Comments on: Gone http://michellemiles.net/blog/2007/02/20/gone/ published author / hockey fan / shoe fanatic / coffee lover Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:33:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Sarah Duncan http://michellemiles.net/blog/2007/02/20/gone/comment-page-1/#comment-6542 Sarah Duncan Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:31:23 +0000 http://michellemiles.net/blog/2007/02/20/gone/#comment-6542 Hi Michelle, from a fellow romance writer sick in bed with a bad cold. Google alerts picked up your blog as Nice Girls Do is the title of my latest novel coming out in the US in the next couple of weeks (I'm from the UK). I write full time, in the sense that I don't have any other employment, but spend most of my time procrastinating and bitching about the writing. Hey, that's just how some of us work. We're not machines! So give yourself a break. I'd love to be one of those writers who writes 9-5 every day, but that's not how my creativity works. Good luck with your books, and don't let your writing become a chore ATB Sarah Hi Michelle, from a fellow romance writer sick in bed with a bad cold. Google alerts picked up your blog as Nice Girls Do is the title of my latest novel coming out in the US in the next couple of weeks (I’m from the UK). I write full time, in the sense that I don’t have any other employment, but spend most of my time procrastinating and bitching about the writing. Hey, that’s just how some of us work. We’re not machines! So give yourself a break. I’d love to be one of those writers who writes 9-5 every day, but that’s not how my creativity works. Good luck with your books, and don’t let your writing become a chore
ATB Sarah

]]> By: Joyce http://michellemiles.net/blog/2007/02/20/gone/comment-page-1/#comment-6541 Joyce Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:18:14 +0000 http://michellemiles.net/blog/2007/02/20/gone/#comment-6541 WHAT NONSENSE!!! You are in a slump, you have been sick, quit worrying about everything. Give yourself a little time to heal. You have done so much in the last year that is fabulous! PUT A SOCK IN IT and CHILL! from Dr. Ma Deuce WHAT NONSENSE!!! You are in a slump, you have been sick, quit worrying about everything. Give yourself a little time to heal. You have done so much in the last year that is fabulous! PUT A SOCK IN IT and CHILL!

from Dr. Ma Deuce

]]> By: Sophisticated Writer http://michellemiles.net/blog/2007/02/20/gone/comment-page-1/#comment-6540 Sophisticated Writer Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:19:18 +0000 http://michellemiles.net/blog/2007/02/20/gone/#comment-6540 I have been feeling like that lately too Mik. By the way, colds do wonders to anyone's head. I am always so tired and depressed. Plus, as you say, it clogs the head so it's like no thoughts can pass through :evil:. Yes, you need a break and a fun weekend. You simply have a writer's block right now and that is due to stress, your cold and many other things. I assure you it happens all the time. BUT DON'T QUIT. And don't say it again. And Mik when you have the time please check out my fictional blog "Diary of a Killer" http://madisonsrevenge.blogspot.com And please let me know what you think. Be well and take care. I have been feeling like that lately too Mik. By the way, colds do wonders to anyone’s head. I am always so tired and depressed. Plus, as you say, it clogs the head so it’s like no thoughts can pass through :evil: .

Yes, you need a break and a fun weekend. You simply have a writer’s block right now and that is due to stress, your cold and many other things. I assure you it happens all the time.

BUT DON’T QUIT. And don’t say it again.

And Mik when you have the time please check out my fictional blog “Diary of a Killer”
http://madisonsrevenge.blogspot.com

And please let me know what you think.

Be well and take care.

]]> By: Voodoo http://michellemiles.net/blog/2007/02/20/gone/comment-page-1/#comment-6539 Voodoo Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:15:48 +0000 http://michellemiles.net/blog/2007/02/20/gone/#comment-6539 You goof. You'll be just fine. You go thru this every now and then and your Muse is just napping. You goof. You’ll be just fine. You go thru this every now and then and your Muse is just napping.

]]> By: Devon Ellington http://michellemiles.net/blog/2007/02/20/gone/comment-page-1/#comment-6538 Devon Ellington Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:17:09 +0000 http://michellemiles.net/blog/2007/02/20/gone/#comment-6538 It's because you don't write every day. Every day you stay away from it, it's harder to get back. Look at the writers you admire -- who are regularly publishing books. Look at the writers who are on the best seller lists. They look at it as their job as well as their passion. Having said that, there's nothing wrong with taking a leave of absence occassionally. Maybe you need to do that, let the stories build up again inside of you, and then sit down and craft a BUSINESS plan for your writing career. There's nothing wrong in pantsing your work, if that process works for you; but you can't pants your career. So, take time off to refresh, and then tackle it again with a fresh start. It’s because you don’t write every day. Every day you stay away from it, it’s harder to get back.

Look at the writers you admire — who are regularly publishing books. Look at the writers who are on the best seller lists.

They look at it as their job as well as their passion.

Having said that, there’s nothing wrong with taking a leave of absence occassionally. Maybe you need to do that, let the stories build up again inside of you, and then sit down and craft a BUSINESS plan for your writing career.

There’s nothing wrong in pantsing your work, if that process works for you; but you can’t pants your career.

So, take time off to refresh, and then tackle it again with a fresh start.

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