Today, I’m going to set aside the Mama part of myself and just talk writing… because, truly I need a good kick in the rear and I can’t think of a better place to get it than the MamaWriters!  We all know how to move, motivate and sometimes force our kids into action, into doing what needs to be done..into finishing their homework, cleaning their room, or heck just even saying thank you at times.  But what about moving, motivating and forcing ourselves?

And I’m not talking about housework, or cooking (because, really nothing would motivate me to do that other than a starving child. lol).  I’m talking about motivating yourself and forcing yourself to write when it’s not going as you hoped, when you aren’t certain about what you’re writing, or when your muse seemed to have left on vacation without telling you (Oh Fred! Where are you?)?   Because Mamas, that’s where I am.

I’m pretty sure Fred, my muse, has left for Tahiti.  My characters are suspiciously quiet and not giving me much to work with.   And though I have gotten some pages done in the last weeks, it hasn’t been many and I’m not really sure about what I DID get.

I know WHY I’m so verklempt (I love that word) right now. It’s not a matter of figuring out the reasons.  It’s a matter of forcing myself to write past them… to write bad pages, I guess.  Just to write something.

It’s not a problem to tell my three year old that he has to help Mama clean up his room before he can watch an episode of Handy Manny, but it is apparently a problem to kick my own you-know-what and write past the bad stuff.  Or peraps just give myself permission to write the bad stuff.  As the grand dame of romance Nora Roberts says, “You can’t fix a blank page.”

So let’s have it…give me your best Mama impressions… If I were your child, what would you say to me? :)