I can see the end, so why am I lost?

Apr 24 , 2008
I’ve had to step back from Merry for a few days. I’m lost. I just can’t seem to get perspective on the plot. Either we really are going to kill one of the main [...]
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Swimming With Dolphins

Apr 23 , 2008
I promised you guys that the next vacation blog would be about dolphins. Well, here it is. We went to Dolphins Plus on Key Largo. I?m having a little trouble choosing pictures for [...]
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Slogging

Apr 22 , 2008
Today is one of those gloomy, rainy days. Most of the time I love days like this, but today seems unsettled. Storm is coming, you can feel it like a prickle along the back of your [...]
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Playing with my muse

Apr 21 , 2008
Eight pages of Merry. Seven pages of the next Anita. But yesterday my second writing session was something I hadn’t done in years: a short story. I have seventeen pages of a [...]
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Movie in the middle of the day

Apr 20 , 2008
One of the new things I’m trying to do is enjoy my success. Part of that is that my schedule, though arduous, is flexible. So, this week, Jon and I went to a movie in the [...]
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Earthquake

Apr 18 , 2008
We woke up at 4:40 this morning to an earth quake. We’re all right, the side of the house wasn’t shaken that hard. I lived in Los Angeles for a few years, we’d [...]
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No fight, afterall

Apr 17 , 2008
Still having trouble with this scene. Not only is it not going to be the big fight scene I originally planned, but it may not be a fight scene at all. Merry has figured out a way [...]
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Not the scene I thought I’d be writing

Apr 16 , 2008
I got no pages yesterday. God knows I tried, but nothing. I finally had to walk away from the computer, the book, all of it. I could feel my imagination thinking, rolling around, [...]
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Belle of the Night

Apr 15 , 2008
Remember the cactus pictures from Crane Point in Florida? Well, a fan is pretty sure she’s identified them. Hylocereus undatus in latin, but I prefer the common terms. Belle [...]
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Drove the Foose to Lunch

Apr 14 , 2008
I drove the Foose to lunch today. I drove it to the restaurant, and back home again. In the past, I’ve driven either to, and let Jon drive back, or let him drive out, and I [...]
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