For today: Monday, August 10, 2009 Outside My Window… It’s starting to look a bit gloomy, but I doubt it will rain (even though the plants could always use it). I am thinking… I have way too much to do before our trip to St. Pete! I am thankful for… The Internet. It saves me [...]
Archive for August, 2009
7 Aug
Writing by Faith (and not by sight)
After two days of reading loads of literary agent blogs, my head is spinning. I’m not one of those who writes with the goal of publication. I write because I can’t help myself. Just ask my friend Sabrina, who could probably show you whole boxes of letters I’ve written her over the years—letters about nothing, [...]
6 Aug
The Spaces Between
Last night, I began revisions on chapter six, the one that was giving me fits in yesterday’s post. I think I figured out why it wasn’t working. Two main reasons: 1) I had an important scene shown from my female protagonists POV (point of view); then I switched scenes and went into my male protagonist’s POV [...]
5 Aug
P.O.V. Peril: Questioning My ‘Wise Guides’
Chapter Six is giving me fits. It should have been done already. I should be typing it up, getting it ready to send to my critique partners. But no. It’s sitting in my red binder, looking really really bad. A big mess. It’s only “sort of” done. All the scenes are there, but the last [...]
4 Aug
The Simple Woman’s Daybook
Ordinarily, we do The Simple Woman’s Daybook on Mondays; but on Sunday night I had an attack of vertigo and wound up spending practically all day yesterday in bed, recovering. So this is my Daybook for today, Tuesday, August 4, 2009. Outside My Window… Sunlight is streaming through the pines and oaks. The yellow pepper [...]
1 Aug
Flicks
Only managed to get one-and-a-half pages written yesterday, because I got wrapped up in movies. First, in the afternoon, I saw that Gospel Movie Channel (or is it Gospel Music Channel?) was showing the 1996 made-for-TV movie Home Song, based on the novel by LaVyrle Spencer. Spencer used to be my absolute favorite author ever, [...]
