June horoscope for writers
Astrology for writers, editors & filmmakers (June)
Aries: I hate to pound on an old item, but the matter of health is still an issue, therefore keeping you from performing at top speed and efficiency. Say no to your active social calendar and set a goal of how many pages a day you can expect to produce..then stick to it.
A page per day goal, huh? Sounds familiar. Like I’ve tried that before. Still, it’s an interesting horoscope when it’s coupled with this one:
Daily Horoscope for Aries: If you hit the ground running, you’re sure to get a huge jump on the competition. Just remember than in this race, what counts isn’t how quickly you end up at the finish line, but how long you can keep up your pace. So remember to ration your energy when necessary — if you feel yourself starting to flag, take a time-out. Bring it down to a walk. Sip some water. Then jump back in and give it all you’ve got.
I finally settled in with my pen and paper around midnight (because I was way too lazy to get out of bed and the husband and the three year old didn’t seem to notice the light being turned on) and wrote about ten pages. And the whole time, but especially when I made that breakthrough, I kept thinking how true it is that you just have to write, even if it’s crap because all of a sudden you’ll start writing something that isn’t crap and you’re like, this is what it’s all about. And I love that feeling, because it’s the kind of feeling that makes you smile and mumble to yourself when you’re writing because it’s fun. And when you get to that fun part, the ideas just flow, and I’m like, oh, this is what’s going to happen next (that’s the good part about not plotting - I like being surprised right along with my characters.) And what I came up with was such a perfect idea that I needed to share it with someone. Immediately.
Of course, it was one in the morning and when I nudged the husband to tell him the brilliant idea, he kind of mumbled something about it being really bright in here. But I know he was secretly thinking that my idea was brilliant. Or how to disable all the lighting fixtures in the room.
Steph T.
June 15th, 2005 at 9:40 am
June 15th, 2005 at 11:35 am
Don’t you love hitting that groove where everything just flows and you have to force yourself to stop because you’re alarm’s going to be going off soon? WOO HOO on that breakthrough!
Does your husband remember you trying to tell him?
June 15th, 2005 at 11:41 am
LOL My husband would have my butt in a sling if I turned on the light after he went to sleep! But congrats on the breakthrough. I LOVE that feeling, fleeting though it may be for me.
June 15th, 2005 at 11:45 am
It is such a good feeling - knew you guys would know exactly what I was talking about.:wink:
And my husband’s SUCH a deep sleeper he remembers nothing and the light barely registers with him. Except when I try and wake him up to tell him about my breakthrough…
June 15th, 2005 at 1:20 pm
Way to go on the flow writing. I live for those moments!! (and I think I could drive a truck through the room once my dh falls asleep…)
June 15th, 2005 at 1:49 pm
LOL on the dead to the world husband! And yah you on the break through!!
June 15th, 2005 at 2:33 pm
Oh, man, I love being in the Zone. I haven’t been there in a long time. Congrats on the break through! Soon the characters will be talking to you faster than you can type!
June 15th, 2005 at 3:50 pm
Way to go, Steph!!!
June 15th, 2005 at 5:37 pm
That’s great Steph! Now if only I can get my butt in gear and start writing! I started a “page a day” book at the beginning of the year…and um, well, only have some 65 page! Needless to say, it’s obvious that we are more than just 65 days into the year!
But I wrote a few pages last week, so that’s good! Now if I can just keep at it!
My husband is one of those dead-sleepers too! I can vaccum around his head if he is sleeping on the floor and the man won’t wake up!
June 15th, 2005 at 6:17 pm
Me too, Kacey! I hope it sticks around…
Thanks for the cheering,Jill - it felt so good to finally have that happen again.
Joely - It had been a really long time since I’d gotten into the zone, so I hear you. I really had to almost force myself for a good week of total crap writing before this finally happened.
Thanks Tori! (have you seen Saint, btw? He’s been quiet;)
Kellie - I have such a tough time setting page a day goals because I tend to write a ton one day and nothing for the next four days. I put the charts up on my blog b/c I need some visual motivation - do you have any charts? And yay on the pages you wrote last week!
June 15th, 2005 at 6:43 pm
Im jealous and scarred by that horrid June Horror-scope!
June 15th, 2005 at 6:48 pm
For me, I let the hubby sleep then pounce him first thing in the morning. . . He usually asks how much coffee I’ve had. WTG though. I so love the groove and the idea!:bravo:
June 15th, 2005 at 7:27 pm
Steph–Oh, Zone Writing. Love, love, LOVE that. Especially when you’re done and you think, “Oh God, that’s good!”
June 16th, 2005 at 2:00 pm
Steph-
Charts? No, I have never seen one. I sort of write by the seat of my pants, so to speak, and usually don’t even do any plotting! I started writing semi-seriously 8 years ago, when I was 18. I have about 35-something stories started, all in various stages, but nothing completed (or even close to being completed) yet. I got a laptop for Christmas from my parents, hoping that would spur me on to write, but my “page-a-day” still fizzled. I would find too that I would write a ton of pages one day, then none for the next few days to a week, even. And when I did sit down and try to make myself write, I couldn’t focus! Argh!
June 16th, 2005 at 8:25 pm
^5! on the breakthru.