The New Writing and Righting

Wow, I have not written a post in quite sometime. This is partly due to laziness, and partly to life having some craziness, but I also have been thinking that I wanted to change my blog idea. I actually came up with the name for my blog before I came up with the whole idea. I knew I wanted it to be about my journey to getting published, but what should the name be? When I came up with writing and righting I decided to include posts about my personal life and trying to "right" my life... eat right, clean or right my house, raise my son right.... but I wasn't digging it.  First of all when I started this blog I was eating pretty much all vegan food. Well I have failed miserably at being a vegan and have decided to just call myself not even vegetarian, but someone who "tries not to eat meat." It makes me feel less accountable. I would sneak a chicken finger only when no one was around like I was taking crack or something... In a perfect world I would be a perfect vegan, but for now... I will try my hardest. I also realized who the bleep cares about me trying to keep my house nice... aren't we all.  I consider myself organized and have even gotten paid to organize other people's houses (actually I am pretty awesome at that), but I don't think my house will ever be in order. And my sweet baby boy, well I'm sure I'll have child rearing figured out when I'm a grandma and I don't remember that sometimes it does take a half an hour to get your child to brush his teeth no matter how many bribes or talk of painful cavity removal methods you tell them. The good news for me is I am going to keep the blog name the same because good lord knows you have to try to write right, or write well ( that sounds better) you have to do the right amount of revising, and editing.  You have to know the right way to send a query, and try to get the right agent and so on an so forth. So my not so new, new title is Writing and Righting. After a year of not querying much, but finding an awesome writers group, writing a lot, attending my first writing workshop and rethinking my blog... I am back in the saddle.  I have read over and over from successful authors to keep trying... they say if they can do it, anyone can. I have also read that it is very easy to give up when trying to get a book published. I can see how easy it is to get distracted and sometimes Netflix does not help at all, but I must keep trying because how the heck is an agent going to be interested in my work if there is nothing in front of them to see in the first place. Time to get back to work.