I found the key!!
*Note to the wise…you're better off writing your blog in Word first then publish it from there….one too many times have I accidently hit the backspace or click on a link…only to go back and my entire blog has disappeared! Which is what happened today. That will happen no more my friends!
Now moving on to rewrite the entire blog I did early this morning…
Hi all!
I know it's been awhile since I blogged and the last one was kind of weird looking so I guess I will explain that first.
What you saw, the highlight word red with parentheses around are links to the project red site. For those of you who don't know, project red is an organization that raises awareness and funds to help people in Africa with AIDS. I have an uncle who passed away from this, as does my husband, and this is a cause that is near and dear to our hearts. You can click on anyone of those links and it will take you to their website. There are so many companies that are affiliated with them and a portion of your purchase goes to them. So if you were going to buy a laptop, why not buy a project (red) one instead. Our particular favorite in the Russ home is Converse Chuck Taylors. Any little bit helps. You can even go to their site directly and donate if you don't want to buy something.
Moving on…
The reason I haven't been on lately. I managed to get sucked into the Twilight phenomenon…lol I know crazy right? I don't even know how that happened…wait, that's a like I know exactly how it happened.
It started with the movie. It premiered on TV, January 23 (I looked it up ^_^) on Showtime. Alex and I decided, what the heck let's watch and see what all the fuss was about. It was a good enough movie, I liked it. A little bit of action a lot a bit of romance. Don't get me wrong I like a romantic movie as much as the next girl, but I'm totally into fast cars crashing, guns blazing and awesome fight scenes. On the same note, the right romance will get some tears out of me. But I digress…as I often do…
So after the movie, my curiosity was piqued.
I knew that the movie was based on a book that had young girls and moms alike going gaga. Even my good friend Roro was entranced with the books for a time. For a good long while every time she came over to our house, her nose and eyes would be glued into one of the books. I remember picking one up one time and thumbing through it. I flipped the pages and stopped at a random page and began to read for a few minutes. I remember exactly where it was. It was the page where Edward shows Bella just how fast he can run. The writing was good. I put the book down and shrugged it off. I don't think Roro was even to that part yet.
I'm the type of person who if I've seen a movie and I know it's based on a book, I want to know if the book is as good or better than the movie. So I decided to read Twilight. For research purposes, I told myself.
One thing I've learned: About 95% of the time the book is ALWAYS better than the movie. Twilight was no exception. The movie did the book very well, but it still wasn't nearly as good as reading the actually book. Stephanie Meyers is an amazing writer! Her imagery is so vivid at times you feel like you're there, sometime you feel like you're actually Bella. Which spurred my moderate obsession with Twilight. I spent the next week reading all of the books, barely moving, losing sleep because I couldn't put it down, utterly exhausted, but in love and inspired.
Then I read Stephanie's story, which is also AMAZING! She was a stay at home mom who had a dream of Edward and Bella (of course they were nameless then) and she began to write about them. And turns them into to a phenomenon.
Then I thought to myself: I am a stay at home mom. I am a write. A damn good writer if I say so myself. And that's when I found the key that unlocked years of writer's block. Having that type of mental block is like losing a limb, or having some kind of impotency. A writer not being able to write is almost like an asthmatic not being able to breathe (which, I also know plenty about having asthma). A writer needs to write like an asthmatic needs to breathe. It's a life necessity.
And so, I began to write, and I haven't stopped since. Even if it's just jotting down notes in my journal, or thinking of something in while out grocery shopping and writing it in my iPhone, or being out with my husband getting sloppy drunk and something comes to mind (another blog for another time…)
And last night I had a writer's breakthrough! I'd been trying to figure out how to integrate something in the store that was a key element to the story and I refused to change how it happened, but I needed details leading up to it. And last night as I was doing research (for something else no less) it all clicked and I began to write. And write and write! I wrote for hours straight, exhausted and wanting to stop, but know I couldn't because if I did I would forget something and it would take forever to remember. So I typed until every thought was drained out!
It felt like a natural high! I was thrilled.
So now, I continue to write. And I look forward to sharing the details of my writing with you all!
Well gotta go the baby is awake!
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