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Why I Write
When I write, I draw on my experiences as a woman with a painful past, a rapturous wife and mother, a world traveler, and a spiritualist. For me, writing is an art form. Like an artist, the work becomes more than I imagined it would be. When I set out to write a story with a particular idea or character in mind, words I cannot claim as my own flow from a magical and mysterious place through me and onto paper. The work takes on a life of its own; it is living art. The process fascinates me, satiates me, and makes my life more meaningful. Please read my stories! If you would like to offer me feedback on my work, please click here and sign up for a free membership: https://heftynicki.Writing.com I hope to see you there!
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*Star*In 2011, my main focus will be on writing a novel. Since I'm a novice novelist, I've decided to come at the project from different angles, exploring the genre and experimenting with its elements. This blog and its offsite sister blog will be my journals where I attack novel-writing one day at a time.

As I was creating my BlogSpot page, the inspiration for the blog solidified in my mind. I named that blog "One Significant Moment at a Time." In essence, I want to use the format as a reminder to walk through my life with my author's eyes open, taking in the details, feeling the emotions of the day. As moments unfold and I feel their affects on me as a person, a woman, a mother, a sister, a member of the world community, I'll let the writer in me talk about it.

Creative Nonfiction is the genre most fitting to describe what I envision accomplishing here, moreso than blogging or journaling. The style is best suited, I feel, for my ambitions as a novelist.

In addition, Friday entries will not be written by me. Instead, I'll turn the keyboard over to one of the characters in my novel. He or she will relate the events of the day as s/he saw them, through the filter of his or her perception.


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November 2, 2009 at 4:29pm
November 2, 2009 at 4:29pm
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This process is KILLING me! I'm trying to embrace the "write-by-the-seat-of-my-pants" method for writing, but it feels foreign and strange right now. I'm 4300+ words into Nano, and the actual word vomit on the screen is not good *Frown* Am I the only one that's dealing with a real first draft, for the first time?

I have to say, though, (even though the whole thing sounded like my diaries from my teenage years! *Worry*) as I wrote about the protagonist yesterday, I had several light bulb moments when I felt her character take a step out of the shadows. I've got to hang onto the belief that that's the point of writing like this. When you turn off your internal editor, close your eyes, and just let the words gush out of your head and onto the screen, you get "first thoughts." First thoughts are raw and ragged around the edges, but they hold the greatest energy of anything you will write.

Wrimos everywhere must be dealing with the same feelings I'm having. I have to do what they're doing: stop worrying about it, and write. Don't think. Don't talk. Just write. My dear friend Tornado Day Author IconMail Icon shared what she says to herself, and I promised myself I'd make it my Nano mantra: Just shut up and write!



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