Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts

Monday, September 5, 2016

Monday Meanderings - September 5th

First Meandering ...

As I write this I'm looking out the window at the cloudy sky. The weather's cooler this weekend than it has been in months. It's rather nice. It's Labor Day here in the States. We tend to forget the fight that workers in the past have done that we benefit from. So, I give you this awesome scene from Newsies.


Second Meandering ...

I got prep work and other technical stuff out of the way and am finally into edits for Swing Vote, Safe Harbors #3. I wrote the first draft nearly two years ago. It's crazy. 2017 will be the year it sees life. I'm really excited about this story.

Excerpt
Marc winced as he pulled into a stall in front of the gas station convenience store. With a groan, he dragged himself from the jeep. Using the vehicle for support, he arched his left foot and stretched the damaged muscles in his left calf. They cramped.

He sucked in air at the too-familiar pain and steadied his breathing. Once the spasms had calmed a little, he began the slow series of stretching exercises his physical therapist had given him.

“Just keep on moving until you’re gone,” a male voice said from behind, the sound rough with years.
Marc tried to turn, but his stupid leg cramped again. He lost his balance and stumbled against the door.

“Drunk—or high. Fool kids. A waste of space.”

“I beg your pardon?” Marc finally looked at the old man and tried not to be offended at the remark. No point in ticking off the locals.

“We don’t want ya. We don’t need ya. Go back where ya come from.” The old man spit some disgusting dark liquid out the side of his mouth before stomping inside the convenience store.

Third Meandering ...

There's progress on the house, but it's not something I can post pictures of. They installed the basement plumbing and next week they should pour that foundation and do some backfilling of dirt around the outside (which they dug wider than needed to give them room to work). After that they start framing the house itself. Then I'll have pictures.

Something I have planned for my basement stairs ...

Click her to see where you can buy these.
What I have to do is figure out if I want to buy them (like in the picture) or paint them myself. I do have artist kids, after all. And I have to decide which books to include.

What books would you have on your stairs?


Thursday, May 17, 2012

I Love Life . . . and Motherhood (in its many manifestations)

I love my book. 

 I better. 
I'm its mother.

No one, not even my sweet hubby who's been so supportive of my journey, is as deeply invested in it and my characters as I am. Friends and family try to be good sports about it. There's a lot of eye rolling, but I'm used to it. I went through that with them about Harry Potter, too.

They love me me anyway.

With this R&R, I'm on the 13th edit/rewrite. I've spent so many hours in my characters' company that I know them really well. Better than some of my dearest friends--because real people don't spill all their guts.

My life changed when I had my first child, a son. Until that moment, I'd never truly realized the depth of human love. Of a mother's love. It worried me as I prepared for the birth of my second child if the love I felt for my son would be diminished, divided, with the new addition. Or if I might not be able to love the new baby as much.

Stupid woman.

The love for my son didn't lessen with the coming of my daughter, and the love I felt for my beautiful daughter was no less than what I felt for my son. I discovered an important lesson.

Love defies mathematics.

I'd been operating on the assumption that my capacity to love was a finite thing.

Wrong!

With the addition of each child, I found that my capacity to love increased. It grew so I not only had a greater ability to love all these wonderful little people I had the privilege of mothering, but that I had more love for everyone else as well.

So how does this relate to my book? My other baby?

It means it's okay to fall in love with new projects, new characters, new worlds.

*sigh*

I love being a writer.


Have a wonderful weekend. Summer is almost here. 

 Life is good.
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