Write Away

Things you can't do when you're writing a novel:

1. Sleep
2. Talk on the phone
3. Cook dinner
   
4. Surf the net
5. Go shopping
6. Put on make-up
7. Read a novel
8. Pay your bills
9. Make your bed
10. Write a decent blog post.
    

Things you can do when you're writing a novel:

Have so much fun writing a scene that you forget to eat.

“So, what’s your real name, Turk?” Ruby said.

“Ain’t you ever heard of courtesy, girl?” Turk asked, surprised.

“Laws, I was raised on courtesy! When I was a girl and a stranger showed up at our ranch, Ma always offered food. And my daddy gave him tobacco. In fact, he tacked a note to the door when we was gone that said, ‘Help yourself to grub—please feed the chickens.”

Turk smiled. “What if they was on the dodge from the law?”

“Most of ‘em probably was, but my folks allowed them their privacy. After one cowboy had finished his dinner I asked him what his name was. ‘Jones is the name,’ he said. As soon as he rode off, Ma laid into me for being so ill-mannered as to ask any man his name.”

“So why you askin’ me, if you know it’s an impoliteness?”

“Because you’re not a stranger—you’re a friend.”

The old man looked at Ruby fondly. “It’s ‘cause you’re a friend that I’ll keep it to ‘Turk.’ Don’t want you influenced by my past.”

“You think I’d judge? After all the mud I’m draggin’ through? Come on, how’d you turn into a cook? Just tell me that.” She got out a cigar and handed it to him. “Let’s set outside a bit,” she said, knowing he couldn’t resist a smoke and an audience at the same time.

"The secret of success is to get up in the morning,
and go to bed at night,
and in between do something you want to do."
Bob Dylan

*Homework:

~Make a list of ten things you want to do.

~Do one of them today.

~Enjoy success!