Well,
here we are again, another beautiful Sunday afternoon in sunny Arizona . All my Sunday
chores are done and I’m ready to write my blog post for Wednesday (‘cause, you
know, I was a girl scout and believe in being prepared)….and therein lies my
problem.
I HAVE NO TOPIC!!! Nothing! (See picture...this is what I do when I can't think of a subject!)
I don’t think this has ever happened to
me before….I always come up with something. Yeah, I might procrastinate and not
write until Tuesday night (in a panic because 1) the topic was elusive and 2) I
need to post for the following day) and I might have several false starts on
several different things I wanted to discuss but I can usually come up with an
entertaining (well, I hope it’s entertaining) subject.
I can do this. After all, I talk to complete
strangers on the elevator and you, dear reader, are no stranger….we’ve visited
before.

Now, when I’m working on one of my
stories and I come to a place where the words just aren’t coming and the brain
has frozen, I can jump ahead to write a future scene. You’ve heard of pantsers
and plotters, right? Well, I’m a puzzler. I write the scenes as they come to me
and then I puzzle them together and hope everything makes sense….which is why
I’ve already written the Big Black Moment as well as the epilogue on my current
work even though I am nowhere near those places. They came to me so they were
written. It works for me for the most part although I can’t tell you how many
times I’ve ruthlessly deleted those scenes because the story took a different
turn.
Hey, will you look at that? A complete
blog post. How do you suppose I accomplished that with no topic? Well, I guess it just goes to prove that I can talk about anything...even if it's nothing.
As
always, happy reading!
Marie
Too funny! That's what an author is told- keep writing no matter what comes out:)
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