Step Away From The Book .....

Now here's the deal - you start to write a chapter - if you're lucky you've called it something more than just a number. This is good, I'm thinking, because it gives the reader just a little tiny clue as to what that chapter is about - so far, so good! Then, you start to type. At first, the words flow -so much so you glance at the wordcount thinking 'I must be well through' - again if you're on a roll, you may well be! Then it happens - see you know, or have some vague idea as to what you want to happen in this chapter, but all of a sudden you're stumped - IT'S NOT FLOWING!

CRAP!

So - if you're me, you go downstairs, make yourself a cup of tea and return to the laptop. All of a sudden a little nugget of something starts to flow through and you're off - ONLY TO HIT ANOTHER WALL! Now, while you've been tapping away your tea's gone cold! So - if you're me, you go back downstairs and make another one - thinking - 'this time I'm drinkin it'!

I did this THREE times last night .... yeah - I know you're getting it - I can already see you smiling!

PS: and here I am tonight trying very hard to get back on track ... and you've guessed it (I'm on blogger because I've run out of milk!)!!!

End of Day - Fav Line.

Favourite line .....

For a moment she was quiet – mulling everything over in her mind. Then in the distance the haunting howl of a wolf pierced the silence of her room and Elizabeth Rose screamed.


Next chapter begins......but sleep is needed first!

I'm a Coward!

I've just realised I'm a coward. For around 18 months or so I've been having fun on EHarl - entering the writing competitions with some great feedback. Of course, this all helps to bolster one's confidence and does get the writing juices flowing. So why is it, when it actually comes down to it, I've never actually submitted to a publisher? Now you could put it down to the fact that maybe I've been trying to make sure that my writing is falling into the genre that my voice best suits - I could go for that! Truth is though, when it comes down to it, I'm scared - scared of that big, bad, 'R'!! Now I'm wondering if I can ever get past the fear long enough to take the first step!

Continuing on - Enemies are Face to Face ...... Let the Battle for the Damsel Begin!

"Don’t you like them?” – I asked quietly, not really wanting to know the answer but needing desperately to find something to take my mind of the building nausea.

Closing line/s for tonight ......

Did I need protection from James Alexander? What a strange notion. Not once in twenty years had I ever thought I needed protection – so why now?

....... not a bad evening! Progress!

Fourth Chapter ..... Altered Images

So my three main characters have had their say and whilst I'm not saying that I'll not go back and tweak or indeed even add to what they've said, I'm moving on to Chapter 4! And yes .... it looks like I'm calling it Altered Images - unless something else springs to mind while I'm writing!

We need to talk about Kevin .... by Lionel Shriver

Recently I took a break from reading AN AWFUL LOT OF PARANORMAL (laughling) .... to read something way different - enter - Lionel Shriver and We Need to Talk about Kevin!

Now Kevin is one seriously deranged child, and, like most people, I never saw that ending coming until it hit me a smack in the face!

The book is written as a series of letters from wife to ex husband after their son Kevin kills a few or 12 people in his school!

I believe it's the Catholic Church who say 'give me a child until the age of 5 and I'll show you the man' or words to that effect! This being the case, then Kevin really just never had a hope!

If, as some say, a child can hear you even when it's growing in the womb, then Kevin spent 9 months listening to his father wittering on to his mother about the fact that 'she should watch what she ate - after all - was she not thinking of their child - did she wish to harm it even at this (ahem pre-birth) stage? .... or ..... 'how could you dance around the living room like that - have you no thought for the safety of our unborn child?' ..... and so on and so forth.

Then, after birth, there were all those 'negative vibes' from his mother - because yes, we're also told that children are very perceptive as babies and pick up on that stuff too!

Like I said ..... the child never had a hope of growing up normal, did he?

Anyway - it made for interesting reading, and in many ways, was quite thought provoking for those of us bringing up children.

Favourite Line .......

Second Chapter - the hero so far..... favourite line -

"Her blood was cleansed - she was healed and she was mine."


That guy certainly has a way with words!