Hello, gentle readers! Hope you are all well
and staying safe!
Well, here it is, another Sunday morning (that’s
when I write this blog) and I’ve already been up for several hours, working on
The Madam and Mr. MacLean (hahahahaha, I’m always up early, usually before the
sun comes up because after years of doing so, I can no longer sleep in, even on weekends).
You know, when I started this story, I didn’t like my heroine very much. She is/was such a different kind of character than I usually write, but I have to say, the more I’m working on her, watching her change, seeing what she can become, the more I like her. She isn’t (or wasn’t) a bad person…just…different, but she is growing on me, and I hope she grows on you, too. Her name is Sheridan.
I’ve been working on her a lot over the past couple days (I took PTO from the day job as I have too many hours and I need to burn some…my company only allows so many hours to be rolled over to the next year). Anyway, I made a three-day weekend into a five-day weekend, and I can’t tell you how much I’m enjoying my time off (oh, I will pay for it when I get back to the office on Tuesday, believe me, but for now, the time off has been wonderful).
I’ve been writing, as you know. A lot. Both on my computer and long-hand (I try to jot down ideas as they come to me…yesterday, that one idea turned into three hand-written pages…I should have just come into my office and typed, but I was in the middle of doing other things). I’m still all over the place because one thought leads to another and you know how that happens BUT even though I’m not even close to it, I wrote the epilogue. The words were in my head (I woke up with the scene and dialogue so had to run with it). I’ve done this before…written the epilogue before I wrote everything else and it seems to work fine. Gives me a goal to get to. I did not type “The End”. Never do until I’m really there. Actually, I never type “The End” when I finish a story. I always type “The Beginning” because it is the beginning of the rest of these characters lives.
What else have I done on my time off? Well, I cleaned and did laundry because there’s really no time off from that, but I was also able to watch two movies. I recommend The Thursday Murder Club. Pierce Brosnan is still a hunk and half, even with his white hair. I also watched The Six Triple Eight and admit to getting very ‘verklempt’. I didn’t cry, per se, but my eyes did get all watery and there might have been a tear or two (or twenty) that rolled down my cheek. Good movie, based on a true story. I would recommend that one too, whether you like history or not. The acting was phenomenal!
And that’s about all for me…Stay well! Stay safe! And remember to spread kindness wherever you go!
Marie
You know, when I started this story, I didn’t like my heroine very much. She is/was such a different kind of character than I usually write, but I have to say, the more I’m working on her, watching her change, seeing what she can become, the more I like her. She isn’t (or wasn’t) a bad person…just…different, but she is growing on me, and I hope she grows on you, too. Her name is Sheridan.
I’ve been working on her a lot over the past couple days (I took PTO from the day job as I have too many hours and I need to burn some…my company only allows so many hours to be rolled over to the next year). Anyway, I made a three-day weekend into a five-day weekend, and I can’t tell you how much I’m enjoying my time off (oh, I will pay for it when I get back to the office on Tuesday, believe me, but for now, the time off has been wonderful).
I’ve been writing, as you know. A lot. Both on my computer and long-hand (I try to jot down ideas as they come to me…yesterday, that one idea turned into three hand-written pages…I should have just come into my office and typed, but I was in the middle of doing other things). I’m still all over the place because one thought leads to another and you know how that happens BUT even though I’m not even close to it, I wrote the epilogue. The words were in my head (I woke up with the scene and dialogue so had to run with it). I’ve done this before…written the epilogue before I wrote everything else and it seems to work fine. Gives me a goal to get to. I did not type “The End”. Never do until I’m really there. Actually, I never type “The End” when I finish a story. I always type “The Beginning” because it is the beginning of the rest of these characters lives.
What else have I done on my time off? Well, I cleaned and did laundry because there’s really no time off from that, but I was also able to watch two movies. I recommend The Thursday Murder Club. Pierce Brosnan is still a hunk and half, even with his white hair. I also watched The Six Triple Eight and admit to getting very ‘verklempt’. I didn’t cry, per se, but my eyes did get all watery and there might have been a tear or two (or twenty) that rolled down my cheek. Good movie, based on a true story. I would recommend that one too, whether you like history or not. The acting was phenomenal!
And that’s about all for me…Stay well! Stay safe! And remember to spread kindness wherever you go!
Marie
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