Conversations with Barb and Jann

 by Barb DeLong and Jann Audiss

We have been friends for what seems like forever and been struggling with our writing as well.  So to start 2012 off with a bang, we have decided to blog on the Slice of Orange.  What better place to get our mojo working.  We decided to do a conversational blog between the two of us exchanging our thoughts and ideas about our writing.

Jann:  Hi, Happy New Year. Yada, yada...been thinking about blogging again.  What do you think about blogging together?  I remember when we were doing it as a group several years ago?

Barb:  Yes, I remember.  I also had a Pro blog and my own blog for a while.  But I stopped writing them, as it seems I do regularly with my creative writing.  I plunge in, all excited about a new story, write feverishly, then more slowly, then I hit the skids.  How can I make this year different?

Jann:  I know what you mean. One problem I have is getting sidetracked with other obligations. Remember when we use to meet once or twice a month for critique group?  We were actually getting pages out, why don't we try committing to - oops backup and remove "try", let's commit to meeting twice a month to write for 2 hours or critique.  If we critique, let's set a page minimum - doesn't' matter if the pages are good, bad or ugly. 

Barb: The goal is ACCOUNTABILITY! 

Jann: Hey, what about taking Kitty's Online Class for January.  Going the Distance: Goal Setting and Time Management for the Writer??  Sounds like we could use it.

Barb:  Setting goals, supporting each other - sounds like a plan, Jann!  And hey, I think we just did our first blog!  Blogging is writing, so we actually wrote something.  I like this already.