Christmas

Hello Everybody!

Did everyone get what they wanted from Santa Claus? I did! I got a new winter coat, some beautiful new sweaters, and a boat for the next two days. Okay, so my nephew got a toy boat and I get to "sail" with him. And I got to be Dr. Kim yesterday with his Sesame Street Medicine Kit. Not to mention I was devoted to untangling all of the plastic animals so my nephew could ignore his Noah's Ark play set. I was really bummed he didn't want to play! Who does he think he is wanting to play with the musical snowmen decorations that will be up for weeks?

So I am reading my $3 book that I bought before Thanksgiving and I almost put it down within the first few pages because the one character was really ticking me off and it didn't seem to bother any other character. The character ticking me off is "perfect" in her eyes and in the story it seems that her husband is cheating on her and her children are mentally disturbed. A small part of me thinks she has it coming. Does that make me an awful person? I didn't feel so bad when the other characters started getting angry with her perfection. Now, I'm sucked into page 200 of 300.

I guess my $3 was money well spent on this book if I'm that addicted to it and feel that strongly about this one character that I love to hate. It also makes me paranoid as a writer. I like what I write-will others? I suppose it doesn't matter as long as I'm proud to put my name on it. Anyway, I hope you are enjoying your new toys as well as others presents today or cuddling up with a book that makes you angry.

Hmmm...insomnia

I went to bed last night around 10:30 (I am nothing without at least seven hours of sleep, just ask my husband), but unforunately I could not fall asleep to save my life. I was stressing over a decision I had made (a good and right decision, just a scary one) and found myself thinking about Anne, Andy, and Mark. I cannot let them go! Anyway, in my head I was running through crucial scenes to include through Mark's perspective. I have to say there is always one scene in each of the stories that I have thought of where I can map it out perfectly because it just sticks with me until I write it down. In RoV, it was scene where Andy overdosed and where Anne and Andy have a battle royale over all their secrets. Through Andy's perspective, it was a moment with his love interest.

My hope for my Christmas vacation is to job hunt for something permanent full-time because that's still the dream, buy a new wintercoat for a ridiculously cheap price, and maybe play around with my web-site. No promises that blogging will occur, but I will try my darndest. That's the beauty of vacationing in Vermont for the holidays, I don't know where I am at because I lose all sense of direction with the mountains.

P.S. FedEx did NOT come through for me today. However, I believe they are not to blame and I'm going to go ahead and blame Lenox. Lenox was like we sent your item, oh wait your item is on back order, and then we are going to send your item but you have to wait until March. Thanks Lenox and I pity your representative and the manager that I will most likely ask for tomorrow when I call to get a definitive location of my purchase!

Seasons Greetings?

So I have been feeling super rushed this holiday season! Not only that, I know I'm losing it. Today I was putting away a coupon for cinnamon rolls thinking, "Oh, maybe I'll get these next week for when I host Christmas morning." Sounds normal, right? Well, I'm going to Vermont for Christmas. Plus, Christmas is essentially next week.
I hate how busy the holidays are and I feel like I'm just trying to survive. That's not what it should be about! I do have only three Christmas presents left to wrap, one of which hasn't arrived to my house yet. Fingers crossed that FedEx doesn't drop the ball on that one!
Between all my baking, gift-wrapping, and working to earn mola-I haven't had much time or desire to write anything. Maybe my Christmas vacation will serve to clear my head. What is everyone else doing for the holidays? Does anyone feel the same way I do about the holidays being extremely rushed?

Now we're cooking (and baking too)

Hello all!

So this is my week: my book is up on Kindle via Amazon, I got two of four kinds of cookies baked for Christmas, and I finally had a major breakthrough for my job search-hence my cooking reference in the title. I got a substitute position for a maternity leave that isn't too far away from my house. I'm REALLY, REALLY excited about it!!!!!! Perhaps my book about my search for a career could have a happy ending in 2011. If nothing else, it will have a chapter where my glass is more than half full!

Also, I saw two people today who purchased my book two months ago and they both said that they loved it! It's always nice to get positive feedback. I'm still kind of frustrated with Andy's story, but that's okay. We'll work on it. Like I said before in a recent post, I think I'm going to move on to my to 1920s who-dunnit novel. I have to say that I surprised myself with how thick and complicated the plot is going to be. It will definitely be intriguing as well as challenging to write. However, anything worthwhile is challenging; otherwise what is the point?

Anyway, I'm going to go set my table for dinner as my husband is cooking dinner for myself and two friends. A home cooked meal-can this week get any better for me? Maybe I should play the lottery tomorrow night.

Moving on Up!

So I've entered the 21st century by adding my book to Kindle via amazon.com! That's kind of the awesome end of being self-published, I own the rights to my book. It would be greatly appreciated if you spread the word to Kindle readers that my book is up there. This small and crazily easy step makes me feel like I'm moving on up in the world!

Anyway, I took the time to proofread what I had written for my first sixty some pages of 1920s novel and I feel like I have a good base. I'm excited to write the end because I think it will be highly fun, but I know I've already made my first mistakes in writing anything: I'm rushing. I lack the details that make stories great. I plan on going back from to the start to add details in and then continuing on with the plot.

Well, those are my thoughts for the day. I'm going to continue the quest to clean my house, wrap gifts, and start holiday baking! Spread the word that I'm on Kindle!

Back in time...

I have been thinking about going back in time to my 1920s novel and finishing that up. I feel that I need to walk away from Anne, Andy, and Mark in order to see if I can in fact let the characters go. It might be fun to immerse myself in another world, time, and culture. "They" (all those experts of novel writing) say that the second novel is the most difficult to write whether it be from exhaustion from the first one or the feeling that you used all your good ideas in the first one. I have never felt that way, but maybe I used too many ideas in the first one to carry over to make a solid second novel with the same characters. I'm okay if I did. After all, I started novel writing to kill time and entertain myself anyway.

I have my 1920s novel start at the holidays in anyway, so perhaps the festivities of the year are sparking my craving to write this. Maybe I'll start playing around with it just to see how far I get. I do have a title for my 1920s novel, The Point of No Return. I'll come up with a way to shorten later similar to RoV.

On a different tangent, if you recall a few weeks ago I ranted about Halloween and Christmas decorations. Those damn inflatable decorations are popping up everywhere and I can't help but look at the people and think to myself, "Why are they wasting their money on that?" I would be at the mall if I had an extra $90-$200 to spend; I can always use new clothes. :-)