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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. 🙂

A title for your book, Naming your book

Your book is done: Do you have a title for it?

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Earlier this year I posted about how I didn’t have the title for a certain WIP of mine. How I wondered how writers come up with their titles and so on. Well now the time is really upon me. My editor just handed me the last edits for my manuscript which is the third installation for my Jasper series. At this point there is still no title for it and to be honest I have not given it much thought. While people get stressed over this I am more wanting to get the story out from my brain and onto the paper. But now it is time to come up with the name for it. I guess it is now my turn to stress.

I been thinking of having a contest with this in mind. Though how someone can title a manuscript that they haven’t read could be interesting. I could give a short synopsis of the book and people can draw from that. I hadn’t expected this series to well turn into a series. And at the moment I have ideas for a fourth and fifth. May this help me to find titles for them or if nothing else not take so long to title it.

I have to date never done a contest when it has come to my writing. There are so many options out there. You can do one on your social platform which I have seen on Facebook, Twitter and Goodreads just to name a few. Whoever comes up with the title I choose could either win a free book from the list of books I have written or I can write them in an upcoming book. What do you all think? Could this work? Or do I need to buckle down and figure this out on my own?


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