Not sure if you’ve heard raccoons fighting or not but once you do, it’s a sound you’ll never forget. I have no idea how many were out there battling it out at 3:00 this morning but it sounded like they were going at it right outside the bedroom window but I think they were in the trees a bit further away.
They certainly were loud! Loud enough to wake the dead. Since they woke me, I rest my case… I sat up and asked the hubby WTF?
I’ve got the Q part of the Q&As for my website down on “paper”. I started the A part yesterday – on “paper”. For this first group there will be 7 questions although I think when I record them, I’ll group some of them together.
The questions are:
When did you start writing?
When and where do you write?
Who is/are your favourite author(s)?
Why did you choose Scotland a the setting for your novels?
In your first novel, why did you choose the Victorian era to send your heroine back to?
There are two more questions but for the life of me, I can’t think of them. I’ll revise this post when I do.
I signed up for a Writing.com account about a week ago. I know it’s that long because they e-mailed me this morning to remind me I’ve not used my account since then. Yeesh…
I’m known as Scottish Lass so watch for that name.
I’ve found yet another method of procrastinating! I updated my website last night. I’ve used research as well to whittle away the hours so I didn’t have to write.
The website hadn’t been updated since last year so it was time. Apparently, there’s nothing worse than a stagnant web presence. I still have to finish putting the photos from our trip to Scotland in 2000 up there. A rather daunting task since I have four large photo albums to go through. I’ve managed to get through the first two but since this trip was taken BD (before digital), the pictures have to be taken out, scanned and saved before I can go any further. But that’s a project for another time.
Two more scenes for Sarah’s Gift came to me yesterday. So far, I’ve only managed to get them committed to “paper”. But at least, I have a fair idea where each one will fit in. It’s just a matter of getting them put in there and fleshed out so as to blend them in at the beginning and the end so they’ll flow seamlessly.
I wasn’t sure about posting this because it’s a rather private thing but yesterday (June 7th) my husband and I celebrated our 35th wedding anniversary!
The basic ideas for a couple of scenes for the current revision of Sarah’s Gift I’m working on came to me yesterday so I got the bare bones of them captured “on paper”. Last night I inserted them where they fit, and fleshed them out some more.
Read them over this morning and made a few more minor changes before sending them off to a critique partner for her input.
I’ve set myself a goal of having this revision finished by September because my intention is to pitch to an agent and would much prefer to pitch a completed project. Actually, you shouldn’t pitch until your project is complete… Ooops, my bad. I’ve pitched this manuscript a couple of times in it’s incomplete form.
I’ve been pondering this for some time… actually since attending a Canadian Authors’ Association (National Capital Region) meeting back in May.
During the course of the meeting, the President of the group reminded the members present to check out the podcast section of their website and if anyone wanted to participate to get in touch.
So, on the way home, I began to formulate my plan. I would add podcasts to my website. How do I put these audio snippets on my site? Beats me. But if I get them created, my webmaster can worry about how to put them there.
I’ve gone out and bought myself a nice compact digital recorder that I can plug directly into my main computer through the USB port. Much easier for transferring files and better yet, it saves my creations in MP3 format.
What will I talk about? I don’t know. Will I do it in a Q&A format? Maybe.
Oh decisions, decisions.
This morning I’m meeting for coffee with a fellow writer who is in town doing research for her novel. She wants me to collaborate some facts with her as well as pick my brain about my own particular area of expertise – Home Children.
We spoke briefly on the phone last night and I’m looking forward to meeting with her in a couple of hours.
Who knows, maybe I’ll get a chance to plug my three manuscripts?
One of the tasks we were given at the workshop was to come up with two “fortune cookie” writing prompts but with a few twists. Once everyone had come up with them, we all drew two from the “hat”. If we got our own, we put it/them back and drew again.
Then the fun began. You picked which one you wanted to write on and began to write furiously (no crossing out or erasing or going back) for about 10 minutes then slowed down to a somewhat normal pace where some minor editing could be done. Over the lunch break we were to expand on our earlier writings.
The fortune I got was Your Bad Habits Will Soon Be Exposed! We were allowed to vary them a bit, so I went with something from the past coming back to haunt my protagonist.
I think I’m sitting at about two and a half pages written in long-hand and on every line. Now to get it typed into the computer and saved.
I’m thinking if this goes according to plan it could be an entry for next year’s Scene of the Crime contest. We’ll see.