Brainstorming and Writing

Every year, I say that I am going to write at least one post a week. This year has been a miserable attempt that I can always blame on - I'm too busy, or I'm not creative right now, or I have nothing to write about. No excuses this year, even though I was just interrupted from writing for about 10 minutes.

My plan for 2013 will be what I did for my two daughters when they were younger every night before they went to bed. After reading a story or two - sometimes a picture book and sometimes a chapter book, I would have them give me two things - a name, an idea, a thing, a place, an animal or any other topics - and I would make up a story. For my blog this year, I am going to make lists of places (worldwide, home and office bound), things (foods, accessories, toys, cars, gadgets, etc.) and people (male/female, old/young, daring/timid and other characteristics). Each week (because my goal is 50 blogs) I will choose two items and either incorporate it into current events, address the meaning of them or make up a fantasy story.

So - Look forward to some good writing in 2013 - and you may just see more than 50 blogs!

Merry Christmas!

I Love Beans

Bean soup, beans and rice, beans on nachos, beans with enchiladas, beans with sausage - I love beans! SO healthy and delicious, I could eat them every day. My family is not as fond of them, maybe because I don't usually add meat, although I usually prepare the beans with homemade chicken broth. I make the broth from a chicken that I've baked and then boiled the remaining bones, along with the drippings from the pan for good use of the entire chicken, fat skimmed off the top of course.

Enough about the real beans, what I'm getting at is that I have a book in my head and halfway in my computer that addresses a little girl who plants her mother's discarded beans and discovers a world of adventure with them. My pleasure writing is so limited these days with two teenagers and a very preoccupied husband, plus a couple of part time marketing gigs, school events, grocery shopping, house maintenance, laundry, and certainly cooking beans and baking more edible treats. As I close out another year without finishing my book started in 2008, I have to consider my goals for 2013.

Here it is, December 13, and I'm just posting my 6th blog of the year. So many aspirations to write away every day, week, and month, yet just a half dozen have been written. I didn't begin the blog to make money with advertisements, although I've heard that it's a good idea. For 2013, I will again have a goal to write at least one a week, then, one a month - with at least a dozen by the end of the year. I will keep the faith and write 50 articles in 2013! On top of that, I hope to at least soft publish my book about beans and get it distributed to family members, maybe obtain the input from a few writer friends, and who knows where it will go from there? Next on the list is my novel/cookbook ...

Cheers to December and a great writing year in 2013!