Overextended Brain goes *POP*

Well. I am learning a few things about life through this whole Writing-A-Novel process.


In today’s world you’ve got to promote yourself if you want to get published. You must if you want to get an agent interested enough to look in your general direction. At the beginning of this whole thing I was flush with the excitement of it, needing to stretch my writing a bit, raring to get out there. So I enthusiastically began to participate in the blog-i-verse. My first venture was on a site for LDS mothers.


Then I got together with two of my writer-friends (who are brilliant, by the way, and when they publish trust me, you WANT to buy their books) to create a blog in order to exorcise some of our writing demons, and to generally have a big fat fun time writing together (Challenging the Gnome). Which we are. Getting together for lunch, or Dinner-and-a-Movie, or Snark-and-a-Smoothie, in order to “discuss the blog” *snort* is a tremendously fun stress-relieving activity. 


THEN my writer’s group started a blog called Smashing Stories on which I was invited to post, and which has been a great learning experience. Plus, these are some really cool people and, again, really great writers. Much for me (and you, if you follow it) to absorb there.


On top of all of that, I was asked to contribute an interview/article on LDS Music Universe, a webZine that will release on November 1st, which I happily jumped at and enjoyed.


Guess what? IT’S TOO MUCH. Seriously. I can’t do all of this and be a mother, and a wife, and actively serve in my church, and volunteer in the schools, and be at my kids’ extra-curricular activities, and be a friend, and a member of my own and my extended family, and clean bathrooms, feed my family, and actually write anything that isn’t total drek. My brain has begun to ooze out of my ears.


So. You can do too much. You can stretch your creativity to the snapping point. I need to find balance before my head explodes. Fear not, dear cherubs, for I shall not abandon Thinkery. (Feel free to breathe a collective sigh of relief, as I know your day depends upon your daily dose of The Think  :]. And I love you and am so grateful for you!) But I shall be figuring out how to do all of this in the proper order.


I’m quite certain this is what writing–and life–depends on, if you want to do it successfully: doing things in order. First things first. Making lists, checking them twice, finding out which activities are naughty and which are nice (Okay, how many shopping-days left until Christmas? I’m starting to feel it. You?) And making sure you keep it that way. Otherwise, how can anything we do benefit anyone but the general chaos that loves to hang out around the edges of our lives?


It’s all good and I’ll figure it out. Learning is our friend. Suggestions are welcome.


See you tomorrow!