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I'm a traditionally and self published author. I write in the genre of children and YA at the moment but working my way up to adults. I'm a sports loving, photo taking gal who loves to sing/dance to my own enjoyment. I love to laugh even at myself. I am also owned by 8 birds and 2 hamsters, and yes they know it. :)
Authors Showcase, Gathering of writers

Local Authors Showcase: Showing your ware

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In my county there are a few times during the year that they hold what they call Author Showcases. It is designed for authors in the area to meet for the public to interact with. Sometimes they are successful while others not so much. I been doing these for a few years now and while inside I am full of butterflies once it starts it is just a lot of fun. The last one we had the show was moved to a Sunday afternoon. To help it be more successful we had a thunderstorm along with lightning and thunder to accompany us.

Upon arriving the crew that showed up only filled up a bit of the room. What I liked however was how I knew about 80 percent of the authors there. So while the day was not very successful I was able to hang out with authors and friends at the same time. Plus I made some new friends to boot. This is always a win for me.

What was funny was how my friend Joanna who was a table next to me said how every time she turned around to talk there was something sitting down talking to me. For an introvert such as myself I had to chuckle. Maybe I should have done like Lucy and charge 5 cents for each visitor. 🙂 Another plus was how authors gave me free books with no strings attached. I will definitely read and review as my way of saying thank you, even though they didn’t ask me for anything.

All and all the three house went by super fast. In a few months we will be doing another one and the venue will be bigger so I won’t get a chance like this one to mingle and talk to the other people. In a way I am glad it happened the way it did. I made new contacts, saw different and unique ways to set up one’s table and learned about options to expand my brand. The outcome was just as fun.

Driving cars, Safe driving, Uncategorized

Driving: A dangerous sport

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When my son first started to drive I would tell him, “Be careful.” He would get mad until I told him that what I meant was a/ be careful for yourself and b/ be careful of all the other drivers around you. Drivers are crazy these days and it seems to get worse on a daily basis. I am at my happiest when there is no one around me. Let me explain why, but perhaps I don’t need to?

I been in two car accidents. The first one I was in the back of a carpool car, my son next to me my husband in front and the driver . We were on the way to NC to go to work, it was snowing and we were going below the speed limit. The company truck behind us was going faster than the speed limit, drunk and thought it be okay to bump us into the Dismal Swamp. He crushed the trunk so bad it came to t he seat I was sitting. Thankfully my son was okay.

My second car accident I again was behind the passenger side and we were stopped to turn left, we waited since there was a car in front of us. Again a company vehicle going to fast hit us and total the car that hit him since he had stopped.

We have people putting on no blinkers for miles and then suddenly turn leaving the people behind to jam on their rakes and hope no one hits them. Yo have people who put on their blinkers for miles and miles making them go slow in case they do the former. You have people rolling through a stop sign not stopping fulling , you have people going through yield signs like it means go faster. When a stoplight turns green you best count to five for some fool will be bound to go through a red light or a stop sign.

You see people texting as they drive, eat, seen a man shave, put on makeup and a bunch of other things that has no place in a vehicle. You see people riding so close behind you, you can see the color of their eyes in the mirror.

There are so many other examples of erratic driving. Cars are dangerous machines and if not used properly can harm and in some cases kill people. I have not even brought up road rage. It is dangerous out there.

So as I tell my son I tell you all please be careful for yourself and others. Again I am at my happiest when I am driving alone on the road. It really is a wonderful thing.

Finding ideas to write about, what's the topic?

How many ideas do you have to write about?

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Do you ever take a break from writing or is it with you constantly? I ask for one simple reason. My friend Adrianne said that I am always looking at objects, people and so on for possible story ideas. The funny thing is I had not noticed I did that until she brought it up. I so do this.

One member of one of my writing group made this statement. “I only have this idea the book I am working on.” That floored me and honestly the whole group. I personally have a few notebooks with pages and pages of ideas, summaries or plot scenes for potential novels. If I stopped adding ideas to this book and finished each one I would have to live another 100-200 years. And yet I add more ideas. It’s insane that I do this.

With me being a photographer as well I am always looking for “the shot” to capture so between these two fields it’ not surprising that my brain goes into this mode.

Is this something you do? Or do you work on one project, finish it and move on to another? Do you work on more than one project at a time? I know I do. Do you have ideas for multiple genres or primarily the one you work in? It keeps the mind active and ongoing which helps as we get older.

Maybe I need to write one of those prompt books that we see and use my ideas for that. Maybe someone could work on the idea further then I have. Nay. I just need to live for a very long time. 🙂