Writing two stories at one time. This is a challenge.

My problem isn't the writing, it's the rewriting and the details. I should take a course in writing. But I hated writing in college. Our professors wrote scarcastic stuff like, "could a person really do that?" I got so I couldn't write anything without imagining scarcastic responces to everything I wrote. I took two courses in English because I had to. One was Intro to Composition which turned me off to writing for years and the other was Poetry Appreciation. The second was a fun course.

Well, maybe some day you'll get a good one from your dreams. This is weird because most of my life, I haven't remembered my dreams at all. But my cats wake me up early, menopause is waking me up a lot, going to the bathroom a lot, etc. I can't sleep for very long. I might as well get something out of all of this!

No, my Professors were a pain in the A$$ to everyone and I had to take the class over. I almost ended up being thrown out of the Teaching program because they said I only earned a D. So I retook it and just barely received a C. Even with a C, they wanted to throw me out of teaching, I had to fight to stay in. They did NOT see potential. They say me doing something else with my life entirely that did NOT involve writing.

Thanks! So far, that's exactly what I've been doing and it's been a lot of fun!

not skipping the story, skipping the boring part...

Maybe I'll skip the boring part on the rewrite, but it did make a segway to another part. Take care.

I'm having too much fun to skip both of those stories.

Exactly! I find these two stories lots of fun! Hope you're loving yours, too!

Actually, that hasn't been a problem because my life is so crazy that I end up with lots of work all of a sudden or have to go bottle collecting to pay bills or something. I have one story that I just left in the middle and I need to go back to it. But I don't really feel like it right now. I had too many characters and too many stories. It was like a soap opera. You had two people here with one set of problems. Then another two with another set of problems. Then two people observing all the people with problems. Then some other things got thrown in and the entire thing didn't even go where I wanted it to go. It became a mess, so it's sitting in a box. If it was difficult for me to let loose of them, then I guess rewriting several times wouldn't be a problem. Since they're imagination stuff and not persuation or facts that people need to know to raise children well or to stop environmental destruction, I'm not very heavily invested in them. I probably would be if I developed the characters more. Take care.

But isn't it difficult to let lose of them once you are finished?

Yeah, just as I hit the post square, I thought of a way to do just that. Thanks and take care.

This is working out better than I thought. Probably because the stories and characters are nothing alike.

Just for me. For years people have said to write down your dreams and for years, I couldn't remember any. Now with menopause and constantly getting up in the middle of the night, it's easy!

Maybe I should get Dragon. Hopes it works with Macs. Besides there will not be anyone thinking weird about me because I do talk to myself a lot. It would save me from sitting down and spreading my seat when I should be working.

Thank you very much for the words of encouragement. 6th draft, huh. We'll see. I'm thinking about getting dragon writing so I can say it and the computer will write it for me. Whatever I do with my hands, I have to switch to every other day.

I'm not sure if there is a mac version or not. I've heard that someday, all the computers may have that as a feature. My husband's computer came with a read it to me feature. That's for blind, low vision and LD for reading people.

True! Esp. when it's dreams or you forget!

Sounds like an interesting topic. Nice to hear from you again pergammano! In this case, I'm writing based on dreams (my imagination), so I have to go back and dream some more. The bogged down is mostly my logical mind trying to get all factual in the middle of a fantacy piece, One doesn't really go too well with the other sometimes.

Actually, it's not too bad. They're both fun and I can't wait to see what my sub-conscious dreams up next. I had one that was terrific, a long time ago that I never finished. I had so many layers of some many things and so many characters that I got lost. But these two stories are simpler. I'm not trying to right all the wrongs of society, just have one goal for each one. They do other things along the way, but one main goal. Like one is trying to find and use powers. The other is two sisters trying to find treasure.

Thanks, maybe. We'll see where my dreams lead me. Take care.

Interesting. Could make a good short story collection of sci-fi and fantasy.

I'm finding that now, too!