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In February I released Seven Days of Terror, my first official contribution to the literary world. Although self published, I can (and am proud to say) I am officially a published author. Check one off my bucket list – only 57,000 more to go.
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Merry Christmas to all!
My wife and I have been in a constant battle every year over who can buy the other the most presents on the same amount of money; not an official battle, but this year I won – for the first time. Of course, I only wanted one thing, and that one thing took up just about her entire budget. That allowed me to go hog-wild this year and get the one-up on her. Next year she’ll most likely continue her reign.
We were supposed to get all manner of rain storm on Christmas Eve around midnight, 35 mph winds and 2″ of pouring rain, but we got nothing. I did keep my fingers crossed in hope that Old Man Winter would actually lend me an ear this year and give me my first ever white Christmas, but he didn’t. The temperature didn’t plummet – didn’t even get near freezing although it’s been in the twenties every morning the past two weeks – so therefore no white lawn. I think I’m going to have to move to one of the Northern states to experience that. Not the Northeast though, I’m thinking Northwest – like Montana.
Well, that being said, I hope everyone out there had a wonderful Christmas!
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Fiction Friday #134
“There, that should just about do it” he whispered under his breath as he worked placing the last piece of fresh cut sod on Martha Tinney’s grave. She had died a miserable old woman: no children of her own, widowed thirty years, and living off of Social Security tending to twenty-seven cats. Giving the earth a final pat down, he looked up at the headstone
Martha Tinney
1923 – 2007
Old bitch, ain’t ya?
“Evenin’, Joe!”
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Fiction Friday #133
You can blame Benjamin Solah for this one.
I visited his blog today – as I do every day – and discovered this cool little thing called Fiction Friday. Curiosity getting the best of me as it always does, I decided to give it a try. Enjoy!
“This calls for blood! The Lord calls for sacrifice!” the old, deranged preacher yelled from his makeshift pulpit. “Johnny Rengle’s death …”
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6/23/08 Haiku Spree #13
candle flames flicker
when a gentle breeze blows past
causing them to dance
Originally posted 2008-06-23 21:02:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Newnan Market Days
Yesterday found me and Denise down in Newnan, Georgia braving ice cold winds and threatening rain. What on earth could possibly convince us to drive an hour and a half away from the comforts of our humble abode on a perfectly good Saturday morning? My good blogosphere friend, Clay Perry, was attending Newnan Market Days and seeing as it was the last one of this year and the fact he’s invited me down so many times – funny how our schedules conflict so badly – I decided I’d better go. Add to that the fact that he set me up with the owner of Scott’s Bookstore on the square, it was a day I just couldn’t pass up. More on that in a minute. Clay calls his little event Crickhollow on the Square – pretty neat if you ask me – after his little wood carving hobby (hobby for lack of a better name), aptly named Crickhollow Studios. He is pretty talented and I like his work. His walking sticks are absolutely wonderful and I’m kicking myself for not buying one. Oh well, there’s always spring time. Perhaps another barter will be in order (traded one of his wood spirit ornaments for one of my books)?
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Does anyone make a pill for writer’s block?
I opened Piratas last night and began working again, only to find that after a day full of inspiration and a notebook filled with more plot points to plug in, my writer’s block hadn’t fully subsided. The first chapter of the story is completely done and I’m well into the second. Keep in mind though, that there are only five; six if you include the epilogue. I ended up writing the Epilogue – made it short and sweet, less than a page – and formatting my pages with headers and footers with my name, the title, and the page numbers.
OpenOffice gave me trouble on Seven Days of Terror with the formatting so I’m curious to see what’s going to happen with this one. At least with this one I’m starting with a whole new document and haven’t gotten too far into it to confuse it (I hope!). I just hope I can get it figured out because I love OpenOffice and don’t want to have to go look at other options, which I may end up having to do anyway. I forced my wife to use it on the new computer I built her last year. She keeps track of certain things with spreadsheets and there have been a few occasions where large chunks of data get lost when she saves and exits. Looks like it might be back to the much-despised Microsoft Office for us, but we’re toughing it out as long as we can.
Anyway, when I started last night I was at an estimated 8,120 words. I ended up at 8,356. I know it doesn’t seem like much, but I was only working for about forty minutes and ten of that was spent trying to remember how to format the pages (It’s only my second time – give me a break!). Thirty minutes to write 236 words isn’t really that bad. I know people who spend a whole day and only average as many.
Piratas has officially graduated from 16% to the 17% mark; rounded to the nearest whole, of course!
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