My First Post

This is my first post in my new blog. I know, very exciting, but what can I say. Although this isn't my first blog, I'm still new to this blogging stuff. I keep thinking to myself that my life is incredibly boring, so why would anyone want to read it?

I suppose though, I mostly wanted to start writing in a blog to get more motivated about my writing. Writing isn't as easy as it looks. Or seems in your head. You may have scenes and bits of dialogue down, but there's so much more that goes into it. Take for example this scene I'm writing right now. My hero is ticked off about getting drenched with yucky mop water. I know what's the outcome of the confrontation with the bucket-wielders, however, I'm having trouble getting to that point. What they say between them, how to approach my outcome, etc. I don't know why this is so difficult. Perhaps I don't know my hero well enough and should explore his character more?

That scene is from a historical work I'm trying to do. A bit of fantasy combined with 1800s era. I'm not sure how it's working so far.

Today it didn't feel like I did much on my historical fantasy. I suppose it's because I was trying to write something for that eHarlequin July writing challenge. Writing a scene in 500 words might seem easy. Oh, well, actually...it is. I mean, I wrote my 500 words...and then some. The hard part is cutting down the main points. I hate that. It always seems that when I need to write something short, I end up writing more than I need and then have trouble slimming it to the right length. Yet, when I try to write something longer, like my fantasy historical, I feel impatient, like it's taking me too long to get where I want to go.

I'm stupid, what can I say. :P