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This month it is easy for me to write for the Insecure Writer’s Support Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After the high of writing daily for the A to Z Blogging Challenge I am crashing hard. Not about blogging, I LOVE to blog. Blogging for me is like having a newspaper column, which I\u2019ve always thought would be the absolute coolest thing in the world. I loved Erma Bombeck<\/a> (God rest her soul), enjoy Leonard Pitts<\/a> (I don\u2019t always agree, but he writes so well), and laugh with Joel Stein<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But writing, as in finishing the rough draft of my children\u2019s middle grade book, or getting back in the swing of my chick lit novel that I started with NaNoWiMo 2010<\/u>, or writing something to submit for publication? I can\u2019t seem to get into any of it. I kick myself for not writing diligently when I worked less hours, I should have finished long ago.<\/p>\n

I’ve read so many good books lately, and several “okay” ones (one perk of Kindle is getting to try books for free). I don’t have to be a bestseller, and it’s okay if not everyone likes my stories, but they need to be good.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I wonder if I am<\/i><\/b> a writer, obviously I don\u2019t have it burning in my \u201cgut\u201d. Perhaps I have nothing worthwhile to say.<\/p>\n

But, time marches on and whining about all of this does nothing. So I will continue to do what I can, cut myself some slack and become more disciplined at the same time – and we’ll see what happens.<\/p>\n

I do know that nothing happens if you quit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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