Insecure Writers Support Group is a huge blog hop started
by Alex J. Cavanaugh and post on the 1st Wednesday of every month.
As the name implies, many of us our insecure. Feel free to join our little
group…ah…or big group, and post your insecurities and or encouragement. Just
click on this link to visit other blogs and or join. Well, I recommend you do
both. And no, you don’t have to visit everyone. The recommendation is to visit
10.
I missed May because my husband had surgery that day.
He’s doing great.
Question of the Month:
June 7 Question: Did you ever say “I quit”? If so,
what happened to make you come back to writing?
Years ago, I joined an in-person critique group. We
met once a week and read our work out loud at a book store and then braced for
the critique. Growing up, I was switched from my left hand to my right which
gave me a learning disability known as Dyslexia. It wasn’t as severe as those
born with this condition, but it still played havoc with my ability to spell,
read and learn English Grammar.
No doubt you can imagine what my chapter looked like
when I went home. I re-wrote chapters so many times I lost track. So, it was
tempting to quit. But…I had stories and I needed to write. So here I am, a
published author.
On a different note, I watch Ancient Aliens and often
come away with ideas to include in my stories. It’s great if you need a magical
element and you want something different from the norm. This week’s show was
all about what doctors and scientists are working on currently. Of course, in
between showing us this and that, the guys claim aliens did the same thing in
the past.
So, I thought I’d share a snippet with you, because
that show this week gave me a ton of ideas, none of which will work for
fantasy.
If your old enough or if you love old movies, you may
remember the one called, ‘Voyager,’ where a team of scientist enter a ship
which is shrunk and injected into the body of a man who was dying. Well…they
can do that now minus the people. Micro-robots that will attack disease instead
of the need for surgery.
Nancy
Did you quit and come back to writing? Do you like the
idea of micro-robots infiltrating your body? Can you think of a story that
suits this technology? Is it horror? Humor? SciFi or some other genre. Let me
know in the comments. Thanks for coming by.
