Does anyone know what that means? I’ve tried to edit my little wordcount box over on the right using Firefox, Chrome, and (shudder) IE, I’ve tried on my desktop running Windows 7 and my netbook running Windows 8, and that’s all I get. The change won’t save. It just says “javascript:void(0)” down in the bottom left border of the little popup edit thingie.

It worked for several days, and then it just stopped, for no reason that I could discern. Perhaps I offended it? Is it allergic to apples? (My favorite snack.) Does it object to my house? (It’s reasonably clean.) Did I forget to shower? (*sniff* Nope…)

*shrug*

Wordcount as I get started this morning is 62,321. It would be more like 63k, but I had to rewrite a scene from a different point of view, and well, that’s how the writing life goes sometimes.

One of my Facebook friends posted a status this morning that said,

“Don’t
ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come
alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who
have come alive.” – Howard Thurman

Writing makes me come alive – I just wish it hadn’t taken so long for me to find out!

What makes YOU come alive?

And I have to agree: writing made me come alive. Boy, did it ever make me come alive. Before I started writing again, I was sort of tottering along, taking a university course here and there, trying to keep myself busy. The kids are grown, and all but the youngest have flown. The husband works from home (he works for a Fortune 100 company, trying to break software and find the bugs before it gets released to the customers — this takes a certain amount of low cunning, he claims), but he’s often on conference calls or hunched over his work computer like a gnome, madly typing away (fastest 4-finger typist in the West- er, East). I was pretty much left to my own devices.

When I started writing The Marann, I roared back to life. Suddenly I was eager to get up in the morning. I had a focus. I was full of energy.

The writing honeymoon is over, and I still have the focus and most of the energy. It’s a little harder to get out of bed in the morning, mostly because I wake up thinking about my characters, and I lie there letting them talk to me, and sometimes (well, okay, most times) I fall back to sleep.

Yo ho, yo ho, the writer’s life for me!