time, writing, thinking aloud...

I'm just killing time before meeting a friend for dinner.Just dropped my husband at the airport and am on my own for a couple of weeks. I'm hoping to use this time wisely.

Some goals for the next two weeks include being religious about my cardio and gym time, cleaning up my act with the food {always the toughest thing for me....I LOVE food}, riding everyday.....and resurrecting a novel that I periodically visit!

I've always been a writer of sorts without ever intending to make a profession of it. I used to write short stories in the back of high school algebra class, made up plays when I was even younger, wrote for the school paper. I confess to a love of the long essay and research papers in college. I've started a dozen books over the course of my adult life.

Last summer I started working on a book project that involved horses, dressage, a little romance, a good look at the East Coast show world. My thought was that if I write about what I know, I should have a better shot at making a believable, and hopefully, enjoyable book. Previously I started and put down an attempt at fantasy. I may go back to it eventually, but my ideas for that one began both to spin out of control as well as wander into areas already covered by better writers. That one sits in a drawer, benignly neglected, until my next inspiration for its direction.

But my horse book is calling me again. I jotted ideas just the other night. Just now I need to give myself permission to work tapestry style rather than via an outline or chapters. I get so involved with layout that I fear I miss out writing down scraps of inspiration, description or dialogues floating about my mind.

Does this count as writer's block? Can one have writer's block when one hasn't finished anything yet????

wandering around the site

Question of the day? As I learn to maneuver and try to read other people's blogs, I find there are two themes that show up EVERYWHERE. Christianity and kids.

Now I have nothing against either. However, as I go looking for other blogs to read and potentially follow, I feel bombarded. Is anyone writing about OTHER stuff? If so, how do I find you? I keep hitting next blog, but it's either God or someone's children staring me down. Very frustating.

So I am going to label this little ramble with ALL the things I'm interested in and maybe someone will comment and lead me to new blogs about very interesting topics that require neither prayer or diapering...

Anyone out there? I will talk about all sorts of stuff...