The Family Girl Blogs (aka "The New Working Girl Blogs") Blog #3: Getting back to writing To see all of Bobbie's Family Girl Blogs, click on this link: http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book/28818/family-girl-blogs

After about seven months of being away from BC, I finally posted a new story.

Well, to be more accurate, seventeen months since I posted a story, and seven months since my last regular blog. There's a long story behind that, but suffice it to say, I'm back, and I was able to knock together a story.

I'm sure there were a few who were disappointed that it wasn't the next part of the "real" Danny story, and that it was just one of those quicky day-in-the-life ones like that other one I wrote before. But I'm getting to that.

I have been having trouble finishing my Danny story, so I've   been writing other stuff to sort of get me started writing BCTS-type stories again.   I thought I needed to have some practice first - being away from BC for more than seven months seems to have affected my writing "skills", as paltry as they are.   So I have been clicking and clacking away, trying to get it going. My house mate has been curious as to what I've been typing away at, but I haven't shown her any of my half-baked stuff.

Anyway, because of this, I now have lots of bits and pieces of stuff for my two other stories here in BC, as well as for lots of new ones:   I have the next installments of my Library and Witching Hour stories well on the way now, as well as stuff for a Transformers story, a space epic, an adventure-type story, a scifi transformation story and a semi-autobiographical love story. (As you see, I am very ambitious...)

I guess, being in a different place in my life now, everything changed, and it's difficult to pick up where one left off.   It takes a while, I guess, to get that mindset back, of being able to write the same kind of stuff as before.   Truly, I have been busting my buns to try and get Danny Part 7 done, but it's going real slow despite my trying real hard.   I've shown parts of what I've already written to some friends from BC, just to get some encouragement, and hopefully to get me more motivated   (thanks, by the way, guys!).   I have high hopes that I'll get it done soon.

Anyway, with all this practice writing, I was able to piece together something - one that was a Danny story as well as being a nod to one of the  stories I like here in BC, called "The Center."

I have heard of such things happening to real writers and other artistic people, about how big life changes change them enough that they have trouble writing, like Ernest Hemingway or Tolstoi, for example, although I am not saying I am even in shouting distance of a Hemingway (although some people have commented on the similarity of my work with "A Farewell To Arms" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls".... heeheehee). And, like my pal Ernest, I struggle through my own form of writer's block. Hopefully, like Ernie, I will conquer it.

Perhaps this new post will be the start of more regular posting and blogging for me.

So... Be warned... Mwahahahahah!

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