In regards to my writing, I've kinda been pushing it lower on my to do list lately. It's not going well. I had Paul read it and yup, comedy somehow left after Chapter 14. I've been stuck trying to get out of Chp 16 and 17 for a month now. Ughhhh. Irritating. 

Needless to say, I'm not happy about this. You kinda know you're a writer when you're miserable when you're NOT writing. I am kinda miserable right now.

I'm gonna push through. There's nothing else I can do but open the file of shit that is my current Work In Progress, and put on my galoshes to wade through it.  

I should make a list of what I do well writing and what I don't do well writing. Maybe that will help motivate me.

What I don't do well, let's start with that.

1- Grammar rules. I need to stop being a ninja and stop the comma splices. FANBOYS, Lainey. FANBOYS. I swear, I can hear all my English teachers toasting cosmos with each other during happy hour over my current misery. Probably remembering the times I kept asking them why this was important. 

2- I do a lot of ING and HADs. Really annoying. I gotta stop. I am reading a lot of books on writing and one by one, I realize how many things I'm doing wrong.

3-Passive voice and awkward phrasing. I really hate that I do this. I am trying to learn to write leaner. 

4- I don't think I read at a deeper level. After I read one of Margie's packets, I know I don't write at a deeper level. I still have a long way to go before I'm like her Margie-grads.

Things I do well

1- Imagery. I think I describe things well. Not enough but what I do describe, I think it's well. But then again, maybe it's well to me but trite to others. 

2- Dialogue. I know I do this well. I'm too right brained not to.

3- I've read a lot of books so I have all this backlogged knowledge...that I just have to use. 

4- I think I'm eager to learn. That's half the battle sometimes. 

I have to keep repeating my mantra: Just keep writing. Just keep writing. Just. Keep. Writing.