“Madness need not all be breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.”
--R.D. Laing
I suppose this last week could be considered madness of a sort. Unplugged from the blogosphere, facebook, twitter, and everything except email—and that sparingly. Madness for certain, yes?
I am inclined to hope for the “break-through” part. I’m also inclined to think I’m a bit enslaved, too. ;) Either way, I’ve paid a lot of attention to my Word Processing program this week and several pencils have been worn down to nubs. My poor husband was a bit enslaved also, forced to talk story structure with me until the wee hours of the morning. I’d claim that I’ll never put him through it again but the man’s a genius. Genius. I’m mining that vein of gold until he kicks me out. (Don’t do that, baby. I love you.)
You should know that I did miss you all, quite a lot, and those first few days were an exercise in my self-restraint. I’m actually proud that I had any! I’m glad to be back, happy to “see” all of you again. I can’t deny that Unplugged Week was good for me and I may participate in it again.
In the mean time, I’d like to know how you all are. Tell me about your last week, your efforts, your successes. Fill me in.
All my best,
L.T.
P.S. I’m going to work on being more structured around here. When I work out the details, I’ll let you know. Take care, everyone!
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I outlined the sequel to Sidewinder, had a bit of a plot problem but Porter helped me work through it. I also finished reading a couple of books, nothing major. Finally got my car back from the shop and sent my computer out to get fixed by HP. Life goes on.
No word back from any agents yet...
Here is my success: To figure out when the Writing is the Very Last Priority. When to know that Everything Else is more important. I did it.
Wow, unplugged. I think I'd go mental. Kudos woman.
I taught a Ukrainian Easter egg class. Finished a goose pysanky(Ukrainian Easter egg). Took two boys for hair cuts and one for an MRI (it's not a tumor-in the words of Schwarzennager, just tension headaches, we think).
I wrote three missionaries, a journal entry and revised a story for the Writer's Digest Competition.
Not a bad week.
I'm not nearly as genius as my wife is. However I do have this shirt that I love to wear that says, "I'd love to have a battle of wits with you, but you appear unarmed."
It's a good thing no one has called my bluff yet.
I didn't get nearly as much work done as I thought I would while I was semi-unplugged last week. *slaps self on wrist*
Hopefully that'll change this coming week.
Glad being unplugged worked for ya!
Good for you for sticking with it.
My Snuggies for Seniors drive is a success! We are so close to making the goal!
I felt the blogosphere was very lonely last week. But I still was in there trying to keep up. I will have to get unplugged in the future because I need the writing time.
It sounds like your hubby is a keeper! I'm glad you had a successful week.
I recently unplugged myself from facebook. I miss my writer friends, but not the rest. I spent too much time wasting the hours away, instead of writing. At least with blogs I feel like I'm making a connection to others, and getting good advice alone the way.
Welcome back!
Awesome for unplugging! My husband's a gold mine, too. I'm always picking his brain. Our husband's should meet!
Welcome back! I thought I'd throw you a little "good job party" and give you an award. Check it out on my blog. Have a great day!
Let me see, last week...
So long ago... :)
On Wednesday I started up my declutterization blog again. I'm working on a specific space in my house for 15 minutes a day so that in a few years it will be clean.
I hit 15 pounds weight loss, hooray! Bouncing between that and 14. Hopefully it goes down again.
Meant to work on my WIP but haven't gotten there yet, mostly because of...
Baby Bean. He's been sick and teething, so he doesn't want to be put down much at all, as you know from my Facebook update!
All in all, it was a good week. Bean says "Hi". He's bouncing on my shoulder right now!
I missed you, Laura! One month until Storymakers! WOOT!
Congrats on your WIP, I'd love to read more sometime! your hubby sounds like a gem! I think your hubby and mine would get along famously.
Glad you had a great unplug week! It's nice to have you back. I had a good week, writing-wise (well, it was all around good, really). I wrote 13 pages, so I exceeded my ten page goal, and I even got another chapter typed.
Yay! So glad you are back. =)
Isn't it funny how as writers we always look for quotes to justify our "madness". :) Yours is also the third blog I've read lately that talked about bouncing ideas off someone. It's obviously a necessity and so nice when we have a sucker.....I mean, willing listener.
Glad you're back. Unplugged can be good, as I found out in February. I wrote over 50,000 words--more than I've even done in a month before. Most of them were keepers.:)
Wow, you chose a bad week to miss out on my life. Over these last seven days, I've won "America's Most Slothful Homemaker", made a Jehovah's Witness AND a political door knocker cry, and proven once and for all that it is physiologically impossible to eat so many girl scout cookies that you actually explode.
You know, same ol' same ol'.
Proud of you!
So glad you're back, but even happier that you had a productive Unplugged Week.
I had three full requests from agents this last week, that's my success. My failure: I'm way behind on my WIP/March Madness word count this month.
Can't have it all, I guess.
*grin* You are awesome! And you were very missed. :D It's good to have you back!
Last week I successfully completed still another week of blogging every single day. It has become obsessive. Maybe I should unplug some week--maybe I'll wait until I've done a year of daily blogging (yikes 6 months to go)-- then again maybe not.
Good for you for taking a break!
Lee
I'm so glad you had such a great week. Sounds like you accomplished much. I, uh, yeah. I did find some motivation and I started writing on Saturday. That's been nice. To be able to pen new words and feel like a real writer again.
Those in-between places are hard and dark and I don't like them.
I've been fairly unplugged myself these last few days. It does feel good. :)
I'm so happy you're getting so much done!
Yay! You're back! I didn't do much this week, well, with writing at least. Instead I procrastinated by redesigning my blog and figuring out all the kinks with getting a new URL. Oh the headaches.
Glad you got some writing done though! My hubby is going to be gone for a whole week, and I'm planning on spending my loneliness by writing. *knock on wood*
Yay for being back. The time away must feel good but the time back probably is nice too to reconnect with those friends you've missed. I need to do an unplugged week. I'm thinking perhaps when my daughter has spring break? Not sure. This last week was fun for me. Finished three books (Courting Miss Lancaster, Band of Sisters and Fablehaven 2) and sewed a few fun projects.
You were very much missed but I'm glad it was such a positive experience for you!
This past week as held tears and fears, and a joyful return to writing which has me feeling like ME again.
Hope your breakthrough is on the horizon!
I've been off on blog reading for the past several days. I'm trying to stop reading blogs daily and instead, use that time to really write/develop my story line.
I'm back to blog reading tonight & it is a delightful treat.
PS: I love kicking around plots with my husband too. He's a great source of inspiration!
Welcome back! I also took it unplugged, too. I wrote about 10,000 words on my WIP--revamping the cheesy scenes...
So good to see you back online, Laura, I missed you.
It's hard to be unplugged isn't it? I've been away A LOT more than in the past. My addictive tendencies rear their ugly head if I don't resist the constant pull of the social media (ahem).
I love the way you describe your time away with pencil nubs and a genius husband. :)
I have been away from blogging, twitter and all that jazz for several weeks. It's been very strange...
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