Rushing Spring

If you put up springy backgrounds, spring will come faster. I'm about ready to get a countdown widget, anything. Not that I heart spring so much, actually it comes with hazards, you know, tornadoes ans thunderstorms, and it's just a violent time of year, but then summer comes pretty fast after that. I'm really looking forward to my next birthday and that's in September. I think I'm going to throw a blog bash. I have a secret, it's a wonderful secret and you can't know what it is, yet.

I just finished Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson. It's insanely good. It's a YA book about a teenage boy, tyler, who is in trouble. Just like most teens, he's trying to fit in. It starts off with him on probation for spray painting graffiti on the school. He figured he'd be considered a hero for this. So now he's doing community service by taring the school roof and digging holes for a landscaping business in between visits to his parole officer.

He's got the hots for a girl out of his league. She just happens to be the daughter of Tyler's father's boss and her brother has been bullying Tyler all through school. But due to all the strenuous labor Tyler has been forced to do, he's bulked up.

The girl becomes interested in Tyler and they go to a big party. She gets waisted and tries to seduce Tyler who decides to do the proper thing and not take advantage of her. She blows him off and disappears for a long time. Tyler drives her and her brother home because they are too drunk to walk.

Long story short, Tyler gets in trouble for taking pictures of her in various stages of dress.

Tyler has issues with his father as well, but I'll leave the rest for you guys to find out.
I came away wishing I could write a book like that and determined to do so, just as soon as I figure out how, exactly.

Habits

They say, "They," those much smarter than me. They say that if you repeat something three times, it becomes a habit. Maybe it's 3 weeks, anyway, I realize now, that my ROW80 goal should have been to blog more, like every day. Maybe no one reads it, that's okay, there's a habit to be made here, and I want to illuminate you with my vast knowledge. By-the-way, you guys are great. You cheer me when I'm down, share your ample supply of knowledge, and you're just all around good peeps. I thank you for that.

Okay, so I'm going to try, for three days in a row, to blog something. It might be a paragraph on the proper way to brush you teeth while balancing a notebook on your lap and putting your makeup on-- simultaneously. Or the woes of a novelist just trying to get from Monday to Friday with dignity and, more importantly, sanity.

I am meeting my ROW80 goals, but not in the way I had visualized. I'm more just working on my novels than writing them, but it's still progress.

You all have fun and stay good.

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ROW80 Goals - It works

For someone who doesn't make goals, I'm finding they work. The ROW80 challenge is easy. Just thirty minutes a day and I've got 500 words on paper. Do you know how many works that's going to be at the end of 80 days? Don't calculate, let me tell you--80,000 words. So, though thirty minutes sounds like a small goal, it's huge. I see a new goal in my future--psst . . . maybe I'll raise it to forty-five

Getting closer to publishing. It seems like there's always a delay. If anyone thinks publishing a book is easy, they're wrong. Even after you've closed the file for the final time, after all the proofing and editing, and falderal, as my mother used to say, there is other stuff. Like understanding the terms of royalties. I don't have a head for business, mostly because I don't do numbers. No comprehend. So I have to rely on someone else to do the research. That's where I am now. Waiting for the research. Everything is almost ready, just write my blurb and submit my book.

I'm excited and scared. What's the worse that can happen? No one reading my book, unconscionable. Everyone hating my book, unconscionable. I'm being silly.
It's my first book, I've got two in the works.

It's also hard to stop visiting my characters. Characters are people, you know. I miss them, I liked them and put them through terrible ordeals. But they only live within the confounds of the front and back covers.

I've ramble enough. I like to keep my posts short for my ADD friends out there. Take care, see you next time, and God bless.