Madeleine Returns Again

I laughed when I saw the headline of my last post. (And, really, it's been that long since I posted?) But this time, dear readers, I won't wait six months--no seven months--to post again. I am not going to make any excuses, though, for not posting. I read an interview with an artist a few months ago (an artist whose work I don't like very much, frankly) and he has a blog that features postings from other blogs in which people apologize for not writing on their blogs as much as they should.

That was a bad sentence, but hopefully you know what I mean. (That is not an apology, either.)

I thought it was a good time for me to return to the Mildred, because I am writing my last story for draft one of my book, and I am having a difficult time with it.

You read that right, readers. My LAST story. You might have thought that I stopped writing on the Mildred, because I stopped writing my book, and I was ashamed or nervous or embarrassed, etc., but I have not been writing on the Mildred, because I have been writing my stories. I found it impossible to do both. I have written nine new stories since March 2011, plus other shorter stories which will also be part of the book.

The last story is tough! I can't get into it. It occured to me yesterday, as I was slogging through my daily word count, that perhaps writing on the Mildred again would help me finish. We'll see.