Comments on: Top Five Writing Roadblocks

By: Lori

Lori — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:54:33 +0000

LOL! Caught in the act myself, Susan. 🙂 Have a nice week.

By: Susan Johnston

Susan Johnston — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:43:57 +0000

Here I am avoiding the mountains of work by commenting on blogs. You caught me! This is very true. And now, time to get back to work for me!

By: Lori

Lori — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:13:24 +0000

Andrew, do you have time to even sit down? 🙂 Sounds like you're extremely busy. I love your dismaying stories – it's great to see that even the most complex-sounding life issues have solutions.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 02:38:11 +0000

Wow, this post hits me where it hurts. I've been working one full-time job as a professor (and just been assigned the job of assistant dean) another part-time job as Vice President of a software company, plus trying to get my first novel published (thanks again for your supportive comment on the advance peek of the first chapter on Acrimoney), plus trying to ramp up some momentum again on my blog (and by the way, I just posted a new Dismaying Story), plus doing all the regular-life stuff with 3 teenagers … so it is REALLY hard to find the emotional energy to work on the new novel. I can squeeze in some time to sit down to the laptop, but by then I'm a wet noodle from all the other stuff I've done that day. And then I beat myself up because it feels like I am just making excuses. But I *will* persevere! :o)

By: Lori

Lori — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 05:21:45 +0000

Isn't it the truth, Suzanne? And I'm the same with email. Used to be my old Outlook would pop up a screen that you had to click on in order to keep working. The new one flashes a notice in the corner, which is so much better. I've gone a whole 30 minutes without checking. LOL

Me too, Jeff. :)

By: The Word Of Jeff

The Word Of Jeff — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 02:20:08 +0000

I do pretty well on numbers 1-4, but #5 bites me all the time. However, I'm working on it! 🙂

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:00:31 +0000

Love #2 — I forced myself to switch to Google as my home page several months ago for that very reason. Yahoo presented far too many distractions. My other personal roadblock is obsessively checking my e-mail. I'm fairly certain the world won't spin off its axis if I check less frequently, but I am just compelled to see if there are any new messages every 10 minutes.

By: Lori

Lori — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 12:28:13 +0000

Good point, Stacy. I can go on for days about nothing in particular. :) But if that's a client's time and dime, I have to understand their market and their audience.

Paula, I'm utterly jealous of your snow. We had a handful of gorgeous flakes yesterday. Nothing seemed to hit the ground, which has been frozen stiff for weeks.

I listened to friends amazed that predictions are that we won't get as much snow as we did last year. Since we broke freaking snowfall records last year, that's a no-brainer. (the weather people around here are completely out of touch with nature, I swear.) But you live in the country long enough, you can feel it coming.

By: Paula

Paula — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 01:47:57 +0000

Lori – keep your eye on The Weather Channel this weekend. We're under a Winter Storm Warning or Watch, but the local forecasters still aren't saying how much they think we'll be getting.

By: Stacy

Stacy — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 23:27:49 +0000

I think it depends on what the purpose of the writing is. If it's just writing for a personal web page or a blog, then you can write whatever you feel like.

If it's for a commercial web site and the copy is intended to get results, and a client is paying you for those results, it had darn well better be written with the target market in mind.