Madeleine in Mid-August

I am just going to say that I am annoyed that Agnes hasn't written on the Mildred in so long. It's so much better if we both post, Agnes! It's also so much more updated. We need to keep our readers satisfied! I fear that we have not....

Anyway, another bump in the long, long road for Madeleine. Specifically that old familiar road called I-Shouldn't-Be-Writing-This-I-Should-Be-Writing-That-Oh-Hell-I-Just-Won't-Write-Anything Road. Yes, I've hit a ditch on that road, or I hit a ditch on that road, readers--past tense--and now I am starting to get out of it.

Here's a hint or a tip or a clue to my psyche/process/Mildred postings: if I am NOT posting on the Mildred, then I am either busy or out of town or I am so angry with myself about how my writing is progressing that I can't bear to write about it on the Mildred, mostly because I don't want my readers to think that I am lazy and/or never going to complete my Mildred mission, i.e., write the five stories. (The mission changed, you remember, readers, after May 2010 came and went.) Here's another hint: I am rarely out of town.

So the fact that I am writing on the Mildred now means that I am coming out of it. In fact, I am out of the ditch. (Okay, goodbye, ditch--and all road talk.) I have relaxed a bit, don't see how punishing myself, how not writing anything is a solution, a way to move forward (office speak), etc. etc. So I am writing again--Story #4, as I said in my last posting--and that's that.

I am also writing out an outline for the novel I've been thinking about. Thinking of the novel helped me to get back to writing Story #4; I felt better writing something than not writing anything.