After some false starts, I've gotten back into the swing of writing most every day.  In fact, I'm kind of anxious about it.  I've edited 4 chapters in the last two weeks, (cut 2, and had to completely rewrite 1.)  I know that doesn't sound like much, but it actually is.  I'm rather proud of my progress.  Honestly, my goal is to get all the edits ( Read more... )

Why is it when I plot out a story/novel, suddenly five more pop out of my head within the following week?  Perhaps this is why I have over two dozen starts and only two 'finished'.

This is how it works:
I have an idea for a story.  I goof with it for a while, a couple three weeks or so, perhaps months, even, before I actually start writing it down ( Read more... )

December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the Japanese woke the sleeping giant and catapulted the US into WWII.  Until that time, we American's had been living a charmed life because our nearest neighbors to the north and south, the Canadians and the Mexicans, weren't inclined to make a land-grab, and really didn't have enough of a beef with our ( Read more... )

I've spent enough time battling my demons; time to start writing again.  I have the bug.

Goals for the next 3mos:

Null and Void:
1-complete 1 chapter per week on the 3rd major rewrite/draft.  I say only one chapter because with the polishing I want to do, it will take me that much time, possibly more, to work each chapter.
2-update synopsis
3-update ( Read more... )

I asked upon moving to Florida in May, if the circling vultures were trying to tell me something.  I mean, honestly, I've never seen vultures, ever, in Boise, so seeing them here, circling all the time or hanging out on the sides of the roads, freaked me out a bit.  Perhaps I wasn't too far off in thinking them a portent.

I wrote earlier this year ( Read more... )

I've been looking at this blank page for about ten minutes now, wondering what to write, and as such, stuck on what to title this post.  Which tells us something about me ( Read more... )

What?!?  Where'd the freaking month go ( Read more... )

I'm not kidding.  Well, sort of, but these water birds were huge.  Remember in Jurassic Park when the pterodactyls flew overhead, their calls to each other in the "flock"?  It sounded like a cross between crows and geese, and super loud.  The birds landed by the pond across the street.  They have to be about 3ft tall or a little better.  Brownish ( Read more... )

Because I was quoted that my life would fit in 19 linear feet.  But no, it took up 25 linear feet.  There is a cost difference.  :D  I never said I was cheap ( Read more... )

Since April 2nd, so much has happened, and not just with the move to Florida, though that aspect seems to have taken over my life, and understandably so ( Read more... )