Comments on: Hellie’s Favorite Blog of the Year: I’ll Take Some Chicken Salad http://romancewritersrevenge.com/2009/12/22/hellies-favorite-blog-of-the-year-ill-take-some-chicken-salad/ Hard to Intimidate, Too Damned Drunk to Care Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:15:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stephanie J http://romancewritersrevenge.com/2009/12/22/hellies-favorite-blog-of-the-year-ill-take-some-chicken-salad/comment-page-1/#comment-30854 Stephanie J Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:47:01 +0000 http://romancewritersrevenge.com/?p=814#comment-30854 I love the story! I think I'm adding the cry of the invisible chicken to my next Operation Bum Glue post (of which I've been lax in posting this holiday week!). Melissa, I'm lazy too! :) But I know what you mean about the excitement. I don't have so much of the plotting it in my head and losing the enthusiasm issue but I do need to get the words on the page before I tell a single soul of what I'm about to write because speaking the words aloud is when I lose the excitement of that First Tell. I love the story! I think I’m adding the cry of the invisible chicken to my next Operation Bum Glue post (of which I’ve been lax in posting this holiday week!).

Melissa, I’m lazy too! :) But I know what you mean about the excitement. I don’t have so much of the plotting it in my head and losing the enthusiasm issue but I do need to get the words on the page before I tell a single soul of what I’m about to write because speaking the words aloud is when I lose the excitement of that First Tell.

]]> By: 2nd Chance http://romancewritersrevenge.com/2009/12/22/hellies-favorite-blog-of-the-year-ill-take-some-chicken-salad/comment-page-1/#comment-30851 2nd Chance Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:09:39 +0000 http://romancewritersrevenge.com/?p=814#comment-30851 I have to agree. Those moments of looking at something completed...those bits of glorious prose that are perfect that make you feel like you are flying... There is nothing like it. Well, people who have kids would say there is... I'm having a perilously fearful day, so it's hard to focus on those bits of wonderful prose. But I hear you, I know them and they are wondrous. I have to agree. Those moments of looking at something completed…those bits of glorious prose that are perfect that make you feel like you are flying… There is nothing like it.

Well, people who have kids would say there is…

I’m having a perilously fearful day, so it’s hard to focus on those bits of wonderful prose. But I hear you, I know them and they are wondrous.

]]> By: Melissa http://romancewritersrevenge.com/2009/12/22/hellies-favorite-blog-of-the-year-ill-take-some-chicken-salad/comment-page-1/#comment-30850 Melissa Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:02:13 +0000 http://romancewritersrevenge.com/?p=814#comment-30850 I say laziness because it's the practice time I know I have to put in. That's laziness. But the fear it's not going to be perfect with even with the effort is, of course, there too. But it's not all negative. Of course, there's that love/hate. Once I battle all the why nots and have something actually written (amazing that it actually happens), I forget each battle it took to get there. Somehow, having written makes me happy. Just that sense of accomplishment. I know it's not perfect. I'm not hating the fact the result isn't perfect as much as I hated the the process. I say laziness because it’s the practice time I know I have to put in. That’s laziness. But the fear it’s not going to be perfect with even with the effort is, of course, there too.

But it’s not all negative. Of course, there’s that love/hate. Once I battle all the why nots and have something actually written (amazing that it actually happens), I forget each battle it took to get there. Somehow, having written makes me happy. Just that sense of accomplishment. I know it’s not perfect. I’m not hating the fact the result isn’t perfect as much as I hated the the process.

]]> By: 2nd Chance http://romancewritersrevenge.com/2009/12/22/hellies-favorite-blog-of-the-year-ill-take-some-chicken-salad/comment-page-1/#comment-30849 2nd Chance Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:42:45 +0000 http://romancewritersrevenge.com/?p=814#comment-30849 Yes, when I show up to do battle. Yes, when I show up to do battle.

]]> By: Melissa http://romancewritersrevenge.com/2009/12/22/hellies-favorite-blog-of-the-year-ill-take-some-chicken-salad/comment-page-1/#comment-30848 Melissa Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:35:49 +0000 http://romancewritersrevenge.com/?p=814#comment-30848 Yeah, but battling fear is a lot of work too. Speaking for myself, I'm lazy no matter what the battle. :) Yeah, but battling fear is a lot of work too. Speaking for myself, I’m lazy no matter what the battle. :)

]]> By: 2nd Chance http://romancewritersrevenge.com/2009/12/22/hellies-favorite-blog-of-the-year-ill-take-some-chicken-salad/comment-page-1/#comment-30847 2nd Chance Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:33:26 +0000 http://romancewritersrevenge.com/?p=814#comment-30847 I don't know if it's laziness. To be perfectly honest... For me, it's fear. Fear that the perfect in my head isn't perfect...that even if it were, it won't be perfect on the paper. Not even perfect enough to be good. I don't battle laziness. I battle fear. I don’t know if it’s laziness. To be perfectly honest… For me, it’s fear. Fear that the perfect in my head isn’t perfect…that even if it were, it won’t be perfect on the paper. Not even perfect enough to be good.

I don’t battle laziness. I battle fear.

]]> By: Melissa http://romancewritersrevenge.com/2009/12/22/hellies-favorite-blog-of-the-year-ill-take-some-chicken-salad/comment-page-1/#comment-30846 Melissa Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:31:52 +0000 http://romancewritersrevenge.com/?p=814#comment-30846 <i>...writers whine so poetically!</i> LOL! Yeah, I know. And it does seem like writing is a lot of practice. I'll admit it. All excuses aside, I'm lazy. LOL …writers whine so poetically!

LOL! Yeah, I know. And it does seem like writing is a lot of practice. I’ll admit it. All excuses aside, I’m lazy. LOL

]]> By: 2nd Chance http://romancewritersrevenge.com/2009/12/22/hellies-favorite-blog-of-the-year-ill-take-some-chicken-salad/comment-page-1/#comment-30845 2nd Chance Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:12:58 +0000 http://romancewritersrevenge.com/?p=814#comment-30845 <i>For me, once I get that perfect scene in my head, it’s like I already told myself the story. Now I have to write it out? </i> Hee, hee. Melissa, writers whine so poetically! Ya caught what hangs me up perfectly. "Mo-o-o-m! I don't wanna practice!" For me, once I get that perfect scene in my head, it’s like I already told myself the story. Now I have to write it out?

Hee, hee. Melissa, writers whine so poetically!

Ya caught what hangs me up perfectly. “Mo-o-o-m! I don’t wanna practice!”

]]> By: Sin http://romancewritersrevenge.com/2009/12/22/hellies-favorite-blog-of-the-year-ill-take-some-chicken-salad/comment-page-1/#comment-30844 Sin Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:42:44 +0000 http://romancewritersrevenge.com/?p=814#comment-30844 <i> It’s not the book of my heart I want to write; it’s the book in my head. In my head, it is perfect. </i> Janga, you said it perfectly ;) It’s not the book of my heart I want to write; it’s the book in my head. In my head, it is perfect.

Janga, you said it perfectly ;)

]]> By: Janga http://romancewritersrevenge.com/2009/12/22/hellies-favorite-blog-of-the-year-ill-take-some-chicken-salad/comment-page-1/#comment-30843 Janga Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:36:10 +0000 http://romancewritersrevenge.com/?p=814#comment-30843 All plotters may be perfectionists, but, believe me, not all perfectionists are plotters. I have been known to spend an hour rewriting a sequence of three sentences. It's not the book of my heart I want to write; it's the book in my head. In my head, it is perfect. All plotters may be perfectionists, but, believe me, not all perfectionists are plotters. I have been known to spend an hour rewriting a sequence of three sentences. It’s not the book of my heart I want to write; it’s the book in my head. In my head, it is perfect.

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