Hello! I’m deep into writing the first draft of my next novel of the Haunted Series. So deep that I have been lax on my weekly blog, doing my laundry, nails, hair, shopping, and exercises. Determined not to be one of those authors, I’ve decided to take care of many of my neglected activities, except for my laundry, nails, hair, shopping and exercises.
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Happy Halloween
Happy Halloween! After preparing three pumpkins for carving, I’ve started to call it hollow-it-out-ween and are-you-happy-you-stabbed-yourself-again, duffus-ween. Anyway, here we are again at my favorite time of year. I look forward to seeing frost on the pumpkins, viewing colorful autumnal leaves, and handing out fistfuls of miniature candies to future dental patients and members of Jenny Craig. No healthy food for Halloween or placid toddler-friendly decorations here. In my neck of the woods, the houses are decked out with balls of light, skulls a plenty, a few dozen ghouls clawing their way out of the ground, and the supervising parents walking around with questionable beverages in their hands.
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Rabbit Holes
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A while ago, I heard someone say this about doing book research, “I got lost down a rabbit hole.” Aside from reading Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, I never really thought about rabbit holes before. That was until I researched wedding dresses for a certain Steampunk wedding. As I do with most research, I started by googling. Wow. I was surprised by the multitude of choices. Being a visual thinker, I chose to look at images first. “Images” gives you just about anything remotely associated with the words you google.
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Just in case some of you missed it: I released Mind Fray the last weekend in September. Most authors have firm release dates and have the discipline to wait for those carved in stone dates. I, on the other hand lack this discipline and feel that if it’s ready, then release it.
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School House Mystery
in Musings
Red Pen and I were traveling when we came across these two old school houses. They were, as my mother would say, kitty-corner to each other. Did the community outgrow the first and, instead of adapting it, built another? Both are presently abandoned. The first looks like it had some rehabbing started a few years past, but it too now sat unloved by all but a writer with an imagination. Thoughts of these buildings sat in my subconscious a while until I wrote Something Old. I thought, what if the school houses were haunted by past students? Why would they come back? Did they die there or was it happy memories that pulled them?
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