Musings
Here I am as promised with pictures of my office. I admit I will either be fussing around with book placement in the future, or I’ll just learn where I put things and move on. Yes, there is a bit of a madness to how I have the books on the shelves. Some are alphabetical, some are in collections, and others (from recently unearthed boxes) just fit.
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What is it with dolls? In Ghostly Attachments, I used a doll to aid PEEPs in dealing with the horrors of the nursery. The doll that gave me inspiration in the book is my husband’s doll, Hansel, bought for him when he was a baby in France. Hansel is really loveable, but maybe it’s because he obviously likes me best and we’ve become quite attached. The Red Pen, like Jesse Holden in CID, hates clown dolls.
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Have you ever looked backwards to see what you were doing on this day a few months or years ago? Facebook helps us out in relation to our time on FB, but what about the time before social media’s computers kept track of our every internet move? People had diaries, and I’m not just speaking about those little pink books with very easy to pick locks on them. I’m talking about journals. These books give us insights into the daily workings of households, and many also give us tidbits of gossip from which we learn so much about the social network of the era in which they are written.
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It occurs to me that it’s extremely hard to hold on to a positive thought in this negative society. Regardless of our political, ethical, or ambitious leanings, we are faced with a barrage of negative actions, verbal and tangible, coming at us from all sides.
It’s destroying positivity. But how has this happened? Let’s say you see, hear, or read something that goes against your core beliefs. Instead of holding your anger in check, you unleashed it. Negativity thrives on hatred. Negative people attract other negative people, and before you know it, you not only don’t recognize these people with whom you associate, but you no longer recognize yourself.
This anger is brewing to a point of being explosive. It doesn’t matter who started it. It must stop, and we can stop it.
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Bird flying away into a wonderful sunrise.
I know quite a few of you have had an unexpected visitor, be it corporeal or paranormal. I guess I fall somewhere in between. I’d like to share with you my very recent paranormal experience. I’m still trying to decide if it was the unexpected visitor or was I? Here’s the background. My hubby and I decided to take a vacation, just the two of us. We didn’t plan on visiting anyone, so we were a bit quiet about where we were going. We decided to stay in the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Michigan. Hubby registered in May for our few days in September to make sure we got the Mackinac Suite – it is one of the few with a balcony overlooking the island. At the time, I mentioned that the Grand Hotel is haunted, but to my knowledge, no one had reported any strange goings-on in the suite of rooms we reserved. Boy was I wrong.
Read MoreI couldn’t think of any great additions to the human casting for PEEPs characters, so I’ve cast animals instead. This is a very silly blog post. It lacks logic and any attempt at true research. Enjoy! ~ The Red Pen.
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Blog time again! I’m in the process of writing book #20 of the Haunted Series. Because of this, my mind is in another world, so forgive me if I’m a bit inattentive here and on FB for a while. Last week, a few readers asked me: if the Haunted Series were brought to the big or little screen, who would I see playing whom. I think the most difficult thing to do is to take a character I have created and try to find a human that looks like them to me.
In only two cases have I used a real life person as stimulus for a character. Jake was loosely taken from the WebGuy’s good friend, who is notoriously vague when it comes to answering questions. I thought this attitude would make for an ironic ghost in the computer system of PEEPs. The other character is Ed, aka He-who-walks-through-time. I took inspiration from Dwayne Johnson’s (The Rock) Scorpion King character for my Superhuman.
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I’m back from my minibreak and ready to return to the first draft of book # 20, tentatively called “Give him enough rope.” This title occurred to me as I was driving per my navigation system’s instructions down a one-lane gravel road in the middle of nowhere. I thought, I’ll just not question the computer, and I continued on, giving it enough rope, so to speak. Uh oh. It was four tense miles, but I came out of it with a book title and a dust-covered vehicle. By the way, if you want to see the USA, now’s the time to do it. Gas prices are low and the navigation systems seem to be having fun and are taking us for a ride. Speaking of rides, Cid has been selling very well. Thank you to all who have purchased and read the first of the Cid Garrett P.I. series.
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