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Goodbye for now…


05 May


Well this is the time to say goodbye to this blog for an undetermined time, maybe for good. I haven’t been very active in the last few months mostly because I am concentrating on my writing. I am working on some great projects and want to give them my full attention both time and creativity wise.

Blogging regularly takes a lot of one’s mental energy and as writers I think we have to decide where to put all that creativity. For me, it’s at the page, in my manuscripts. This is where lies my “happy writing place.”


So I have decided to blog a lot less and only at Musetracks, a popular blog for writers that I am very proud of. We started it as unpublished authors with big dreams and now we are still great friends and writing partners and the blog has grown bigger than we ever imagined.

So you can find me there on Mondays, but I do hope you will stick around on other days because we offer a lot of inspiration and companionship to fellow writers, along with the chance to pitch to agents and editors once a month.

Much love,
Marie-Claude xoxox

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Location:Seattle

Being human and writing commitments


14 Mar


While yesterday’s writing session was not half bad even though my enthusiasm was laking, today was the opposite. I woke up ready to go and super energetic. My laptop however, didn’t follow my will.

When I turned it on this morning, it was super slow to boot. I’m thinking that my two favorite persons in the world, a.k.a. my kids, had used it the day before to look up the value of their Magic the Gathering card and left the battery run out.

So after 5-10 minutes of looking at the screen, trying to get everything up again, I was no longer keen on writing.

I hate this feeling. I keep telling myself that there are no excuses. That I don’t need my computer just so, my coffee at the right temperature, the lighting just right, etc, in order to get down to work. Those are excuses, but sometimes being human gets in the way of my writing commitments.

Oh well.

I did a page or so then had to leave for my teaching work.

How often has that happened to you? How often had technology or other things gotten in the way of your writing? Was it an excuse or just one of those day?

Much love,
Marie-Claude xoxox

Location:Seattle

One writing day off is just one writing day off


02 Mar


I found myself skipping the writing again this morning. I’ve been pretty good all week, but this morning I just couldn’t face it.

Between late night dealing with school stuff and taking care of the kids, I just needed that early morning to myself for one tiny hour.

To do nothing…

No writing, reading, thinking, just nothing.

I’ll be honest, trying to juggle the writing, my Masters with full days teaching middle school and come home to deal with kids is killing me.

And yes at time, I wonder if I will ever make it again, if I will ever sell what I am writing now so slowly. Surely no agent will want to take me on if I am so slow.

Yet, I’m trying to tell myself that I’m writing for the pleasure of the story first, that the worse would be to completely stop trying all together. And that even a book a year is probably enough to sustain a small career. And finally I’m trying to tell myself that one day off is just one day off, not 5 or 10 or even a whole month.

So I’ll just have to let it slide, get right back at it.

Giving myself a break. And so should you.

Much love,
M-C xoxox

Location:Seattle

Writing with kids


20 Feb


Writing with Kids
Are you a writer? Do you have kids at home?
I’m not sure what I was thinking this week. Since I have a whole week off from school, I thought, great, lots of lots of time to write.So I didn’t plan my writing much and kind of forgot that if you throw the kids in the mix, all regular sensible life goes out the window really quick.
Hence very little writing gets done when the boys are running around crazy in the house, along with all their friends, making a mess, getting hurt and fighting each other.So right… not much writing today.
Thank goodness I worked a little at 5 am and finished editing a scene before heading to the gym. As much said like to feel like I’m on holiday, when it comes to writing, I still got to stick with my wee quiet morning time.

STAY AWESOME,
M-C xoxox

Location:Seattle

There will be bad days…


11 Sep


A friend of mine who has been teaching high school for quite a while gave me this advice last week-end before I started student teaching: there will be bad days….

I feel that with writing it’s the exact same thing. There will be bad days, there will also be days when your other life makes you feel shitty and you won’t feel like writing.

Guess what: a bad writing session is better than no writing.

Don’t expect perfection everyday. Ignore the critique, the haters and the idea that you’ll meet success daily. Just chug along and do it!

STAY AWESOME,
M-C xoxox

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