 Action/Adventure: June 10, 2020 Issue [#10168] |
This week: Getting Back to Writing Edited by: Storm Machine  
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Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Conflict is drama, and how people deal with conflict shows you the kind of people they are.
Stephen Moyer
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There is still a pandemic out there, whether your area of the world is opening or not. It's been long enough that we've discovered what it takes to get us through today, and maybe tomorrow. Some may still be keeping their heads down for a while.
So, a big question: Are you writing? I wasn't. At first I was trying to juggle the kids, the shopping trips, and idea that we had to cook every meal and we couldn't just go visit people. That has been hard in a lot of ways.
What changed to bring me writing was a friend or two, and suddenly we have a daily writing date set up. We meet on Google and catch up a couple minutes, then do our little sprints. It's still a lot to get me to write for a whole hour at a time, because of distractions and disruptions and not really being able to get all the cobwebs out of my head from the daily grind of being domestic.
(I return to work in June after not working since March 12. I do not know when my regular gigs will come back up, but the new one is exciting for me.)
In preparation for getting out while my husband and kids are still staying home, it feels good to start to get some normalcy into the day, which for me includes writing. So I relish this time with my friend, and we share little tidbits of our days. We occasionally read stories from each other, too, and this has been a great distraction away from the hours that I have to remind my son to do his work every day. Yes, it is actual hours. I've timed it.)
We all create different coping mechanisms in times of stress, and if writing isn't the thing right now, that's fine. Maybe it's reading or creating something different - whether that means braiding ribbons or yarn crafts or paper mache things to bash later. Just allow yourself to do something, and let it be for you. Even if writing is your professional career and you're paid for your novels, you still need down time and you still need to fill the well within in order to create amazing things.
Take some time, find that thing, and go do it.
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Monty 
Just not nice to be wrong when you are a know it all. Thank you for a good news letter.
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This NL had me second guessing my character (MC) I had a comment that my character needed a voice. I’m thinking the story drives the characters not the other way around. This NL had me thinking about my Antagonist. He’s a misogynist. But what I’d he isn’t like that at home? He’s acting at work because it’s expected. He grew up in this type of household so he knows how it works. I don’t want him to sympathize with my protagonist just keep her in her place so she can’t take his. Hm?
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