Chuff! Chuff!

The wip is steaming along and I'm now up to chapter ten. I know I'm not delving anywhere near as deeply for those emotions as I should be--writing it is far too easy for that! But as this is a first draft and time is ticking on, I simply want to get it down. But things are getting more and more fraught for my characters. Yay!

In other news I'm meeting up with Nell Dixon, my writing friend who's recently sold to Little Black Dress. I always look forward to catching up with her. There's nothing quite like gossiping with someone who 'get's you.' Anyway, I see coffee and cake in my future....

No more sticky bits!

I believe I have finally trudged my way through the sticky patch in my WIP. I knew where I needed to be but wasn't sure how to get there. JulieC's comment on making sure you have rock solid characters flipped the switch. It was my goal with this ms to create characters with solid GMC and make them drive the story, so instead of flailing aimlessly around I sat down and thought what my characters would be thinking and what their goals would be at that point in the story. Chapter eight will need revisions of gigantic proportions but I feel I can at last move forward.



CarolC, whose a fellow M&P regular over at e-harl and who I had the pleasure of meeting (along with her bump) at the RNA conference this year posted a link of Eric Bana-fine hero material I think you'll agree, so I thought I'd post my version, which of course I have for purely research purposes. *Big Grin*

I love my cat. She EATS spiders. I hate spiders. I love my cat.

Sigh. Some days the writing is easy-ish. Some days it’s hard. Very hard. Today is one of those days when every word I write sucks. Utterly sucks. I keep telling myself that writing crap is better than writing nothing at all—you can fix crap. But honestly, I shouldn’t be letting myself get away with that anymore.

I’m at that in-between stage that http://www.melthegreatest.blogspot.com/ posted about on her blog a little while back. I’m not a newbie anymore, but I’m not published. I’ve been given feedback and encouragement by both published authors and editors, but all the pieces haven’t fitted into the puzzle yet.
I’ll get there-that’s something I’m determined to do, but sometimes the steps needed to take your writing up to the next level seem mighty steep.

So, to perk myself up I'm going to post some beefcake.

Any takers?

Toys for boys.

Usually as a family we do things together, but last weekend I had loads of errands to run so my hubby took Edward with him whilst I had Olivia. Edward helped daddy get a few jobs done before they headed off to an open day at a local quarry. Apparently, as my hubby uses lots of stone in his job he thought it a good idea to see where it came from. Personally, I think he went for the trucks.

Olivia and I had a great day too and I cherished the 'girly' time together. I never really went out shopping with my Mom, mainly because she simply didn't have time with running a business. So spending a leisurely morning with my girl was bliss. Although, I think she literally shopped until she dropped.

Cat nap shocker.....

Obviously my work still lacks that page turning quality....

Reasons for not writing part two...

And this is Olivia's room......yes, pink is her favorite colour, and yes, she loves Butterflies. This is of course the girl who loves digging in the dirt and making mud pies.

I am still trying to take a good picture of Scrappy the cat, but no one told me how difficult is was to get a picture of a black cat without it looking like a blob with eyes, which at its current ingestion rate is what it will end up looking like in real life.

Reasons for not writing....

This summer I should have been writing. Instead I threw myself into decorating our house which was in sore need of a little TLC. Initially I thought this would be a simple task, but three truck loads of dust bunnies and sixteen bin-bags of old toys later I have at least half the house under control. Anyway, this is Edward's room.