Living the Fictional Dream

Hello out there in blog-land.

Sorry to have been so absent of late. The summer was even crazier than my usual life. I was in the hospital for several weeks with complications for baby #2. After our new daughter arrived, that brought a whole new level of hectic. How does anyone have time to write or blog with a 13-month-old and a newborn in the house? And now, my maternity leave is over (boo-hoo!), and I’m headed back to work.

After missing most of the writing group meetings this summer, I finally got back into it at the September meeting. We’re trying an experiment, a challenge, as it were. Write 250 words every day in the month of October. I’m not doing stellar — I’ve only managed to write 600 or so words and it’s already the 6th. However, this challenge was about inspiration, not pressure, and I’m hopeful that perhaps I’ll get a few more written over the course of the month.

The writing I did is some twiddling of the new novel idea that’s been bouncing around in my head for the past year or so. It came from a dream I had while pregnant with my first darling daughter. We’ll see if anything comes of it.

I have some other posts in mind about some reading that I’ve done lately; so, here’s hoping that I find the time to put fingers to keyboard.

I hope all is going well for my blogging and writing friends out there, and that you all have big word counts!