It’s been said people have ‘selective memory’ where they either prefer something happening in such and such an order, or would swear, on a stack of Reader’s Digest that “It happened THIS way at around THAT time.”

My theological project is a tad controversial in some circles, but I figure I either do it this way or continue to turn the air a ….light blue every time the topic is brought up. This way, I’ve vented my spleen.

I have really got to find out what a SPLEEN is (biologically) and why it needs venting. 😉 Good luck with your project. I’ve got any number of full notebooks starting to accumulate in a box in my bedroom closet. If I ever get around to turning those books into one big project, Lord have mercy on my computer memory! 😉 That’s all I have to say.

well good luck to you with that too! My wife wants me to do something more “theological”, I suppose is as good a word as any, when I have room on my plate; I have a BIG pile of notes for that already, which are in no order whatsoever! I was fortunate with my memoirs in having several diaries and journals I wrote as a teenager, then a round-robin my brothers and sisters sent around for 20 years or so, of which I kept copies, and finally a dozen or more scrapbooks my wife put together, all of which served to keep things in chronological order–but still, I was surprised by how often the order of happenings I remembered bore little resemblance to the order they actually occurred!

No worries. Life gets in the way. Ironically, I’m recovering from breast cancer surgery (they got it all, but I still have radiation treatments). Good news….. SUMMER OFF!!!! 🙂 😀

Anywho… I have one novel project and a more ….theologically based project. I have decided to pick times for doing one or the other, depending on my mood. Welll….that was the plan.

As it is, I spend more time, right now, on the theology project, so I can get it uploaded onto my blog. My novel project is done in spits and dribbles. Even now I know what I have to fix, but when that urge hits, I go back to the other project, so the editing mood will pass by and then go back and scribble when I have an idea.

Right now, the story looks like a whole lot of half-finished thoughts. Note pages. But I have enough of an idea so when I’m able to fully commit to it, I’ll be able to ‘flesh’ the idea out into a fully realized story.

hi Gillian!
I had a serious injury to my left wrist which limited my typing for some months, but thanks for your note!
I agree, editing should not be started until the whole thing has been written and then allowed to sit for awhile. I started writing a few stories to read to my kids at bedtime, and their requests for more and more prompted me to write my memoirs; I’d sit in my car on my lunch hour and write a few more pages every day. I quickly decided chronological order was the ONLY way it would EVER end up as anything but a huge mess, and three years later had 1000 pages! I did some preliminary editing and got it down to 600, but then set it on the back burner. In the meantime my mother started her memoirs, and asked me to edit! So now I’m getting back to what I was doing in the first place!

But I have a very relaxed life. I am mostly engaged in things I love to do, and those that are beneficial for my health and the peaceful coexistence of our family.

Mostly, I know how my mind and my life work, and I use lists and goals…although not so much routine as a rhythm that fits better with my family life.

“Life – No One Gets Out Alive” ought to be a bumper sticker!

Thanks for the laughs, and the deeper message. You rock, WANA MAMA! =)