in my writing.
4. I have some aspect of restoration in my writing.
5. I try to write things that will encourage others to give their life to Christ.

Writing Goals

For the month of December (2007), I wrote 37,722 words. Yea!

Writing Goals

For the month of October, I wrote 62,105 words. Yea! I wrote everyday!

Writing Goals

For the month of September, I wrote 31,961 words. Yea! I wrote everyday but one. I was sick that day.

Writing Goals

For the month of August, I wrote 122,900 words. Yippee! I updated 66 sites.
The last week was hard, but I made it.

Writing Goals

I am very proud. For the month of July I wrote 46,543 words. I updated 82 websites. Yea!

I did have to readjust the writing goal for this month. I was having a hard time because of the heat. I had been walking outside several days and it wasn't working for me.

July is a hard month for me, heat wise.

Writing Goals

I am very proud. For the month of June I wrote 75,654 words. I updated 124 websites. Yea!

Writing Goals

I am very proud. For the month of May I wrote 21,031 words. I updated 27 websites. Yea!

Writing Goals

I am very proud. For the month of April I wrote 21,011 words. Yea!

April Fool's Challenge

This month, I am participating in the April Fool's Novel Challenge. Basically, you state a goal, work towards that goal, and hope for the best.

Here are my goals for the challenge.
1. Edit Captive By History.
2. Write at least 20,000 words on the novel.
3. Edit the newly written material.
4. Update the entire novel.
5. Finish Part One of Captive by History.

Writing Goals

I am very proud. For the month of March I wrote 20,258 words. That is 1,258 words more than my projected monthly goal. Yea!

Goldilocks and the 3 Bears

I am considering writing a version of Goldilocks and the 3 bears. In class, we read that story for 5 days straight. We read 3 different versions of it, but we read the story over and over.

One day, in my overactive mind, I started writing my own version of the story.

I am going to try to get my sister-in-law, Jolene, to draw the pictures for it.

I don't know when I am going to get around to doing it though.

Finished Another Convert

I finished Another Convert from Gossip tonight. I am so happy. I will post it later.

Gossip

I am going to work on Gossip tonight. Yippee!

Another Convert, Forever

So, Another Convert has been listed on my Goals list forever. I am going to have to finish that up before too long. I need to add it to the Gossip Blog.

What I Did Today

I finished writing on my short story from the 14th. It's a cute story, but it is a bit sentimental. Oh well.

Short Story Continued Or Not

Today, I meant to write on the short story that I started yesterday, but I didn’t feel like it.

I mean it is two days until Spring Break! Yippee

Feeling Blah!

I had some other stuff to write about today, but I am feeling kind of blah right now. I think I have caught Spring Fever. I have Spring Break next week. I am trying to figure out something to do next weekend. I really want to get out of town.

It isn't like I can go to a beach or something for the week. I just wanna get out of the house.

Allergies
My allergies have been irritating me all day. My eyes, ears, and throat have been itchy all day. I have been scratching all day. I am trapped in a building. I want to go outside, but I am scared to be out there for more than 20 minutes because I might end up regretting it.

I am beginning to think that I need a chocolate fix. The nurse at my school is selling chocolate bars for her son. I bought a couple of them. I am seriously considering eating on of them. I am not into to whole chocolate thing. I am not even into sweets. I very rarely eat chocolate. I eat sweets even less, which is odd because my brothers and sister eat sweets like it is going out of style.

Siblings
Speaking of siblings, all of them have MySpace pages, Jerry, Kevin, Jeremy, and Alisha (in order of birth after me). I was the last one to get one and I am the oldest. (Please note that I am not responsible for anything that appears on any of their pages. Jerry's page is not bad. He is a preacher.) I can only control what appears on my page.) Anyway, I got a MySpace page so that I could talk to my little sister. She never answers her phone and I don't know her email address. (I am so off topic. Anyway.) My sister has posted some silly comments on my page. She is my baby.

Free Writing
I am really free writing right now. I am just typing what pops in my head. I haven't done that in awhile. I have been writing more structured stuff.

(She knows she can get up, so what is she waiting for.)

Gossip (Short Stories) & Gossiping
I have been working on My Short Story Series: Gossip. It is turning out rather nicely. It is crazy how much church folk gossip, especially preachers. Church folk sure can talk about each other, under the guise of "sharing" information, telling people what to pray for, or a combination of both. If I hear one more person say, "I am just sharing so that we will know what to pray for," I am gonna scream. It is just flat out gossiping, plain and simple. I had to be delivered from gossiping. I still have yet to figure out how I got so caught up in gossiping, too.

I did not grow up in an atmosphere of gossiping. My mother does not gossip. She does not find out the latest gossip until it is two years old. No joke, I am serious. My taught my brother and I not to gossip. (For clarification purposes, my father has three different sets of children, Jerry and I, Kevin, Jeremy and Alisha, in case anyone was wondering.)

I got caught up in gossiping so quickly at my last church that I was a full fledge gossip before I even realized I was a gossip, by then, I was in too deep. I was gossiping with the leadership of the church, high ranking leadership. It was referred to as VERIFYING INFORMATION that was already known. Basically, I would go verify some information for another person. Oddly enough, I had access to resources where I could verify the information.

Once I was able to get out of the web of gossip, I laid before God, cried, and repented like crazy. I felt so bad for getting tangled up in that sin. Sin will suck you in and make a fool out of you.

I guess I am pretty much through free writing for now.

It felt good to get that out of my system.

Speaking of Handwritten Novels

I looked at the spiral that contains the handwritten portion of my Allegations Novel. I had handwritten quite a bit of the novel. I was going to tear the pages out of the spiral, but when I saw how many pages there were, I didn't tear them out.

Wow!

Wire Bound

I took my two novels to FedEx Kinko's and got them bound. They look so good. My husband laughed at me because I got the bound.

Having them bound has further inspired me to finish them.