Busy Two Years!

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.