Sorrysorrysorry!
I know I've been missing in action for the past few days. I'm at the library now. My PC at home snarls and nips at me every time I look at it. I think it likes being left alone. It sits there, a malevolent presence, daring me to try to touch the wires that hang like tentacles, spilling from the counter to the floor. A hideous sight that makes me tremble.
I swear it won't get the best of me, dear readers! I swear I will fight this thing. Perhaps gloves. Or a rake. Yes, one of those many-tined rakes with large teeth. This computer needs to know who's boss!
I'm looking for desks today. Tomorrow, or tonight, though I hate to get close to it while I'm alone, I will try to untangle the cords. You should see them. They look like long hair that snarls right at the crown. Almost badly enough to cut it off, for the whimpers as you pull a brush through it would tear out your heart. Oh my!
I will triumph. I hope...... If you don't hear from me in days, you'll know I've been devoured.
Life is treacherous.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Friday, February 24, 2012
Moving Day Tomorrow
This is going to be a quick post. I'm hoping it works as I am using my Droid. A friend was helping me pack and tore down the computer and its components. I hope I can figure out how to put it back together tomorrow afternoon. Besides that, I now have wifi and don't know how to use it. Interesting challenges.
But isn't that what life's about? And don't you just know I'll be able to use the expertise on a story?
Life is an adventure.
But isn't that what life's about? And don't you just know I'll be able to use the expertise on a story?
Life is an adventure.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Magic: What To Do With It
Read a blog tonight about magic. The author had attended a conference and she shared some of the highlights. http://leigh-covington.blogspot.com/2012/02/abracadabra.html
The first - magic has to have a purpose and drive the story.
I think most sane people know you can't write a story solely based on magic. Harry Potter had lots of magic in it, but it was the characters who drove the story.
That's what I like to do with mine - have the characters drive the story.
I don't spend a lot of time explaining the magic or how it works. It's just there... at first, my character is surprised by it. She's never had it before, but things happen, and now she's got it. Part of the story is the learning curve, but so much in her life has changed that the magic seems a distant blessing.
Survival is of the utmost importance. If she can use magic for her survival, then well and good. However, she's got no time to explore that new part of her. And she's got a brother to save.
So the magic is there. I don't want it huge. I want it peripheral. I hope that works.
Life is magical.
The first - magic has to have a purpose and drive the story.
I think most sane people know you can't write a story solely based on magic. Harry Potter had lots of magic in it, but it was the characters who drove the story.
That's what I like to do with mine - have the characters drive the story.
I don't spend a lot of time explaining the magic or how it works. It's just there... at first, my character is surprised by it. She's never had it before, but things happen, and now she's got it. Part of the story is the learning curve, but so much in her life has changed that the magic seems a distant blessing.
Survival is of the utmost importance. If she can use magic for her survival, then well and good. However, she's got no time to explore that new part of her. And she's got a brother to save.
So the magic is there. I don't want it huge. I want it peripheral. I hope that works.
Life is magical.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Future Authors
I was reading a blog about THE CALL. Writers shared what happened before THE CALL and how they felt when they got it. It was awesome. And Sorrow-filled. http://emusdebuts.wordpress.com/
I'm not sure why I felt such sorrow. Perhaps it was the realization that so many people are desperately trying to get published.
Perhaps it's that the haul is long. Nothing is easy about the process. Not only is it a daily struggle, it can be a decade's struggle.
That's why we have to have friends, a support system, the Bible/Koran/Talmud. This is a battle. Not only in the writing -- yikes, I can only shudder at the times I've faced the Muse with open sword and said 'Where the *(^^)* have you been?" But also with the editing process, the looking-for-an-agent, the publishing house, the hiding under the bed while the family says, 'Of course you're a writer, dear.' Shame falls upon me when I look in their eyes.
That's when I turn to my support system. Even if it's only one person, people, get yourself some support.
The process is hard. Bitter. But glorious. Wait 'til you get to say, "I've got a contract!"
Life is good.
I'm not sure why I felt such sorrow. Perhaps it was the realization that so many people are desperately trying to get published.
Perhaps it's that the haul is long. Nothing is easy about the process. Not only is it a daily struggle, it can be a decade's struggle.
That's why we have to have friends, a support system, the Bible/Koran/Talmud. This is a battle. Not only in the writing -- yikes, I can only shudder at the times I've faced the Muse with open sword and said 'Where the *(^^)* have you been?" But also with the editing process, the looking-for-an-agent, the publishing house, the hiding under the bed while the family says, 'Of course you're a writer, dear.' Shame falls upon me when I look in their eyes.
That's when I turn to my support system. Even if it's only one person, people, get yourself some support.
The process is hard. Bitter. But glorious. Wait 'til you get to say, "I've got a contract!"
Life is good.
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