As you know I've come to the editing of Nathanael and Saydi and guess what? As of last night, I'm at the point that I can break it out again... I'm so excited! I'm huggin my thesaurus, welcome back my ole friend.
I'm working on an exceptionally difficult scene to write and I'm surrounded by all my papers that have words you can use instead of other words, my list of action words, feeling words, sensual words... Ohhh! It's too exciting.
Did I mention I love words. :)
Have a great day
Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Monday, 28 November 2011
Happy Monday - Yuck!
Well it's Monday, that day of the week that most people dread, including me. Honestly, I would love to be at home writing.
I got through the first round of edits of Nathanael and Saydi this weekend, there is still more to do, but it's getting there.
How did your weekend go? Do you ever wish that the weekends and work days were reversed? I do. Don't get me wrong I love my job, but I love writing more, being in that other world, being someone else. To me, that is the ultimate time spent.
Well, I must go now, regular duties call and the day will move along slowly, only because I'm dying to be at home writing.
Have a great one.
I got through the first round of edits of Nathanael and Saydi this weekend, there is still more to do, but it's getting there.
How did your weekend go? Do you ever wish that the weekends and work days were reversed? I do. Don't get me wrong I love my job, but I love writing more, being in that other world, being someone else. To me, that is the ultimate time spent.
Well, I must go now, regular duties call and the day will move along slowly, only because I'm dying to be at home writing.
Have a great one.
Thursday, 24 November 2011
The New Kids in Town
Well I've been working away on the new novel and the first draft is finished. It took three weeks. Now I'm working on the edits which there will be a lot, but it's a very interesting story that has captured my attention completely.
I'm not ignoring you, but the sooner I get Saydi and Nathanael finished, the sooner Michael and Rose can return to the stage. They've being gracious allowing these young pups to complete their story first.
Have a great day
I'm not ignoring you, but the sooner I get Saydi and Nathanael finished, the sooner Michael and Rose can return to the stage. They've being gracious allowing these young pups to complete their story first.
Have a great day
Tuesday, 22 November 2011
It's Not All Rose and Michael
My tour takes me to Wakela's World for a book review, here's hoping it was better than yesterdays.
This site, on a whole, has been dedicated to the series of Absolute Obsession. However, as you know, Rose and Michael have been jockeying lately for attention and you also know, there's a new gang in town.
I will forever be grateful for Michael and Rose, they pushed their way through showing me how to be a writer, how to listen, how to pay attention and because of their persistence, I have become a published author. However because of that, they have opened the flood gates for new and aspiring characters that want their voices heard.
Though I may be focused elsewhere, Michael and Rose still have my attention and will until it's time for them to depart the stage permanently and bid adu. For me they will always play a part in every voice I write, their luv, their understanding and their words, will forever echo in the background of each new scene written. The seed they planted will flourish.
No, their story isn't finished yet and until it is, I will hold on tight.
Have a great day.
This site, on a whole, has been dedicated to the series of Absolute Obsession. However, as you know, Rose and Michael have been jockeying lately for attention and you also know, there's a new gang in town.
I will forever be grateful for Michael and Rose, they pushed their way through showing me how to be a writer, how to listen, how to pay attention and because of their persistence, I have become a published author. However because of that, they have opened the flood gates for new and aspiring characters that want their voices heard.
Though I may be focused elsewhere, Michael and Rose still have my attention and will until it's time for them to depart the stage permanently and bid adu. For me they will always play a part in every voice I write, their luv, their understanding and their words, will forever echo in the background of each new scene written. The seed they planted will flourish.
No, their story isn't finished yet and until it is, I will hold on tight.
Have a great day.
Monday, 21 November 2011
It's that Time of Year
Today my virtual tour takes you to Colloquium for a book review. Please check it out.
Well my youngest daughter reminded me yesterday how quickly Christmas is coming, something should have clued me in on Saturday when I was out and about and everything was busy, including traffic. Anyway she came home from work and bounced into the house, asking if she could do some Christmas shopping for me and of course I replied "yes" just as excited as her. So she took the one Christmas list I have from my oldest granddaughter and off she went.
Why am I telling you this, because it panicked me after she left, when I realized how close it really was and all the things that I still needed to get. But it also reminded me of something else, none of my children have given me their Christmas lists. So, as with every other year, I will have to hound them so I can empty my bank account to buy them presents. Somethings wrong with that picture.
Have a great day
Well my youngest daughter reminded me yesterday how quickly Christmas is coming, something should have clued me in on Saturday when I was out and about and everything was busy, including traffic. Anyway she came home from work and bounced into the house, asking if she could do some Christmas shopping for me and of course I replied "yes" just as excited as her. So she took the one Christmas list I have from my oldest granddaughter and off she went.
Why am I telling you this, because it panicked me after she left, when I realized how close it really was and all the things that I still needed to get. But it also reminded me of something else, none of my children have given me their Christmas lists. So, as with every other year, I will have to hound them so I can empty my bank account to buy them presents. Somethings wrong with that picture.
Have a great day
Friday, 18 November 2011
Who We Write For
Today my virtual tour takes us on an interview at As the Plot Thickens, check it out and leave a comment or like. :)
I've talked a lot about listening to my characters and writing their stories as they tell it, but it isn't really as easy as that. Let me give you an example: You're telling your friends about something that happened to you and while you're telling them about the sequence of events, your hands are moving, your facial expression always explain more than we know and even your body language helps the listener to feel the horrific or wonderful event that happened in your life. Now take that same story and tell it to someone who cannot see and still get across all those emotions, without the body language, hand gestures or facial expressions. That's storytelling at its best.
We listen to and see our characters in each scene, our job is to watch their facial expressions, hand movements, and body language and get it down in words. We as writers, write for everyone who cannot see what we see... That is the reader.
Have a great day
I've talked a lot about listening to my characters and writing their stories as they tell it, but it isn't really as easy as that. Let me give you an example: You're telling your friends about something that happened to you and while you're telling them about the sequence of events, your hands are moving, your facial expression always explain more than we know and even your body language helps the listener to feel the horrific or wonderful event that happened in your life. Now take that same story and tell it to someone who cannot see and still get across all those emotions, without the body language, hand gestures or facial expressions. That's storytelling at its best.
We listen to and see our characters in each scene, our job is to watch their facial expressions, hand movements, and body language and get it down in words. We as writers, write for everyone who cannot see what we see... That is the reader.
Have a great day
Wednesday, 16 November 2011
Striving to be you
There was a mix up on my tour so I have to be in two places at once today as yesterdays stop was well... Let's not go there. So I'll leave the same blog post but send you to the two spots, hopefully I'll get there. Yikes! Busy day.
My first stop is a guest blog at Cocktails and Books, it's a little bit of a racey site, so enter at your own risk.
My other is an interview at Blogcritics (I'm running late on this one, will get to it soon).
Have you ever really wondered who you are? I don't mean are you a nice person, are you kind to others, do you gossip, are you one to rant and rave at other drivers... Not that kind of stuff. Have you ever truly looked beyond the above ground emotions, your abilities, accomplishments, failures? Someone's perception is a broad spectrum -- if you were to write a book with a character exactly as you are, would that character show their flaws (your flaws) or would that character always come out shining above the rest -- that would be your perception of yourself. Now, if someone else was to write a character exactly like you, I can guarantee that character wouldn't be someone you would recognized. The perception you have of yourself is, nine times out of ten, completely different that how other people see you. I ask, could you write a character in a true light of yourself?
Have a great day.
My first stop is a guest blog at Cocktails and Books, it's a little bit of a racey site, so enter at your own risk.
My other is an interview at Blogcritics (I'm running late on this one, will get to it soon).
Have you ever really wondered who you are? I don't mean are you a nice person, are you kind to others, do you gossip, are you one to rant and rave at other drivers... Not that kind of stuff. Have you ever truly looked beyond the above ground emotions, your abilities, accomplishments, failures? Someone's perception is a broad spectrum -- if you were to write a book with a character exactly as you are, would that character show their flaws (your flaws) or would that character always come out shining above the rest -- that would be your perception of yourself. Now, if someone else was to write a character exactly like you, I can guarantee that character wouldn't be someone you would recognized. The perception you have of yourself is, nine times out of ten, completely different that how other people see you. I ask, could you write a character in a true light of yourself?
Have a great day.
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