I hate Ticks...

I’m trying to do better with my posting on both my personal blog and the Wild Hearts blog. But first I have to tell you! OMG! I got bitten by a tick! Yuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I cannot remember how long it’s been since I got bitten by one of those yucky things. I was sitting here and I reached over to scratch my back and felt this bumpy thing. Before I knew what it was I had yanked it out.

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

Once I realized, of course by holding the little creeping bloodsucker in my fingers that it was a tick I was like crap! What do I do with it now? Ugh! So I did what I always do with icky bugs. I flushed him down the toilet. Flushing bugs is always a best resort in my opinion because I figure if they can live in the sewer then more power to them, as long as they don’t come creeping back up into my house.

I love spring time but I hate the bugs and if you live in the Southeastern United States you have to deal with the bugs. At least here in North Carolina I don’t really have to deal too much with roaches. If you live in Charleston, that would not hold true. I guess that every place has their minor irritants but most of them don’t fly at you, and are afraid of you. Here in the South our roaches were brought up on Raid, it’s their adult beverage of choice. The only thing that works efficiently is the bottom of your shoe or final net and a match.

At least I haven’t had to deal with the ants. Oh wait. Let me knock on some wood cause if it starts raining they are sure to come out of hiding.

Book progress is for the birds this week. I did some re-writing and some plotting this week. (Which means I didn’t do what I wanted to do) However I did add another 1032 words to my current young adult. Yay me right? Well, hey the way I’m going by the time my kid graduates college I should be done with the book. LOL. I shouldn’t say that, I haven’t really been working on it that long.

Okay folks. Enough chit chat from me tonight, I’ll check in with all of you later!

Tootles!
I’m out.

P.S. The picture? (He is just cause)

P.S.S. I do really LOVE LOVE LOVE my new blog. Must remind myself to send Ms. Zoot a letter of thank you for making these templates available for free! She is ze bomb diggity!

Tuesday and I missed American Idol again...sigh

You would think that I would remember that it was 'that' time again wouldn't you? But nooooooo, not me. I ended up doing dishes and laundry and then at the last minute realized that I had seriously goofed up and missed the one show that I have enjoyed this season. Well, other than Deadliest Catch on Discovery, doesn't everyone watch that show too?

This means, of course, that I will have to go to the Americal Idol website or You Tube and watch the performances after the fact which really loses something in the doing. Maybe it's because I have to watch it on the computer instead of my T.V. and I miss my daughter screaming "Blake, Blake, I love you Blake." (Shaking my head, even though he is my favorite.) Not that I don't like the other contestants but Blake has got the "IT" factor down pat. Serious Karma going on over in Mr. Lewis' direction, I do declare.

Oh, okay. Let's see what else to update on. I know, the book progress. After a long and thoughtful discussion with myself I believe I've come up with a way to salvage the romance fantasy book. Maybe. I'm not quite sure yet but it has a definite possibility of surviving at least until next week when I take another look at it.

I hit a milestone on TWAB this week. By Friday I should be half way done with the first draft. I feel so productive with this story. I never ever quit working on it these last few months and I'm so glad that I didn't give up on it. It is the first book that I have plotted out by myself and not written by the seat of my pants. It's taken me some serious adjustment to write this way but I think I've saved myself a lot of time in the long run.

So in signing off for today...who is your favorite going into the finals? (for AI anyway) I'm currently reading a Kresley Cole book. If my brain were working correctly I could tell you the title. I'm sure I'll be able to tell you tomorow. Till then have a happy one!
TTFN

Death by Firetruck???

If writing is hard, there are times that life is harder. I found myself thankful this week that I’m even here to talk about it. Yes, the heading is correct and I almost got creamed by a very large, very red fire truck.
But instead of hitting the fire truck I hit the white Chevy pick up truck beside me (to the right)doing a total of over 7,000.00 in damage to my car.
I was lucky to walk away. My daughter was lucky to walk away. It could have been so much worse.

It’s tough to make those kinds of decisions. Either hit a firetruck who is barreling through an intersection where they have a red light and cannot see me due to trucks in a turning lane or knowingly hit the guy beside me. At least the Chevy pick up and I were going in the same direction when we hit the light. The fire truck ended up having to do a sharp left to avoid hitting us.

Tough day.

But I’m thankful. The guy that I hit was very nice. The police officer was very nice, even if he did give me the citation, and the guy who towed my car away was nice.

Me? I had to go home and go to bed. It totally stressed me out on top of everything else that is going on and due to the stress I ended up getting sick.

Argh!

But I’m here and I did write 2000 words this week! Can you believe it? I can’t. But I did it.

But I'm not real keen on Fire trucks right now!

Writing Progress

Rough draft challenge. I did better than I thought I would surprisingly enough. I am switching gears on a couple of things and am playing around with one of the stories and switching it from deep 3rd to first to see which one I like better. This of course takes some careful consideration due to the fact that some of my scenes need to be changed to one pov. (point of view)I’m not sure how I’m going to like it but we’ll see how it turns out in the end. It is only a kind of experiment thing anyway. I may still like the story better in deep 3rd. I have re-affirmed my commitment to finish these two stories if it kills me. I am trying not to over think things, but to plan out what I’m going to write and then I’m just writing it. Badda bing badda boom, until I hit the words THE END. Then the fun stuff starts. Ha ha ha.

So word counts for me are like this:
Fantasy Romance: Total Words this week 4124
Total Words for project: 19310

Young Adult: New words this week: 6025
Total words for project:16265

On another note: I bought several books for fun reading:
Lily’s Ghosts by Laura Ruby***I’m excited to read this because I had an idea to do a middle reader book with ghosts. Glad to see that it was a good idea. LOL.

Atlantis Rising by Alyssa Day: I have to admit that I was pulled in by the cover. Love it and I’m not much of a mermaid type person but this one looks interesting.

Writ on Water by Melanie Jackson that I’m very excited about. I like Melanie’s writing style first of all but I love this cover and I love the back blurb. Here’s what’s on the fron cover.
“They live not to love, those whose names are…Writ on Water”


Doesn’t that just sound divine? I will post and let everyone know how I enjoyed the book. I will also tell all readers and writers here something about me. If for some reason I don’t like something I don’t say anything at all. That is just me, and I’m Southern and it was the way I was raised. “If you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say anything at all.” Just as an fyi for all of you out in Bloggerville.

So here’s hoping to another productive week!
Yay!
Michelle