My new favorite comedian: Jay Larson:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFO0CkSiZfI

I'm reading Kent Kruegger's "Iron Lake" after I finished his "Orginal Grace" I couldn't help but want to search for more of those great plot lines that he is known for.  So far I'm quite impressed with the ambiance of a Minnesotan winter setting.  I also love the eerie coincidences of characters being connected.  Like tribal leaders and fishermen, judges and tyrants.

Short Story

Short Story: 

The question should be what am I not?

Well, they say I am not a psycho.  I don't dry my underwear in the hand dryers of the downtown public restroom.  I don't shout "what uuuup" like a barely teen would in a grocery store.  A broken up women looking up me from the ground while I stock shelves and she asks, "Is that how you address your customers?"

I am not a therapist.   I do not listen to the hurt purge their problems on my ears as if my ears were their garbage cans.  I am not one of those psycho ex-husbands who takes a divorce the wrong way and decides to issue a restraining order against his ex-wife and calls the police if she even shows up at a restaurant to ask for her alimony checks, while her kids squalor in the background.

The Rubber Ducky wasn't so Lucky

Short Story

"The Black of Night isn't that scary-you know?!"

"And what is scary?" 

"Scary is web surfing in the wee-hours of night and getting real bored. Exhausting every search ideal until you you start googling people."

"Oh yeah! Who'd you google?  Asks Franny.

I started with my ex boyfriends and was met with one of the scariest mugshots I ever seen.  Once I clicked on the mugshot-I was met with a world of pain.  Sentenced with fifth degree misdemeanor: assault by strangulation.

"Lucky for you, right?"

"Yeah, but the Rubber Ducky wasn't so lucky."

ballerina's jumping

love this clip of ballerina's jumping.  Gives you positive energy if all for the moments you have in the airhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viL-HEis-h4

no diggity

No diggity-you say

drain open, crap out

no diggity, no way out

Star Wars trailor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULDgJOvitpwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULDgJOvitpw 

if your anything like me, you may want to understand a movie to the ninth degree.  I like to break down movies like breaking down a book.  This Audio click will help you understand some aspects of Star Wars. I am more of an auditory person so this clip is right up my alley! 

What I'm reading now

What I'm reading now:

The Patron Saint of Desperate Situations by John Harrigan. All of Harrigan's books are pieces he researches thoroughly. But what you'll find great is the sincerity in the narrator's voice. I feel as if I'm standing alongside each of the character's in History when reading Harrigan's novel whether they're written in Minnesotan setting or in Cuba.  Catch Harrigon's books on Amazon.com

Gotta love this cake!

   

Silent Wife

The book I'm reading now:Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison. Great book if you like reading about inspiring women who fall prey to deceitful husbands.  The routines of the wife in this novel made me think about how I could organize my own days better.

Neapolin', that's what up

 

That candy cane, that sugar rain.

It ain't fallin'

thanks to my aerobic leggings

Neapolin'

Dropin' one down-

I know I'm up

I'm on that ottoman

Sugar high

Twirl my beat. 

The book I'm reading now:Faking it by Leah Marie Brown.

Great energy in this book. 

baby not mine, lol

   

I can only turn to the strategies that will help me survive,
things like music
thinks like writing
rememberin' the summer of 2012
rememberin' the ability of swimming
thanking God for the chance to work
Thanking God for the ability to walk
for movement

for hope
for love
for enjoyment
for being able to say the right thing
being ready
not stuck at home; not sleep
not in pain
not wandering in misery
moving enjoying life
even to the smallest degree
hoping

That day, I saw many things. I saw my nieces
I saw a skiing adventure
I saw beauty
I saw resilience
I moved through a storm
of emotions
I've grown from bad to worse
in hopes of good
I gone from fear to combativeness
to an ability to pick myself up and move :faster and faster
bursting...free flowing
each day a bit of sunlight
seeps through and a reminder of something:Anything 

Caleb's Crossing

    Caleb's Crossing was a novel that made me really realize that people with people its basic survival and its key to making it to the top:Whatever the top looks like....


Caleb's Crossing was a pioneer's tale about converting Native Americans and the struggle in doing so:And the goal made in part in conversion by a family whose members were passing On:literally, day to day, whether it was an infant drowning in a well, or a father getting lost at sea, or a mother dieing in child birth. or a toddler falling off a haystack.  .

Rainbow tire

road trip

Pre-halloween

Writer's tips

1.Fragments are okay and sometimes used for dramatic effect as long as you use an introductory sentence to the fragments.  Ex: The moments were beautiful:Sarah's music playing on the element's sound system.

2. Don't use use Big references if your novel doesn't even have anything to do with the topic. Ex: Using the Book of Revelations when your novel doesn't have anything to do with the Apocalypse.

3. Its often easy to employ our interest into the novel, although sometimes it can be distracting.  For example employing names of New Orleans musicians.  Instead direct contrast between the appeal of the music and a character's ongoing frustration and how the music is relaxes the character.

4.If your reader is able to draw up a list of questions they want answered by chapter 2, means that your novel is well on its way.