Trisha Jones' Blog

   The other day I was in a chat room trying to clear my head since I was having a hard time with a scene in my W.I.P I thought chatting with some of my online friends might help. But a total butt head came in the chat room and started going off on the fact I am not published and I need to shut up and go write. When I asked what does it matter to him if I am published or not he went off on the fact he has been published hundreds of times and it's not hard. I asked him what he published he informed me he writes patents, technical text for patents. I inform him I write novel length manuscripts and it's hard to get published unless you self publish. Apparently that just upset him and he kept going off on me to the point everyone else started defending me. Then the butt head starting getting mad they were defending me. At this point nearly everyone blocked him so we would not have to deal with his drama.   The reason I am telling you all this is if you write anything and you get

  Today my kids started school my son started in high school today, it felt wrong to let him walk to his bus stop alone but I let him since its uncool to have mom walk you to the bus stop. My daughter is in middle school(junior high) she asked me to walk her to the bus stop, I think she did it to make me feel better but I got to wave to her as her bus left. I hate the start of school not because I don't want them to go to school but because I got used to the noise of them being here and now it's gone until almost 4 pm five days a week ( this week it's 3). Once I get used to it again I will be ok.   Needless to say I have gotten no writing done and I might not get much done for a week or so. Once the routine is normal again writing will be easier and more will get done. I am sure there are other writers that are parents that get this way, but it always makes me feel like I am really odd for getting this way. Well I better get going my kids will be getting off in about an