Weekly Writer Challenge 5 Stop Making Excuses!

We are now far enough into this challenge thing (see other challenges check down the right-hand side of the blog under Categories called Weekly Challenges) that I can tell you to step up production, people! Picture me with a whip, whipping you into writer shape. I dont want to hear your excuses!

Here are some of my excuses for only sending about 4 queries to national magazines in the last 4 years:

1. Im pregnant
2. Im nursing
3. Im parenting two, three, four, now five kids
4. Im homeschooling
5. My husband is too cheap to let us have Internet at home
6. Im tired
7. My laptop died
8. Im not organized enough
9. I dont have a 4-year college degree
10. My husband travels so its too hard to get any work done when I cant hold a damn thought in my head

Share your own excuses in the Comments section and know that I wont make fun of you at all! This is a venting place!

Just because I wont make fun of you doesnt mean I wont ride your sorry butt. Im giving you everything you need to succeed ... why arent you doing it? Why arent you pursuing your dream? I know I am scared of success; scared of TOO much attention; scared of making enough money to be comfortable and am afraid I will turn into a jerky princess and lose all my friends.

When I first started I was MAILING out my ONE little reprint to the few magazines I could get ahold of that I found on the Internet. I never heard back from any of them.

So think of Challenge #5 as a teensy little break. Get your files together, get your ideas together, clean up your computer and your paper system. Keep working on your queries. Knock out other jobs you have going on. Clean out your closet, go through old clothing and donate it. Whatever it takes to get your mind on the prize, do it! For me, I dont want to query until Im done with the ebook update!

Heres what I was working on the other day: getting old papers and files together in my basement ... filing by year currently. I have one helluva memoir project in store for me someday!

Spoiler alert #6: You should soon be ready to submit your first query.
Spoiler alert #7: Get a good system in place for keeping track!