New Book!! Sister Cassidy

Hey everyone, here's a quick plug. It's a little late but here you go. Volume 2 of the Weird West is out.  Sister Cassidy follows Harriet to new town where she finds her sister wrapped up in an ancient war against life and and the undead. Check it out on Amazon or kindle today. Keep reading everyone.

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Write damn you!

Good morning strangers! At least it's morning here in the lovely land of enchantment. Perhaps if it is morning where or when you're reading this. Even if your mornings are 5 in the evening because thats when you wake up.  If not, it doesn't matter. Good afternoon, evening, or night whatever your current status of day it is.
I write to you today hoping that this post will be a call to action. Something to stir your creative pots as it were. Sure the post is telling you to write with an exclamtion point, but i want you to replace the word write with whatever it is you do. If you happen to write then lucky you.
I recently went through an illness. Nothing harrowing mind you but only a simple cold. It was enough though that I had to miss some work and my lovely wife took care of me. On this paricular week I found it very difficult to get my thoughts on paper. When one is suffering through sinus headaches, dripping nasal passages, a sore throat, and being doped up on several medicines and herbs. It can be hard to sit up and deliver a chapter of a fantastic story. I'm sure many of you can relate to the diffuculties of being knocked off of your creative feet by a bad cough. 
Now I'm sure some of you are like I struggle through because if I dont do my thing I don't get paid. Fortunately for me though writing isn't my full time job, at least not yet. At the moment it's only my second, so I can afford the luxury of a few days off.
Now though I'm back on the wagon as it were. It was easy to get distracted by everything else while lying in bed and consuming endless media. Even more so now that I'm better, becaue now I'm hooked into the stream of consumption not creation. Oh I want to write but maybe after one more quest or one more episode of the flash, but one more turns into five and now it's past midnight and I'm falling asleep.
If you find yourself in a similar slump then I have the solution. Are you ready for it? It's to write! Or whatever your form of art or passion might be. Get back to your project! Put down that remote or controller and do your thing. When I put pen back to paper and got fhe first sentence out it was like I couldn't stop, and then hours passed and I had another chapter and I felt great. I felt artisticly eased and the guilt was gone from avoiding writing.
Break out of your artistic lull and pick up that pen, that brush, or dust off that key board. Pick up that instrument or that power tool and get to work...or don't whatever I'm not your mother. I guarantee though once you do you'll feel so much better and be reconnected to the pulse of the things you're into and the people that take pleasure from what you do.
Now go home. Do your thing damnit!

Draft work

What is it about reviewing and editing a draft that makes it feel so rewarding. Is it because you are birthing something into existence that wasn't ib the workd before? Is that the right analogy? As a writer can you accurately compare yourself to that if a new mother giving birth to child?

Kinda, maybe?

While the child is in the womb we dont look it over and over again trying to change it. We only try to mold it after its been releases into the wild and given its wits to survive. Then we can trybto shape it into a somewhat functioning adult. So maybe writing a new book isnt quite the same.

I suppose it would be closer to assume that we like blacksmiths hammering away at our manuscripts. Making them the sharoest and most lethal weapons we can imagine, or fashioning cookware and s hooks. Depends on the kind of blacksmith you wish to be i suppose.

These analogies I hear quite often. It makes me wonder does anyone else have writing analogies for line of work. Like perhaps its the opposite. Does an expecting mother think if her newborn as a new book shes releasing into the world, to be judged and loved by millions?

Hm. Thats not a bad comparison.

Whether or not it does happen i cant help but think these things while working on my current manuscript. I'm on my third run through it and I can't help but think these things. In the process I tend to like the blacksmith analogy because i feel like with each time I go through it, it just gets better and sharper. Plot holes get filled, characters become more defined, and scenery becomes more clear. If only we could harness thus editing and revision to our lives perhaps we could become the sharp deadly weapons of the world we strive to be...

Or not thats a little far fetched. I mean come on half us can't use there, their, they're correctly.