Hear ye, hear ye! Order in the Blog!

Since I can't seem to tame the chaos reigning in other areas of my life, I thought I might try to do so in my blog. I guess I'm sorta like people who suffer from eating disorders, which I definitely do not: When things are Hodgepodge, helter-skelter, piled-up-to-the-ceiling, and overwhelming, well then, I'll just find some little corner of the universe I can control.

Besides introducing seven categories underneath which I'll post (sparing needlessly wasted brain cells caused by thinking about what labels to add to each entry), just maybe it'll give blog friends and addicts easier hunting grounds. The categorizing system also helps me feel virtuous and competent. Now, there's a good bonus!

If that didn't make sense, here's the Reader's Digest version -- I'll have a different category to write about for each day of the week. The seven days will have their own headings:

• Mondays - Tout Le Monde (everything & everyone else in the world not already covered in another category we might want to chat about)
• Tuesdays - Gumbo (a catch-all day of the week where anything's possible)
• Wednesdays - Writing Wednesdays (all about the craft, frustration, joy, and process of writing)
• Thursdays - The Floor is Open (the day of the week anyone can throw out a thought [not that you can't do that on any day!], question, quandary, pondering, or whatever in the comment area for us all to enjoy)
• Fridays - Family Life and Stuff (ummm, self-explanatory)
• Saturdays - Spotlight On ______ (I'll feature blogs, websites, people and things I like and why I like 'em)
• Sundays - Weekly Forecast (what's on the coming week's plate)

So, lemme know what ya think about my Gumbo Writer's new system. The good, the bad and the ugly.

And since it's Writing Wednesday, here are a few quotes to consider:

"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster." ~ Isaac Asimov

"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately no-one knows what they are." ~ E. M. Forster

"Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry." ~ Stephen King

Got a favorite?

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