Notes from IFOA
Topic: Writing Outings
Tuesday 4July06 3:12pm

I've decided to be a smart money person and save up for the things I want to buy rather than buying in advance and being in debt. So in keeping with that, I have the money together for the Patron Membership that I want to buy for the International Festival of Authors in October. I'll buy the membership mid August to be prepared to get all the tickets I want.

I came across my notes that I've kept from the author interviews I've attended over the years and thought I'd post some of them. Most of the notes are just fragments that popped up at me, ideas I'd like to delve into in my own writing or just something to think about.

Pierre Berton:
He read all the books he could find on one subject before he wrote a book. He would read letters, original diaries and documents etc.

He wouldn't write a book that he wasn't interested in reading. "Would I buy this in a book store?"

Anita Desai and Bharati Muhkerjee:
Unexpected events - life going along and being blown apart.
Natural Property - doing what you are naturally supposed to do,

Anita:
You cannot live anywhere until you find out why you are there - delving into the past.
going back and exploring your roots.
it's an act of discovery to go back to your country of birth (your home) because it's new, a new country.
Anita spends time at her desk every morning. She writes longhand - writes on one side and corrects on the other side.
She read poetry to end writer's block.
She writes short stories between novels.

Bharati:
getting perspective on what's going on around me.
You never know how you are going to be tested.

Russell Banks:
Likes to start from certainty and moving out into uncertainty
Interested by the voices of working people.
"How come I escaped and they didn't?"

David Young
Everybody is born with two questions.

Round Table Discussion on Writing
Discipline is important
Write everyday, 7 days a week, when you are on to something.
Writing begets writing
A writer is a reader moved to emulation
Do your time.
If you want to be a writer - you write.

Writer's block is a fear of failure, a failure of imagination. Lower your standards.

Write what you don't know about.

"Finish it"

Your loyalty is to your book.

Convince the reader that the world is real.

Susanna Clark
gave up on 3 projects before completing her first published novel.


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Mercury is Retrograde
Mood:  happy
Topic: Writing to Live
4July06 Tuesday 12am

Mercury goes retrograde by the 5th of July. When mercury is retrograde one of the things you're supposed to do is revisit old projects that you may be stalled with. My project is my novel White Wishes.

Saturday, I went through all my digital recordings and transcribed the notes for White Wishes. It feels like it's time to battle through it.
It took me about an hour to come up with a summary for White Wishes. I kept asking, "What is White Wishes about?"

The Summary
Rachel plans to escape her husband and the choices she's made in the name of survival while Kali's sense of belonging is jeopardized when she discovers that she is one of the secrets that Rachel is keeping.

It's a start. At least now I have a better focus when I work on the chapters. I rewrote chapter one and started work on chapter two. I feel like I have a better handle on it. Thank goodness!

It's hard when I have time off from work. It's hard to know how much time I should spend enjoying myself and how much time I should spend on my writing. Finding a balance is always a challenge.

I do have to lose some weight so I do need to move to do it. I've been fasting this weekend using the Sambu Deep Cleanse because I've been having digestive problems. I didn't leave the house today or yesterday but I feel like I've got a direction for White Wishes.

I just don't want to go back to work and feel like I haven't made good use of my free time.

I cleaned up my website yesterday, Poetic Pieces and went through my digital recordings. When I walk to work, I carry my digital recorder and talk my ideas into it. I get embarrassed sometimes because most of the people I pass on the street look at me like I'm crazy. Or better yet, "Who does she think she is talking into a recorder?"
I'm not a freak. I'm just trying to find ways to help me to write...

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Writing 2 Live

Changing My Blog
Topic: Writing to Live
28June06 Wednesday
In my stupidity I thought that there was something wrong with this blog cuz I couldn't get the feedblitz subscription thingy to work properly. Turns out I needed to give my RSS URL not my normal URL. sigh!

So last night I copied this blog onto a new one... The EY Page.

It took me many hours and I don't have the heart to delete it. But being that there is a benefit to everything, I decided to keep this blog for info on Writing... writing conferences I attend, plus notes on how I'm doing with my own writing...
blah blah blah.

So that's the scoop. You know me, Wild Ideas!
So over the next little while I'll be deleting my old entries from here (the ones that do not pertain to writing) and all that.
Thanks for reading and go check out my new house... so to speak.
The EY Page

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Bob Mitchell
Mood:  chillin'
Now Playing: Nothing. Slowing down for early bed time.
Wednesday 14June06 9:04pm - Donald Trump's birthday! A ball breaking Gemini, who knew!

Read an interesting interview on Novel Journey yesterday. The author is Bob Mitchell and I want to get his book, Match Made In Heaven...

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Inspiring