Day 8 of PiBoIdMo

I am enjoying this commitment.  It is helping me have a focus and daily purpose with my writing.  I am thinking and looking for ideas in new places.  Reading the Facebook entries have been and I know will continue to learn different things.  There was a conversation about paying for a professional critique.  Everyone said it was helpful.  They liked it when a publisher or editor or agent was the one doing the critique.  I know some do it as a second job which for them would be a way to keep abreast as to what is being written.  I also have learned that a lot of the people participating have published a book.  This tells me that they are always searching and wanting to improve their writing.  I think I need to take a writing class.

Day 5 of PiBoId

I tell you what,  my brain is searching everywhere for ideas.  It's weird, everything could turn into an idea...good/bad but an idea.  I was sitting in the parking lot yesterday and read the names of the stores.  I had a flash of using the names as characters and then visualizing what they would look like by what was being sold in the store.  Wild.  It freaks me out.  I find myself going down memory lane but then having to think of a more current connection for today's kids.  Like the dress code at public school in the 60's won't work but the feelings would.  The not wanting to be told what do wear or what to do by adults.  I'm beginning to feel as though we are all characters in our own book and everywhere and everybody connected to us no matter how remote also is in their own book.  Freaky.

I'm Published!!!

My first published story.  YaHoo!   It is in Fun for Kidz, which is a puzzle, tricks, games kind of a magazine.

PiBoId day 2

Well, I was up at 3:00 a.m. and had an idea that I had to write out.  Staying in bed and staring at the ceiling just made the story grow so I had to put it down.  It's weird how an idea comes and then leaves.  It's like squeezing lemons.  There's a lot of juice at the first squeeze and then it peters out.

I'm really getting a lot of insight into how different people write and think.  The ones who have done this before are a full of a lot of suggestions and encouragement.  One gal said she had finished a draft and asked if anyone would read it.  That I think is the biggest thing I have learned is the need to have your writing read by many others.  It goes back to the perception of the reader.  What I intended and what another gets from the same words can be totally different.  Just like siblings.  We all grow up in the same house, same parents, same rules but we all turn out different.  An experience can be remembered differently even though we were there at the same time.  Wild but true.

A lot of my ideas come as single words.  I think I'll take a lot at them and see if anything is developing further.