A field cleared and fresh, full of people in midnight darkness-all there for the same purpose. Torchlight scattered and scarce but hardly missed as the ethereal and rhythmic music carries all, and there is no need for seeing. Among others on the cool hillside, but I am invited to dance more closely to where the music is played. I go, partnered with ( Read more... )

I have surpassed 38,000 words on this book. That is past the half-way mark of my goal for words, and leaves only 25,000 to go. If I wanted to rely on trend, I could tell myself that in 12 days I will be done and wouldn't that work out perfectly for this 30 day feat?....Not likely. I do feel like I've gotten past the "wall" though and I'm feeling a ( Read more... )

I have been working daily on "The Labyrinth of Empty" since the first and while I can honestly say that I've stuck to it, I still feel like I'm barely keeping my head above water on it. Right at the moment (and there are still a few writing-worthy hours left of the day), I'm up to about 28 thousand and a half. Not quite half done, at least ( Read more... )

So the book signing was not as I had hoped it would be in the respect that many people who said they'd show, didn't. Well, what do you expect--it was a very nice day out in our area and I'm sure many people forgot/lost track of time/nursed hangovers/etc. I did not sell out this time which is good for the several people who have contacted me asking ( Read more... )

I had some super colorful but very strange dreams this morning about today: I was the first person to the book store and noticed right away that they had posted up a two page newspaper article of February's signing (I looked in a week's worth of papers--there was no such write up), and in addition to that, there were 8x10" photos of myself and the ( Read more... )

As promised, I started "The Labyrinth of Empty" this past Monday (6/1). I have been carrying on rather well with it so far and at the end of day four, I was up to over 12,500 words. The goal is to finish it off at around 60,000, because that seems to be a good size book, and I like things to match, etc. along with other already existing things(Like ( Read more... )

And so what is it about purple? Or plum or violet for that matter? For a libra, it is listed as one of the colors we should wear or surround ourselves with. It is a color that represents royalty because of the rare shells the Romans made dye from. It is the color that keeps popping up in my sewing projects and in objects that I dream about ( Read more... )

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Just remembering little bits of a dream I had early this morning: an heirloom piece of jewelry that transformed itself in my hand--was a filigree locket with a family photo in it, then a pocket watch...I handed it over for special alteration and it was returned to me with a flat heart-faceted amethyst attached to its shell, the word "fille" ( Read more... )