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Writing Excercise

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You’ve finally snapped. Stress has gotten the better of you, and you can no longer think in long descriptive sentences. Write about the day you lost your mind, using sentences comprised of six words or fewer.

Moronic drivers. Who gave them licenses anyway? Holy crap, this is ridiculous. Just DRIVE, you idiots! The accident is OVER THERE. Quit looking and GO. Get off your phones and DRIVE. AUGH. This is driving me crazy. I hate this freeway. People act like morons. Ugh. That’s it. I’m done. You want an accident? I’ll give you an accident!! No, I need to stay calm. No need to rear-end the BMW. No need to raise the insurance. It will be okay. ACK. CRAP. GO!!!!!!!

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My Workspace!! (Picture)

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Look!!!


This is my workspace–one of them. I also have a laptop. But here is my main powerhouse. See the blanket, the doll that looks sort of like me, the laser printer? Most importantly, the puppies? And if you look at the edge of my desk on the right, you’ll see my SWEET ampersand bookend. Word. Yes, this is my favorite spot in the house. :)

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Inspiration

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I feel like doing a sort of mushy post, and to write about what inspires me in regards to my writing. Those of you on my F-List, feel free to copy this for your own journals.

What and Who Inspires Me:
1. Reading author/writer/agent blogs.
2. Chatting with my mentor (smile!) Lauren (laurenbarnholdt), because she’s quite a few steps ahead of me in following her dreams, but not so far that she’s unreachable. In addition, she is upbeat, positive, and encouraging. We already have plans for me to be sitting next to her when she goes on her book tours, so she can pimp my book too! :D (this means I have to sell something before long…)
3. Sarah Dessen (writergrl). She says that even if she hadn’t been published, she’d still be writing, she loves it that much. I know that I’m the same. Plus, she writes amazing stories with unforgettable characters. I hope I am half the writer she is.
4. When people tell me “you ARE a good writer, dangit!” (Much thanks to Rebecca Vinyard for that!)
5. The support from my friends and family.

So, I CAN’T give up. I love writing too much. There’s that *feeling* I get in the pit of my stomach when I know something great is brewing inside of me. When there is a story dying to be told. I know I’ll write, even if I never sell a single book, but I can’t NOT write. It’s a part of me, it’s ingrained in me, it’s in my very nature.

And time for me to work/write/dream.

/mushiness

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