#Today new hollyhock plant is blooming in a new color. We now have deep and light pink
#Gardening
#Today Last night smaller red roses began to bloom along with the yellow on the same bush. Someone told me the bush was a graft, and I'd lose the yellow, but, this year, they are still happily coexisting.
#Gardening
#Today I thought I was done with Fury's Gift revisions, but a new idea popped up after emailing with my editor. Such is a writer's life. If anyone needs me I'll be hiding in my pillow fort with my laptop.
#WritingCommunity
Thanks! That was like the 5th try. It's hit and miss with my phone camera, particularly with the moon.
It is nice to see us banding together to celebrate the whole continent instead of just the United States 🙄
#Today moon within clouds. Hoping for rain soon.
If we want to claim that body of water, shouldn't it be "the Gulf of the United States"? He just shared it with the entire continent. 🤦♀️ No logic. No sense. Is the point to make everyone with any intelligence's brain explode?
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Would your MC sacrifice something (of great importance) to save the life of someone they love?
Gia is willing to sacrifice herself. I suppose that counts.
We're supposed to get rain here soon but, in the desert, it's usually a happy occasion (as long as it doesn't flood too badly.) Hope you stay warm & dry!
#WritersCoffeeClub Feb 12
What percentage of your first draft ends up in the trash?
Not a lot. I don't do separate drafts, just edit & revise one per book, but the first incarnations are always bare bones & need more added. If I edit portions out, they always first go into a separate "edits" document to await their ultimate fate. A passage might be repurposed, either within the same manuscript or another, at a later point. Very few things are actually trashed.
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She obviously wants to be tutted?
#WordWeavers Day 12
What would your MC enjoy the most about our world?
She would find parts of it pretty (the countryside rather than the cities,) & probably enjoy the food, but it would ultimately be disappointing as our world has no magery. Our water wouldn't sing, nor give her information, nor protection.
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What clothing materials or outfits feel the most comfortable to your MC?
Cali, in River's Roar, has opinions:
Comfort and functionality was preferable. Loose blouses. Soft skirts and dresses, with no confining layers or pantaloons. Better than heavy court gowns with their precious metal chains, buttons, and feathers. Extravagant undergarments seemed designed to spoil the mood.
#WritersCoffeeClub Mar 12
Do you agree with Ray Bradbury, who said, "Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things you're doomed"?
I think any craft improves with practice, so there's that, but, in Bradbury's day, they didn't have the deluge of clickbait, nor the quick churn on Amazon put out to make a buck rather than as art. Also, some authors labor for years on a single work, pouring their heart & soul into it. So, it depends on approach & intent.
#WordWeavers Oct 7
How do your MCs handle strong emotion?
I wasn't going to answer this as I have too many MCs to sort 🤣 but it occurs to me that dealing with emotions is one theme running through my books. I have MCs with anger issues, but love can also be problematic, depending on one's past. A couple of my MCs don't experience emotion the same as other people they know, for difference reasons, and have to figure this out.
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But ... but ... 🐺 😭
It was a good ending overall. Satisfying in many ways.
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Eww, sorry. Hope everything goes okay. Hoping it's like my recent scare (for another matter) where the specialist told me not to worry.
#WritersCoffeeClub Sep 11
Advice to aspiring writers?
I've seen so much great advice already! I guess I can add this: If someone tells you they can make you a best-selling author if you give them money for their "service," block them and run the other way.