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I'm ashamed to admit (not really, I'm never ashamed of anything I do!!) that I'm
guilty of committing the writer's faux pas. I haven't been writing...
My excuse? I've been tied up in designing, planning, writing, and making this
website happen. The trouble is that I love to play on the web. More
specifically, I love designing, creating, making things "pretty." It's fun.
Writing is fun in a different way. I need both types of fun, but I have this bad
habit of neglecting one for the other.
An author's site is their calling card, especially in this day and age in
which we practically live online. Some of us only love online! And many of us
only publish online. That's not a bad or limiting concept; it's just the way our
world is now. An author's site is not only their public resume and sample of
their work but provides a look into who they are as a personality, a real human
being, that we usually don't get from our favorite authors unless they start up
their own website (and hopefully tell a little something of themselves on it) or
their fans do.
I was in a terrible hurry to get my website finished. I wanted it as my own
support system, something I could turn to if/when I need to remember why I'm
writing in this genre to begin with, a way to meet others like myself and swap
insight and resources. So here it is, and here I am for the world to see.
Now, it's time to get back to writing. I've only put it off a few weeks while
I toiled away at my website work, but that's years in the lifetime of a
writer's creative soul. I've committed the cardinal sin, and now I have to pay
for it.
I don't know quite where to begin. I've been removed from my favorite
markets, my favorite reads, the ideas that were once fresh in my mind. I've been
a good girl and recorded them all to refer to now, but they're no longer burning
to be written as they once were. I know I can rekindle that, but it'll take a
few days.
The first step is to peer over my submission log and see if I need to send
any inquiries about the status of my past submissions or resubmit elsewhere.
It's time to pick a fun market to write for or start with a fun idea from my
list.It's time to leave time for living so
the new ideas, motivation, and passion come whirling back in again. It's time to
give myself that certain kind of creative outlet that really releases me from
the ties of this world and lets me float above, re-energizing and recollecting
myself so I feel more like myself. It's time to live as a writer again.
If you ever hear me admit to neglecting my writing, my passion, again. Just
reach over and slap me back into the right frame of mind. I give you my
permission.
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Tara's Trysts 
