Category: Marsha L Floyd

  • DAY 23- NOT WRITING : Can you see it?

    I thought about writing yesterday but I was busy grocery shopping. I traveled with a notepad and made a few notes and I spent time thinking about writing. I think it is better to visualize your manuscript before you start writing. Habakkuk 2:2 comes to mind again. Habakkuk 2:2-3 (KJV)2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision,…

  • DAY 21 #2 Not NaNoWriMO

    Yes, I am still writing but I am not writing. I am not writing for National Novel Writing Month, I am writing to complete a manuscript.I have tried to write about dating for quite a while. I know the general direction I want to go in however I am struggling with the introductory statement. One of the issues I was…

  • DAY 21 NaNoWriMo Time for me to move on

    A decision has been made, I am no longer participating in NaNoWriMo. I have reached a point in my writing in which I want to focus on quality and not quantity, I do not want to wait until after the writing marathon to edit but want to and have been editing as I go.Yesterday, Sunday, I wrote over 2 thousand…

  • DAY 20 National Novel Writing Month- A WRITING BREAKTHROUGH!

    An unexpected opportunity to write, or perhaps not. Yesterday I wrote about writing challenges, various life events can become a greater priority than writing. Developing a lifestyle that anticipates annual events such as holidays, advanced notices such as weddings and unexpected happenings such as illness or funerals helps maintain the discipline needed to writing, especially when writing is not a…

  • DAY 19 National Novel Writing Month – Holiday distractions

    There are holidays in which writing is not a problem: Memorial Day, 4th of July, Veterans’ Day and even Valentine’s Day but, writing during Thanksgiving and Christmas is a challenge. If you have a full time job, in a relationship and it is the holiday season a decision has to be made: To write or not to write; it is…

  • DAY 18- NaNoWriMo God is my Editor / Publisher

    Today I actually did some writing before I started writing my daily thoughts. Eighteen days into NaNoWriMo and I have decided to start writing my mini-book. It will be about six-thousand words and hopefully I can get it published in January as an ebook of course! But, I am not excited about that.It’s the burden of being a Christian Writer…