I can't believe I haven't posted in two years. Well, I keep thinking I need to make more of an effort, so maybe this will be my catalyst.
Since my last post, Jeff and I have been to Gettysburg, Washington, D.C., and Wisconsin Dells. I got some new good ideas for writing projects and last year I wrote a Young Adult Novella called "Bow Wow: The Dog Girl" about taking back your power from bullies. And at Nanowrimo last year I wrote the book called "The Art of the Competitive Wedding." In 2016, Nano book was "A to Z: The love story of Amber and Zach."
I was planning on spending the entire past year doing edits on all of these projects and publishing them, but instead I got sucked back into the quilting guild, I mean I voluntarily decided to help out my very dearest friends who all happen to be part of this wonderful quilting guild, and have been very busy trying to put together a quilt show. Well, it was last weekend! Check out the photos here.
Too busy to write a Blog Post? I think not.
It didn't occur to me until just now when I logged onto BlogSpot to start a whole new Blog on another passion of mine, Movies and TV shows from South East Asia. Yeah, that's a thing. And I want to tell people about it because it's starting to have a wonderful effect on my life. It's a whole different emphasis on storytelling that we have forgotten, or possibly never had. Granted some of it is formulaic. But more on that when I actually write the Blog!
As far as my writing goes, I plan to write a series of Short Stories for Nano this year that will end up as one coherent book. It's a generational book with the link between each story being a Pearl Necklace. It starts with the fisherman who first collected the pearls, and set them into a necklace for his wife on their wedding day. Then it goes down through generations of their family becoming both a blessing and a curse to whoever receives the necklace. I can only think of one way to write this whole story and that's through a series of shorts. So I'm going to try this.
I wrote a short story based on a funky dream I had. It's called Power-ups. I don't know how to end it though. I need to have another dream I think! Hahaha!
Also earlier this year I found a local treasure in the personage of a woman by the name of Susan Stebben, who has agreed to be my editor. She works very fast, so fast in fact that I can't keep up with her. But she does a great job and she's a communicator. I'm never in any doubt that I know what she's talking about. Thank you, Susan, I love you!
My dear friends, Victor and Sharon Vreeland are also editing for me. Sharon is now reading "Bow Wow: The Dog Girl" for me. I expect a report back from her any day now.
In the meantime: Here are more pictures taken in the Dells of Wisconsin.
Sharon Vreeland and I sitting outside the cheese shop.
