Today's Guest Post Kay Kauffman, author of Tuesday Daydreams: A Journal in Verse and A Song for All Seasons: A Journal in Verse.


I love my bedroom. The door has a rather impressive deadbolt on
it, which allows me the necessary peace and quiet to get some writing done
every once in a while. And I’ve decided
to make use of it.
See, I’m in the middle of rewriting
a novel, and lately I find myself completely unable to block out the background
noise of my life. But I have writing
that needs doing, so up to my room I go, rather like I used to do as a
teenager. In my room, I can lock out the
world and tackle the task at hand.
But first I’d better change
clothes. It’s been a long day and I need
to relax. Like, for real – my calves and
my shoulders are killing me. I ought to
rub them, but rubbing one’s own achy muscles just isn’t as satisfying as having
someone else do it.
Of course, now that I’m halfway
relaxed, my two toddlers’ voices have picked up a little bit in the volume
department. They’re supposed to be
sleeping. Oh, well – at least no one’s
crying. Yet. Time to go bust ‘em.
And now, to get rid of the flashing
blue notification light on my phone.
Guess I’ll be checking my email tonight after all. Maybe there won’t be too many…If I can stay
off Facebook, I’ll be fine. My
productivity can still be salvaged.
The wind’s picking up. In my mind’s eye, I see a heavy curtain of silver
mist descend over the countryside, flapping away in the crisp April
breeze. I could totally write a poem
about that…
Hey! That clock can’t possibly be right! I just sat down *yawn* a few minutes ago –
how can it be nearly midnight already?
And how many words did I get down?
Five? Are you joking? You can’t be serious.
Well, so much for writing, I
guess. At least there’s still tomorrow…
*studies page*
*binks*
Well, what do you know? Looks like I got this post written! Yay productivity! I might not have written what I set out to
write, but sometimes when the words won’t flow, it helps to work on something
else for a little while. Sometimes it
doesn’t, but you never know till you try.
Either way, you need to protect
your writing time. If you really want to
write, you’ll make the time for it, so put it to good use when you’ve got
it. Whether that use is actually writing
or just letting your ideas percolate, it doesn’t matter – both are important
parts of the writing process. At some
point, you have to actually write, and maybe you won’t keep all of what you’ve
written in your final draft, but that’s okay.
That’s what revision is for.
Finally, don’t be afraid to write
tired. Some of my best ideas have come
when I’m tired. The world looks a little
different, and altogether more interesting, when your sight is dulled by
exhaustion.
As a girl, Kay dreamed of being
swept off her feet by her one true love. At the age of 24, it finally
happened…and he’s never let her forget it. A mild-mannered secretary by day and
a determined word-wrangler by night, she battles the twin evils of distraction
and procrastination in order to write fantastical tales of wuv…twue wuv…with a
few haiku thrown in for good measure.
The author of Tuesday Daydreams: A Journal in Verse and A Song for All Seasons: A Journal in Verse, Kay is currently hard
at work on the first book in a fantasy trilogy. She resides in the midst of an
Iowa corn field with her devoted husband and his mighty red pen; four crazy,
cute kids; and an assortment of adorably small, furry animals.
Tuesday
Daydreams captures the life and imagination of
the author in vivid detail, touching on joy and loss, life’s everyday hassles,
and the many faces of Mother Nature. A Song for All Seasons paints vivid pictures of the Iowa landscape in all its
glory, in addition to intimate portraits of family life. From frost-covered windowpanes and snowy
vistas to rolling green fields and bright blue skies, each poem is a peek into
a fading world of untamed beauty. If
you’d like to pick up your own copy of Tuesday
Daydreams or A
Song for All Seasons, you can find them at Amazon, Amazon UK, Createspace,
Smashwords, iBooks,
Kobo,
and Barnes & Noble.
Care to save her from the chaos?
You can find Kay in the all the usual places:
At her blog, where she shares random
pictures and silly poems; on Facebook,
where she shares things about cats and books; on Twitter, where she shares
whatever pops into her head; on Pinterest,
where she shares delicious recipes and images from her fantasy world; on Instagram, where she shares
pictures of pretty sunsets; and on Tumblr,
where she shares all of the above.
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