Holiday season blisters a path toward us as we write our merry way to insanity. Writers often feel their craft delivers insanity to their mental doorsteps. We work hard to kill the verb "to be", yet it creeps into every mundane sentence we write. Very possibly, the verb "to be" creates these mundane sentences for us.
These verbs - is, was, were, have been, has been, etc. - flock to our brains like birds from a Hitchcock movie. They invade our otherwise pristine plots and dilute our otherwise brilliant characters until one day we wake up, read our manuscript with an objective eye, and cry. Our baby can't be this ugly! We thought we used only the cream of word-genes.
Yet there the manuscript stands, some bride of Frankenstein that owns no happy ending - at least not in our disappointed writer's eyes. Hope only breeds once we walk away, leave the words to simmer and we determine to go back with the delete-key-scalpel and fix that which offends.
Holidays embrace families, traditions and other wonderful aspects of life. Writers write about holidays but if truly dedicated, observe them only when they complete their daily writing goals. Otherwise the holiday becomes an excuse to not write.
The Rogues have numerous writing projects in the works. Rebekah Hunter Scott strives to finish up edits on her magnificent book Motherhood is Easy. Jeff Swesky diligently works on cleaning up his first draft of the autobiography Flight From Fear. Michael Ray King juggles the collaborative effort Writing is Easy written by all the Rogues along with his personal projects The Seven Day Rose and Loves Lost and Found.
The Rogues intend to spend the holidays basking in the knowledge and glow and satisfaction of writing well-done. Do not deny us our desire to reach our goals, and most definitely do not deny us the thrill of holidays fulfilled by achievements in our writing lives. We take no days off unless we decide to slack off - and this we love. Bring on the holidays!
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