Comments on: Someday I will be a writer again http://robinbrande.com/writing/someday-i-will-be-a-writer-again For writers, readers, and independent thinkers--book talk for readers and writers, life chats when we need them, writers' motivational articles, secret behind-the-scenes stories from the publishing trenches, and more. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:21:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: robin http://robinbrande.com/writing/someday-i-will-be-a-writer-again#comment-8421 robin Sat, 18 Aug 2007 02:38:47 +0000 http://robinbrande.com/writing/someday-i-will-be-a-writer-again#comment-8421 Laura, thanks for your thoughts and your well-wishes! Adrienne, I'm going to be very interested in how you work that out. Balance is so wonderful in those fleeting moments when you feel you've really got it. Go out there, do it, come back and teach me/us. Miri, I can't imagine how you get anything done (anything extra and fun, that is) in those first few weeks of school. Cut yourself some slack! Once you get the groove, you'll be back to writing in no time. Kris, welcome! I just took a look at your exotic bio. You've been on safari AND held seahorses? How cool are you?! Laura, thanks for your thoughts and your well-wishes!

Adrienne, I’m going to be very interested in how you work that out. Balance is so wonderful in those fleeting moments when you feel you’ve really got it. Go out there, do it, come back and teach me/us.

Miri, I can’t imagine how you get anything done (anything extra and fun, that is) in those first few weeks of school. Cut yourself some slack! Once you get the groove, you’ll be back to writing in no time.

Kris, welcome! I just took a look at your exotic bio. You’ve been on safari AND held seahorses? How cool are you?!

]]> By: Kris http://robinbrande.com/writing/someday-i-will-be-a-writer-again#comment-8413 Kris Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:07:17 +0000 http://robinbrande.com/writing/someday-i-will-be-a-writer-again#comment-8413 Yes, yes, yes! So far my fiction writing is limited to notebooks and the inside of my head, but even with non-fiction and magazine writing, it's SO much about the business. I would think it must be even harder to jump from the business end of things to the creativity needed to write fiction. Yes, yes, yes! So far my fiction writing is limited to notebooks and the inside of my head, but even with non-fiction and magazine writing, it’s SO much about the business. I would think it must be even harder to jump from the business end of things to the creativity needed to write fiction.

]]> By: Miri http://robinbrande.com/writing/someday-i-will-be-a-writer-again#comment-8400 Miri Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:07:46 +0000 http://robinbrande.com/writing/someday-i-will-be-a-writer-again#comment-8400 Hey, at least you have an excuse. I wouldn't expect you to have any energy left over for writing with a book coming out in a week and a half. Me? I haven't written more than the handwriting in my notebook on the bus in, oh, days, maybe weeks. (It probably seems longer than it is.) Why? Friends. Manga. Editing an anthology. Little stuff. You'll get back on the horse soon. Hey, at least you have an excuse. I wouldn’t expect you to have any energy left over for writing with a book coming out in a week and a half.

Me? I haven’t written more than the handwriting in my notebook on the bus in, oh, days, maybe weeks. (It probably seems longer than it is.) Why? Friends. Manga. Editing an anthology. Little stuff.

You’ll get back on the horse soon.

]]> By: adrienne http://robinbrande.com/writing/someday-i-will-be-a-writer-again#comment-8399 adrienne Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:54:20 +0000 http://robinbrande.com/writing/someday-i-will-be-a-writer-again#comment-8399 I'm gearing up to do a few conference speaking engagements this fall/winter while also doing some travel in an attempt to un-neglect the family/friends I neglected while writing the book while also trying to start in on writing something new, so I hear you. I want to be doing all these things, but I'm also struggling to find balance. That's pretty much the story of my life, though. I’m gearing up to do a few conference speaking engagements this fall/winter while also doing some travel in an attempt to un-neglect the family/friends I neglected while writing the book while also trying to start in on writing something new, so I hear you. I want to be doing all these things, but I’m also struggling to find balance. That’s pretty much the story of my life, though.

]]> By: Laura Fitzgerald http://robinbrande.com/writing/someday-i-will-be-a-writer-again#comment-8396 Laura Fitzgerald Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:35:00 +0000 http://robinbrande.com/writing/someday-i-will-be-a-writer-again#comment-8396 What I try to remember is it took me years and years to tinker around and find a workable process for writing. Promo/marketing/interacting with readers is a whole new endeavor, and what I've tried to do this year is sort of track what's efficient and not efficient and what's fun and not fun, all in hopes that as the years go by, I'll have a workable process for this, too. Then I sometimes just think, "the ebb and the flow..." and that calms me. (Plus, we always want what we don't have, don't we???) I AM SO EXCITED FOR YOU!!!!! What I try to remember is it took me years and years to tinker around and find a workable process for writing. Promo/marketing/interacting with readers is a whole new endeavor, and what I’ve tried to do this year is sort of track what’s efficient and not efficient and what’s fun and not fun, all in hopes that as the years go by, I’ll have a workable process for this, too.

Then I sometimes just think, “the ebb and the flow…” and that calms me. (Plus, we always want what we don’t have, don’t we???)

I AM SO EXCITED FOR YOU!!!!!

]]> By: robin http://robinbrande.com/writing/someday-i-will-be-a-writer-again#comment-8395 robin Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:00:51 +0000 http://robinbrande.com/writing/someday-i-will-be-a-writer-again#comment-8395 Sarah and Barbara, thanks for chiming in. It actually does feel better knowing it's not just me. Barbara, I know you're right about the fact that writing your next book is the best use of your time--I mean, you didn't see J.K. Rowling out there mixing it up with people while she still had book 7 to write--but sometimes I just can't see the way to avoid some of the "other stuff." Again, none of it is bad--I mean, I'm going to complain about signing a bunch of book plates for people who want autographed copies?--but every single thing does take time. Like trying to figure out when I can get to the mall to buy clothes for the various events I have starting next weekend. Oh, boo-hoo me--but yeah, it still takes time. Sarah and Barbara, thanks for chiming in. It actually does feel better knowing it’s not just me.

Barbara, I know you’re right about the fact that writing your next book is the best use of your time–I mean, you didn’t see J.K. Rowling out there mixing it up with people while she still had book 7 to write–but sometimes I just can’t see the way to avoid some of the “other stuff.” Again, none of it is bad–I mean, I’m going to complain about signing a bunch of book plates for people who want autographed copies?–but every single thing does take time. Like trying to figure out when I can get to the mall to buy clothes for the various events I have starting next weekend. Oh, boo-hoo me–but yeah, it still takes time.

]]> By: Barbara O'Connor http://robinbrande.com/writing/someday-i-will-be-a-writer-again#comment-8393 Barbara O'Connor Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:27:15 +0000 http://robinbrande.com/writing/someday-i-will-be-a-writer-again#comment-8393 Robin: I hear ya loud and clear on this one. I feel like I'm constantly struggling for balance and so often, the scale feels tipped to the marketing and "other stuff" side instead of the writing side. And I do feel strongly that more often than not, the best use of my time is writing my next book instead of all that other STUFF. Barbara Robin: I hear ya loud and clear on this one. I feel like I’m constantly struggling for balance and so often, the scale feels tipped to the marketing and “other stuff” side instead of the writing side. And I do feel strongly that more often than not, the best use of my time is writing my next book instead of all that other STUFF.

Barbara

]]> By: Sarah Miller http://robinbrande.com/writing/someday-i-will-be-a-writer-again#comment-8391 Sarah Miller Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:51:44 +0000 http://robinbrande.com/writing/someday-i-will-be-a-writer-again#comment-8391 So it's not just me either, huh? That's a good thing. So it’s not just me either, huh? That’s a good thing.

]]> By: robin http://robinbrande.com/writing/someday-i-will-be-a-writer-again#comment-8390 robin Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:51:01 +0000 http://robinbrande.com/writing/someday-i-will-be-a-writer-again#comment-8390 Katie, I love that sewing is your secret pleasure. Your recent post about the pineapple dress was a hoot. Please don't ever make sewing your job, or then what will you do when you sneak away? Sara, I think you're exactly right--my brain is always writing, but because I can't put anything on paper just now, it gets all cranky. If I just wrote a paragraph or two of story today, everything might return to balance. Der. So why don't I do that? Heather, I like your idea--although what's wrong with looking like a psycho? Keeps people from interrupting you, don't you think? Katie, I love that sewing is your secret pleasure. Your recent post about the pineapple dress was a hoot. Please don’t ever make sewing your job, or then what will you do when you sneak away?

Sara, I think you’re exactly right–my brain is always writing, but because I can’t put anything on paper just now, it gets all cranky. If I just wrote a paragraph or two of story today, everything might return to balance. Der. So why don’t I do that?

Heather, I like your idea–although what’s wrong with looking like a psycho? Keeps people from interrupting you, don’t you think?

]]> By: Heather Harper http://robinbrande.com/writing/someday-i-will-be-a-writer-again#comment-8389 Heather Harper Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:50:00 +0000 http://robinbrande.com/writing/someday-i-will-be-a-writer-again#comment-8389 "Don’t you think your brain is secretly writing all the time?" Yes! I even bought a voice recorder so I won't look like a psycho when I start talking to myself in the car or in public. (Don't want to forget anything important.) My kids are used to this, btw. ;) Enjoy your funness, Robin. “Don’t you think your brain is secretly writing all the time?”

Yes! I even bought a voice recorder so I won’t look like a psycho when I start talking to myself in the car or in public. (Don’t want to forget anything important.)

My kids are used to this, btw. ;)

Enjoy your funness, Robin.

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