This week, I'm hosting Stacey Bee in the Mountain Spring House Publishing Blog Tour! Stacey is a mother of four on the coast of Florida, who writes a little bit of everything-- screenplays, short stories, animation, fiction, children's stories, and more!
Our theme of the week: Pet Peeves! This is what Stacey has to say about hers.
Pet Peeves, we all have them ranging from something small to outright
rage instances. For a writer pet peeves are major distractions that
disrupt our flow of creativity, and can result in a meltdown.
For me, pet peeve #1, begin with missing pens and paper!
I love to write free hand then transfer my writings to my Mac.
However, having four kids things like pens and paper have always seemed
to have been a free for all for them and a luxury for me. It don’t
matter if it is notebook paper or printer paper when my little Picasso’s
have art on their mind I can kiss my paper good bye. Then like a mad
woman I am running around looking for more, praying to keep my idea
fresh in my mind!
Pet peeve #2, When I am happily (or not) writing along and my Mac,
iPad whatever decides that it is going to freeze for some reason or shut
down because I wasn’t paying attention to my low battery and I cannot
work any more. Worse yet, suddenly and all my work is lost. I am forever
grateful when I have that hard copy to fall back onto! If not, I will
surely loose my mind, and cry at all I have lost.
Pet peeve #3 of mine is when people THINK they KNOW what it is
exactly that us writers do… WE JUST WRITE! Sure we are intelligent and
well educated but good things take time! They have this grand illusion
that we walk up to our computers and pour out our souls like it is
nothing to whip up complete books, or movie scripts in minutes. Nothing
could be further from the truth. It is painstaking, creative torture
some days to get perhaps even a single complete sentence out, let alone
everything we wish to accomplish! Some days we are just a plethora of
great ideas or page after page of writing that is sunshine for our
souls!
What people don’t realize is that most days to even get to the
picture perfect story written or edited or simply get a decent amount
of pages we wish to get out of our brains is impossible enough, let
alone have someone discredit our abilities. Let’s see them create the
worlds in which we do!
Pet peeve #4, when a writer looses their writings! It is tragedy when
a writer looses their writing. We just want to drop to out knees,
pulling a Marlon Brando only we scream “Why, why me?? Dear God why
me??? What ever have I done to deserve such malice??? “
It ain’t easy being an non-paid, under paid, under appreciated, not feeling the love writer……
Stacey's personal blog can be followed at Stacey's Blog.
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