So I've recently quit my job as an insurance agent, and I've been thinking, "What am I doing?" I have been talking a lot to the people close to me about my life recently and the biggest thing I have figured out for myself is, "Keep it simple". Same thing, I suppose, could be said about my writing. Trying to do this and that to make it more complex doesn't mean I am making it more interesting. In fact, I may be muddling it up enough to make it unappealing for anyone to read. So as I'm going through life, trying to uncomplicated it, I am going to start going through my writing doing the same thing. Is that extra character or plot line really going to add more flavor or life to my piece? Is that second job, driving around all the time on my own money going to make me better off, or really make my life any better in the long run? If I can approach my life in this new year the same way I approach my writing, and visa-verse, then things should turn out for the better. In my own opinion. Okay, hopping off the soapbox now since I have four Siberian Huskies wrestling on the bed demanding my alpha attention!
~Shanny
~Shanny