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You misunderstand. I'm not the least bit bored myself. I'm never bored. I love what I do, I love painting, relaxing, watching movies etc. I love learning and reading.

But being bored is not the same thing as leading a somewhat peaceful and boring life.

If I were to write a book about my actual life it would bore other people.

I'm not bored with it at all, it's just not interesting to others or it does not interest others.

Example:

Dear Diary,

Today I sold two small paintings at the art show booth and I made $95.00. I won an "honorable mention" on one of my paintings in the show. The judge was horrible and picked an ugly painting of a cow for the Best of Show and it was really awful. (Any one of my four paintings that I entered was better and executed with tens times the skill.) The judge thought she was a good impressionistic artist, but her work was butt ugly and her judging was butt ugly.

And this was a busy day. My cousin was here for a visit. We ate lunch at Love's subway.

(Not like: gee, I went para sailing today and crashed on a garbage barge, or Like: I went sky diving and my parachute did not open and I had to use my spare chute.)

I get what you mean, but my question still stands. Why is it either boring or disasters and problems? Surely there is something in the middle.

Lex, I have always been fascinated with writers and one of my dreams is to be a published writer... (but I'm too busy being an artist or trying to be an artist).

I don't read enough to be a writer and I don't have the patience to put stories or characters together. Then when I try to write, I get obsessed with re-writing.

But what I would like to do is to outline a story ( or sort of describe what it is about) and then design a cover for it. Then, hire someone else to actually write the book.

Or

Just design book covers and make up book titles.

I make up a book title, then I design a cover for the unwritten book, then find some writer who can write the book.

It is usually a book title and cover that makes me want to read the book. But I can't read the book because its not written.

..got my ticket paid off to go back to Oregon.
(I love my Mingle woman!)..

The hardest thing for me has always been that I have too many ideas and nowhere to put them. The actual writing part is fairly easy for me, especially if it's dialogue.

But I have been totally unable to stick to any kind of a "schedule" -- a lot of writers will tell you to do three pages a day, no more, no less. Others will say do three pages in the morning, three in the afternoon. I've never been able to do three pages and then stop. It's always 12 or 15. One time, it was 26.

But I may go days without writing anything useful at all, too. So it's always more about when the creativity is flowing than it is about trying to force it.

I was reading about the life of a successful writer called Sue Grafton who writes a series called The alphabet series. (A is for Alibi, B is for Burgler, C is for corpse, etc.)

She describes her life and says she writes for two hours a day, she jogs, and does other things. Her life is pretty awesome from my point of view. She gets a lot of books written.

She seems to be living my dream life.

http://www.suegrafton.com/bookshelf.asp

How about X is for X-husband.

A woman is found dead in her apartment and investigators discover she had been married 8 times and all of her X-husbands had good reasons for wanting her dead.

Here is a quick book cover:
Jackie Tracer Hunt will be my pen name.

I once complained that my life was boring and then all hell broke loose. It wasn't good -- but it was certainly exciting enough that I wished my life was boring again.

I decided I liked boring.... as apposed to disasters and problems, so be careful what you ask for...

My life is so boring now that I watch television and a netflix movie at the same time while I work on updating my website.

So tell us how boring your life is.