Never delete!!!!

Well, I'm working on a new chapter, and I have new ideas for it.  I'm going to add some stuff that wasn't there, change some things that were, and yank some stuff that won't fit any more.  That's what writing a story is all about, right?  Oh, excuse me.  Write?  LOL

If it doesn't fit any more, and you are hesitant to pull it out, try this trick I learned (the hard way) instead of deleting.  Cut out the offending section, paste it into a totally different document that is labeled 'Archives' and rework the scene.  I learned to never delete anything, because sure as shootin' I wanted it back eventually and I had no way to retrieve it.  In my opinion, no writer should ever delete anything, no matter how small a section, or how trivial it seems.  NEVER DELETE!!!!!!  Archive instead.  You can always find what you took out and rework it, or stick it somewhere else in the story.  Or, as in my case on a few occasions, find a totally different story, change the names and places, but use the circumstances of the scene in an utterly new way.  I've surprised myself in the number of times when I archived something and then later, eureka! I found a place for it.

It's been awhile...

Okay, I admit it.  Life has been keeping me hopping the last few weeks.  I've been busy being a mom, a wife, an employee, a homemaker...does running errands count, and how would you name that?  Anyways, I'm here, I'm here, just been busy!  Yeesh!

Well, I'm still working on my story, and I've even put in a bit of work on a short story that I would love to see published.  I am hoping for an edit job or two and just for kicks, I think I'll start work on another project I have in mind.  I want to make bead necklaces and bracelets.  I've got some of the equipment, so I'm gonna start that too.  Hmmm...  Maybe I'm doing too much?  Naaaaaaaah...

To be, or not to be...

I am to be faithful to my writing goal.  I am not to be disturbed by anything, short of spurting blood or a bone sticking through flesh, or perhaps a bomb.  I am to be honest to the story.  I am not to be interrupted by sound, by cats, by anything.  I am to focus.  I am not to allow myself to be distracted.  I am...I am not.  Or...to be or not to be...same thing!