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Pick up those feet and start dancing! (Hm... now I suddenly have images of a western with someone with a revolver saying, "Dance!")

That's it exactly! We all need margins in our lives the same way books need margins - otherwise you can't hold onto them!

Yes! 🤯 I keep thinking that I need to adhere to some arbitrary schedule, forgetting that life happens and with writing I'm accountable to myself. What an excellent reminder. I've spent so much time beating myself up for things outside my control that I forget about the beauty of the natural ebbs and flows. It all has a purpose. Forced "white space."

Blogs can be great places to work out the early dynamics for books and stories. You can see what resonates with readers and pull in their feedback. Then you know going into the book if there's interest or not. Of course, that only works after you have a blog to the level where you are getting interaction. So much fun!

Sometimes when I'm struggling to write a non-fiction conversational chapter in the high-risk pregnancy memoir, I start it as a blog. And this post reminds me that I really really need to get my own personal writer website in order and start putting all these short snippets up there. *sigh*

Hi, Becky! Glad you liked it. Think about the power of having a bunch of fun articles about your story world to share... and then we dribble those out over time. So much fun!

Actually, we all fall off our schedule. It is interesting how we see "life" as an unacceptable interruption. Parents die. Kids go to college. We get sick. These are all normal things. Just the title of "Writing for the Living Web" makes me feel less stress. Because this is a living document. A blog is a story that is still being written, and it will have actions and reactions, plot twists, and power moments. That's life. The schedule itself is fake. The interruptions are the real story!

That's interesting about the readers not noticing. I totally hear you on the noticing if you're creating boring content or "filler" content. It's stressful falling off a "regular" schedule especially when you're trying to figure it all out (me, not anyone else here 😬).