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Another round of edits please…

07 Sunday Jul 2019

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Though I should have been writing other things today I grabbed my manuscript and couldn’t put it down!

My friends… I have added another 1,000 words to the first 50 pages of my novel!  I couldn’t believe it!  I have three times that much to go so does that mean an additional 3,000 words?  It’s not a bad thing as that will bring my close to 55,000 words but…

I thought I was done with it and it would only needed some spelling and grammar corrections!

Sigh!

Of course my NaNoWriMo project has been put completely on hold with all this and I need to get off my butt and get back to work on the other three articles as well… thankfully I did a fair bit of fleshing out of those so I can easily pick up where I left off.

I need another week off of work… possibly more!  These are the moments when the feelings are most intense… when I wish beyond wishes that my novels, even a few of them, had sold, with movie rights so that I had every hour of every day to sit and write… the articles, for the paper and, of course, more novels that would, naturally, continue to sell.

However, the reality is I am back to work tomorrow so everything going forward will now take me longer.

Also, I had added a week to my daily blogging and I’m not certain, after this post, if I will continue not.  I will see how I feel after my first day back to work tomorrow… you never know, I might find some inspiration or I might want to curse a blue streak!

Even if I don’t continue daily blogging I will return to weekly, or maybe twice a week and, as always, keep you up to date!  I hope to have a title and synopsis for this novel sooner than later but, apparently, I have to edit it again to make it happier!

Putting Words in Someone Else’s Mouth

02 Sunday Jun 2019

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As an author I should be the last person to complain about words being put into someone else’s mouth and as a woman who loves the Hallmark movies, especially the Christmas ones, the ones on this Wedding June, many of which are sequels to the Christmas ones, are driving me crazy today!

For both Marrying Mr. Darcy that ended an hour and a half ago and Wedding in Graceland which is still on the families are driving me crazy!  The bride and groom are from different worlds, as in worlds apart, and therefore their families have different ideas of what the wedding should be.  Of course you have the down-to-earth common thinkers and then the hoity-toity stuck-up snobs who want three million guests and neither family is concerned with what the bride and groom want.

So this one, right now, the mother of the groom and the mother of the bride are at odds over decorations and when the bride says she likes both equally her mother says “I think what she’s saying is she wants to go with traditional”… so it’s been almost four hours of movies with those sorts of assumptions and putting words into someone’s mouth.

Sigh!

I realize that as authors we do this all the time with every character we develop.  We give them the stupid ideas, we give them the smart ideas and we get them to do things that other people roll their eyes at but we do manage to tell a story from beginning to end and they are OUR characters!

In the movies they are someone else’s characters but I also think that, to a certain degree, they are merely trying to create enough conflict to get the story to fit into a two-hour time slot so it feels like they’re reaching.  I’m not saying weddings and families aren’t different nor are families always going to be on the same page and understanding but I think the biggest thing we try to teach our own kids is to communicate which is the one thing not happening in these movies… at least not these two!

So, my author peeps, keep creating those characters with their flaws but try to keep characters from putting too many words into other character’s mouths!  Let them think for themselves!

I’m Just Not Happy…

28 Sunday Oct 2018

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I have been busy, yes, too busy to even come up with a blog post.  Too busy and too overwhelmed to come up with a blog post.

And incredibly disappointed.  In myself, in the new job, and, in some ways, the world in general.

I should write about it!

As anyone who has been following this blog knows, I was incredibly unhappy at the old job.  And I actually have NO regrets whatsoever in leaving.  I miss it because it was my home for more than 12 years but I don’t miss the stuff!

I knew going out that the new job was likely not to be my final stop but I didn’t think that a month in I’d be as disillusioned as I am already.  And maybe it’s completely related to being told on day 2 that the entire office needs to be packed up for painting and then not being given enough time to unpack it and doing training on top of it all which meant less time to unpack and organize.  Out of only 15 shifts I have had a trainee with me for 7! I never really got the chance to settle in… oh, and now we’re getting new furniture which means that at some point in the very near future, everything has to be packed up, again!  I also haven’t adapted to the new schedule yet either.

So I’m starting to open my job post emails again though I haven’t applied for anything, yet.  I really thought I could just coast through the rest of the year at least before I ramped up the search.  I have to admit, I do miss the challenges of family practice.  In whatever I do, I also need to make sure I have free time and hours to offer the wellness studio.

So starting Thursday is NaNoWriMo!  Let’s see if I can not only get off my butt and write every day but that I can find, deep in the recesses of my brain, a story to tell!  There’s not much there right now!

The other awesome, exciting thing is that Christmas movies start on Thursday on W Channel here in Canada… tonight on Hallmark in the US.  Just in case anyone needed to know that!  So this Thursday, since it’s one of my days off, my intention is to have W on all day and just bask in the movies and the messages they send.  I am going to miss that this year… it was one of the upsides of my surgery last year even though it didn’t happen until the 16th of November.

I am so excited about the movies starting this year because it has made me realize that despite my surgery last year and the circumstances around that, it was a very special Christmas.  Being off (yes, post-surgical pain and the subsequent repercussions included), allowed me to bask in the season… my favourite season.  I had visitors, I was surrounded by my Christmas decorations.  I could listen to my Christmas music and watch the movies.

I recorded about a dozen of them and I have been watching them… they have been grounding me almost… and with the endings, yes, as predictable as they are, I am usually in tears… that’s how much the messages are getting to me.

It has been a long, tough year, almost 2 years and I’m seeing things in much different light than I did… hopefully that’s as much a part of maturing as it is growth.  Spiritual growth even though the waist is growing a bit too.  I can feel the change and, when I’m at peace, I’m enjoying it immensely.

And for starters…

24 Sunday Sep 2017

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why did my computer restart yesterday and I was logged out of EVERYTHING?  I’ve had to log back into sites that I haven’t logged into in, well, forever!

Okay, so now that that’s off my chest… it’s hot here!  It has reached 30 degrees the last several days.  I, personally, am loving it because I hate the cold and, frankly, you can’t have everything!

After everything I have gone through this year I think my wanting to be happy is the least I could ask for.  Of course I’m not there yet.  The specialist’s appointment is on October 11th.  Just over 2 weeks away now.

I’ve been trying to write.  I’m working on a “sequel” to a movie that I fell in love with many, many years ago.  Of course I’m changing character names and the year and some of the storyline but it’s one of those movies I found on DVD and still watch almost 30 years later.  It’s one of those movies where you always wonder what happened to them after that night because they’re so young and have their lives ahead of them.

It’s worth a shot anyway.  Maybe it will be one of the many that will remain always and forever on my unpublished shelf but I will have satisfied my curiosity!

The storm at work has not settled either.  I will bring news on that when I have it.

I really do feel like I’m in the eye of a tornado and I just keep swirling around and around sometimes even feeling sick.  Up until just now I always felt I was on that ship that was tossed about in the midst of a hurricane.  Maybe the tornado is a better comparison.  I don’t really know.

Every emotion is jumbled with the next.  Every time I want to move forward, I end up backing up.  Every time I want some peace and quiet the storm gets louder.

I wonder if and when it will ever end.  I have a wedding to go to next Saturday.  That will instill a little hope, I hope.

After that, it’s Oktoberfest here and that always makes me melancholy as well.  I think because I used to be out there.  I used to love going and I haven’t been in such a long, long time.  It’s like everything.  Every good thing seems to come to an end.

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