Author: jcladyluv

So I have been reading a very informative book on the proper way to boost my freelance writing career into high gear which it definitely not at this time.  I’ve always had my mind set on one or two different ways that I can make money with my writing but this book has opened my mind up to other ways that I never even thought about doing until this book put those ideas into a broader perspective.  There are so many things that I can be doing with my writing talent, some of them of which I might not necessarily want to do, but they have a very big potential to make my career more lucrative and that is exactly what I want at this stage in my life.  That means that I now have to step out of my comfort zone of what I am used to doing and try things that I have never done before and some I’ve never even thought about trying before.  I will admit that I am not particularly good with change but I suppose in life that is sometimes what makes it worthwhile is the change.  I am just going to have to try my best to be more and more productive and work on several projects at a time because working on one at a time is not producing enough.  I am a list person so I think that making list will work better for me in terms of actually producing work and getting things done.  So this month I am going to take some time and try and maybe distance myself from people (not total isolation but just not talk on the phone so much which I do an incredible amount of) and probably not focus so much on the man in my life who gives my hell sometimes and get my head into what it is that I need to be doing which is turning my career into something that is going to not just make ends meet but make things comfortable and so I won’t have to worry about how this bill and that bill will get paid.  Well I suppose that I should stop writing about wanting to get paid and go do it.  Until next time….Be Blessed!!!   

Jimmetta Carpenter

“The Diary: Succession of Lies” (Release Date To Be Announced)

Writing as “Jaycee Durant”

www.myspace.com/jcladyluv

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www.authorsden.com/jimmettacarpenter

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www.freefalllit.com

I don’t exactly know what seems to be different about this New Year and about the goals and promises that I made to myself but I feel like my mind is focused on what I want and that I am being consistently productive.  I know what I want to happen this year and while I can not control everything such as the outcome of my efforts but I can make sure that I make all of the effort that can possibly make.  Maybe it’s because I am about to hit 30 and I feel like I should be further along in my life right now and instead of crying about it and feeling sorry for myself I am going to do something about it.  I am sending out query letters to literary agents soon for my novel and let the chips fall where they may in concerns to that.  I am also going to begin sending query letters to several magazines for article ideas that I have and just let my work speak for itself.  It’s funny because out of all of the things in my life the one thing that I am most confident in and about is my writing.  I know I am an excellent writer and that I will be a successful novelist so I am wondering to myself why it has taken me so long to finally get up the nerve to have faith that others will see how much of a great writer I am too.  I guess everyone in a sense is a little scared of rejection but they say that you know you’re a writer when you start getting those rejection slips in the mail.  So this year I am going for it, rejection be damned.  I am also starting to plan my move to Connecticut so that I can be in the New York area to start seeking out work there once I have finished my bachelor’s degree.  I would love to be able to afford to actually move to New York but with a child that would be damn near impossible so Connecticut is going to have to do.  Well I have a few projects to go work on and homework to do but I think that everyone should take into account what they have to offer as of this moment and don’t pay attention to what you are not capable of doing as much as what you are capable of doing.  Don’t let what you haven’t mastered yet stop you from putting out there what it is that you have.  In other words, in all aspects of your life, don’t set your own limitations.  The world is full of people that will already do that for you.  Until next time….Be Blessed!!!   

Jimmetta Carpenter

“The Diary: Succession of Lies” (Release Date To Be Announced)

Writing as “Jaycee Durant”

www.myspace.com/jcladyluv

www.lulu.com/ladybugpress

www.authorsden.com/jimmettacarpenter

http://unpleasantlyplump.wordpress.com/

https://writetobe.wordpress.com/

Okay National Novel Writing Month is over and that is the excuse that I used to not write on my blog.  But National Novel Writing month has been over since the first day of December so really there is no excuse.  Okay so I’m getting that “what have I done with my life” bug.  You know, the disease you come down with every time you feel like you life is not going the way you had hoped it would go.  They say that’s something you’re supposed get when you hit you mid-life crisis but since no one really knows when they are destined to die that could literally be at any time.  The real question is what am I going to do about this bug that I’ve got.  So here’s what I thought.  I have been taking the whole one project at a time approach to my writing but obviously that has not gotten me anywhere thus far so I am going to flip it around.  Now I am not opposed to working on multiple projects at one time because I figure if my work on one project gets stale or I hit a block then I can have another project to switch to.  Some might call this procrastinating a bit and I thought that was what it would be doing but now I’m looking at it much differently.  I could have several projects finishing up around the same time as opposed to just one.  Sort of like the saying don’t put all your eggs in one basket.  So my book proposal for the first novel that I have actually finished is going to be one of these mini projects for the New Year.  I wanted to self publish but the fact of the matter is that I just don’t have the money so I am going to move on to the next step and try to get my an agent.  Well I guess I better get working.  I have more than just this blog to write…Until next time….Be Blessed!!!   

Jimmetta Carpenter

“The Diary: Succession of Lies” (Release Date To Be Announced)

Writing as “Jaycee Durant”

www.myspace.com/jcladyluv

www.lulu.com/ladybugpress

www.authorsden.com/jimmettacarpenter

http://unpleasantlyplump.wordpress.com/

https://writetobe.wordpress.com/

It’s almost here!!! By it I mean National Novel Writing Month.  The month of November is the month when all writers alike get their projects and ideas ready and come November the 1^st they start writing.  Now although it does say Novel in the title of the event that does not mean that a person has to actually be working on a novel.  You could choose to do a play or a book on something else that is not necessarily a novel.  My project however is a novel.  I am beginning my third novel and I have already finished the outline which is going to help the writing of my book go a little quicker.  Now I am in the research phase so that I can get the research done before I start the book.  I am excited to be starting this project and just hope that the actual writing part goes smooth throughout the month of November.  Now given the fact that I have school work to do also it is going to make things very challenging but I think that I am up for the challenge.  It is just going to take some more discipline and a few more nights where I just get a little less sleep, a lot little less time on the telephone, and a lot less procrastination.  I made my 50,000 words last year so I believe that I can make my 50,000 words this year as well.  I’m actually a little better prepared this year than I was last year so I believe that I will do just fine.  I just have to make sure that I stay on top of my game.  I hope that all the writers out there take the month of November to focus a large part of their energy on their writing.  Even if it is just a hobby for you, you never know if this just might be the hobby that you could turn into your career.  Try to find a little time in each day during November and just sit down and write because you never know what you’re going to come up with.  Until next time….Be Blessed!!!   

Jimmetta Carpenter

“The Diary: Succession of Lies” (Release Date To Be Announced)

Writing as “Jaycee Durant”

www.myspace.com/jcladyluv

www.lulu.com/ladybugpress

www.authorsden.com/jimmettacarpenter

http://unpleasantlyplump.wordpress.com/

https://writetobe.wordpress.com/

“By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.”                       ~ Christopher Columbus~

Okay so I am making an effort to be continually productive but I admit that along this path of trying to remain continually productive I seem to get consistently distracted.  For me it doesn’t take much to distract me.  Life distracts me.  Love, when it is having its hiccups, distracts me.  Motherhood distracts me.  Occasional depression distracts me.  When I am in a good mood and everything, or almost everything, is going my way then I am good to go.  I am inventive.  I am creative.  I am resilient.  I am determined.  I am driven.  I am productive.  When shit gets me down and puts me in a depressing mood, I get thrown off.  My thing from here on out is that I must maintain my productivity or else I will get stuck.  My problem is that life seems to get in my way a lot, which ends up being distracting.  How do I see through the distraction is what I then have to deal with.

There is no real way of knowing when something is about to go wrong or when someone is about to disappoint you or anger you.  In short, there is no full proof way to avoid getting distracted.  There is, however, ways to try and assure that you quickly make your way through the distraction.  I think that some ways that you can see through the distraction is to keep your end goal in your mind.  You can’t let yourself get so down or so busy with other things that you forget what you really want in the end.  My struggle is going to be to separate my personal life and tribulations from the business and career side of my goals and what I want to do in life.  Distraction is something that can constantly get in someone’s way but only if you continue to let it.  Until next time….Be Blessed!!!   

Jimmetta Carpenter

“The Diary: Succession of Lies” (Release Date To Be Announced)

Writing as “Jaycee Durant”

www.myspace.com/jcladyluv

www.lulu.com/ladybugpress

www.authorsden.com/jimmettacarpenter

http://unpleasantlyplump.wordpress.com/

https://writetobe.wordpress.com/

“Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.”              ~Paul J. Meyer~

Okay I haven’t been as active at blog writing as I had hoped to be but I have new goals, or should I say I have a new angle at achieving my goals, and I am determined to be consistently productive.  I have been bogged down with school (just received my AA degree for Communications) because I am going for my Bachelor’s Degree in Communications now with the end goal of getting my Master’s in Psychology.  So trying to maintain my focus on school and of course being a full time mom, and trying to work on my outline for my third novel, has been harder than I thought it would be.  I keep saying that I am going to find a way to be more productive and then it just didn’t happen.  So now I am going to stop trying to figure out why I haven’t been as productive as I would like to be and just do it.  So yesterday I decided that a step that I am going to take toward that goal is to make task lists each day for what I want to get accomplished the next day. Also along with this I figured out that I had to make the goals something that was attainable.  I would sometimes put on a list to finish my business plan, knowing that I could not finish a whole business plan in one day or even in just one week.  So I think that I am going to make small goals each day as steps toward the larger goal and this would make for a better attainable to-do list.  I was proud of myself that yesterday I completed everything on my task list.  However, today I am behind on getting started so I am striving but I do realize that there are some days that I may not be able to get everything done everyday.  Being consistently productive is difficult but in this stage in my life (at almost 30 years old), where I have so many big dreams and goals, and am just now starting to see the results I want, I have to keep going and I have to not allow myself to get stagnant and stuck. 

How many times in life do we get stuck, and then we get so stuck on the fact that we are stuck that it just begins as a downward spiral deterring away from our goals and dreams.  Life gets up caught up and sometimes life just simply gets us down.  The question is, how long are we going to allow ourselves to stay down?  I hear people complain sometimes about the fact that there are so many things that they want to do and they just don’t know how they are going to manage to get it done because they are just occupied with so many other things.  Yet I see them sitting around doing a lot of nothing, or worse I see them doing a lot of them trying their best to look busy but yet they haven’t got anything done.  I do not consider myself to be one of those people and I refuse to let myself become one of those people.  We only get one shot at life, and we have to do it right.  I don’t want to go another twenty or so years and look back and regret what I did or did not get done.  I don’t want to have to say that I wish I had given that a shot or I wish that I had just made more time to do this or that.  I want every single second in my life to count for something and I have realized that in order to do that I have to stay continually productive.  I urge anyone who reads this to stay productive and don’t let yourself get to the point where you are stuck.  I urge you to make every single second count because tomorrow is never promised to us, we only have what’s left of today.  Make it count.  Until next time…Be Blessed !!!

Jimmetta Carpenter

“The Diary: Succession of Lies” (Release Date To Be Announced)

Writing as “Jaycee Durant”

www.myspace.com/jcladyluv

www.lulu.com/ladybugpress

www.authorsden.com/jimmettacarpenter

Okay so I am a little frustrated. It is the beginning of February and I still don’t have a book cover for my novel that I want to come out by June. This is the time for me to start marketing my book and I don’t have a cover to do it with. Not only that I don’t have a written press release yet and the same person who is supposed to write my press release is also writing my back of the book blurb and surprise surprise, that’s not done yet either. I feel like I have way too far to go in regards to getting this book out and I halfway feel like giving up but that’s not me. I am not a quitter and I have come too far to give up now. I just wish I at least had a cover. I want my cover artists to put a fire under her butt and respond to me more often and act like I am paying her because I am paying her, and more than what I really have to pay. But I guess good work takes time right. What I have seen thus far of her work, I like but I would just like a few corrections to be made and a few more samples to choose from. Who knew that trying to publish a book would be this nerve wracking? I guess I have a great deal more of respect for the agents and publisher’s who have already begun making a good living at doing this because if they have to go through this much work and all the author has to do is wait for the marketing and printing and everything else to be done and they don’t have to actually deal with the headache themselves. I’m starting to wonder if I really want to deal with this instead of just being able to write the work and then leave it up to someone else. I had to want to give this kind of a chance to other unknown authors. I just hope that I do well with my own books to start out with so that I can be able to help others get their work published as well. I think that maybe I should start writing for some grant money to maybe see if I can get help with funding for my company but then again in this devastating economy right now I’m not sure that would happen anyway. Well I know that I will not give up in my pursuit to make what I want happen. I guess I will just have to wait until my end result of my Novel is complete and then I can see that all of my hard work was not for nothing. Until the next time I write, Be Blessed!

Jimmetta Carpenter

“The Diary: Succession of Lies” (Coming Late Spring)

Writing as “Jaycee Durant”

www.freefalllit.com

www.myspace.com/jcladyluv

www.lulu.com/ladybugpress

www.authorsden.com/jimmettacarpenter

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