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Aug

Will I Ever Write Fiction Again?

   Posted by: GG Vandagriff   in Writing

Seriously, I need to be two people.  One who is left-brained, and one who is right-brained.  My right brain is currently starving.  I don’t remember a time in the last month when I have written fiction.  I hope I can remember how.  Instead, I have been:

1.) recovering from hip replacement surgery

2.) writing a new non-fiction gift book: Embracing Abundance

3.) planning, doing, promoting, and organizing myself for book tours (see Appearances page on my website http://ggvandagriff.com.) for The Last Waltz.

4.) submitting expenses

5.) planning, promoting, and organizing my upcoming Internet launch of my latest Alex and Briggie mystery, The Hidden Branch (see previous post).

6.) learning to Twitter

7.) traveling on book tours

8.) doing local signings

9.) helping launch my niece Emily into wedded bliss (she is now in Thailand rock climbing)

10.) entertaining my beloved grandson, Jack with (“You wanna pway wight sabers with me?”) no regard for my hip.

11.) doing a spa day and Booksellers with my daughter, Buffy.

12.) feeding my sons

13.) letting my husband do the laundry, grocery shopping, and run the roomba around the house like a crazy man.

14.) lunching with all my beloved friends and family.

15.) gaining weight.

I don’t foresee fiction in my future until after we return from Florence in mid-October.  Then it will be a wild ride as I entangle the lives of four women and somehow get them out better than before in Crazy Ladies of Oakwood: Vol. One–The Escapade.  I figure it might take a year.

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4 comments so far

 1 

Every time I finish writing a novel, I wonder if I’ll ever be able to do it again. Good luck with everything!

August 19th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
 2 

My problem isn’t that I have a dearth of ideas, it’s that I have too many! I have my next four novels planned, and then there’s the sequel to Waltz, which will probably never get written, because I won’t live that long. I envy you your youth! You have a great career now and it is just going to get better! I can testify that with age comes guile (your plots will twist ever more tightly until your fans cry out for mercy!)

August 19th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Ouiser
 3 

Ha…you goofy girl…..you always manage to bounce back with gusto and look beautiful taboot. I have no worries about you…you will do well and better than well….it will be GREAT.
Love….Abee

August 19th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
 4 

I understand crazy busy. But it’s better than the alternative… I’ll let you fill in the blank. You must take some amazing vitamins to be able to keep up with your hectic schedule. I have a book nagging at me to be written, and again, the no-time thing gets in the way. I understand what you’re going through.

August 20th, 2009 at 8:09 am

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