The last four days I have watched about ten movies. I sort of lost count, and I even stopped watching two other ones after ten or so minutes, and there was one that I wish I had turned off after ten minutes. My husband is away for two weeks, so I thought I would watch all the chick flicks, dramas and anything in between that he wouldn't be interested in while he was gone. His favorite movies are Tombstone and Sparticus. Cowboys and gladiators--I guess you can say they technically are period dramas, but not my kind, although Val Kilmer was fabulous as Doc Holiday. :0)
So in the line up tonight was Julie and Julia. I had a friend from work tell me that I really needed to see it, so I did. And I felt a little exposed. Both Julie and Julia were at pivotal life stages and each feeling a little useless and lost. They threw themselves into something they had a passion for and after a lot of struggle and pain, their dreams were realized.
It was a sweet movie, but it left me with an ache in my stomach and also left me feeling a little guilty, so I'm letting you all in on a secret. I've told no one. Until now.
I heard back from a publisher a couple of weeks ago--maybe even three weeks now. The publishers who do Pride and Prejudice fanfic. The one I was grooming my book for. I was so excited to hear back from them that I read the email first thing when I got to work. NOT a good idea.
The editor told me that my writing was "weak" along with a few other things--she absolutely hated the title. I actually felt sick to my stomach and did my best not to cry for five whole hours while at work. I somehow got through my day. I was so embarrassed and devastated that I didn't even want to tell my husband. Isn't that pitiful? He immediately knew that something was wrong. I did my best to act like everything was normal, but that darn man knows me so well. I couldn't get the words out without crying and I felt like there was a massive "L" burned into my forehead (Loser). I couldn't get the words out. After he made sure that it wasn't life threatening and that it wasn't something he had done, he told me that he would wait until I was ready to tell him.
How many movies or novels for that matter deal with this exact issue--someone in authority or with expertise squashing someone's dreams? I should have a thick skin and I should keep plugging away until someone believes in me. Or I should go back and look at what I have written and figure out how to make it better. That would be what a true heroine would do. But I'm a sensitive writer with paper thin skin, who was so pumped up and admittedly high by the literally hundreds and hundreds of reviews from everyday people who said they loved my book and wanted to read it over and over again. I just wasn't prepared for anything else. The disillusioned heroine stumbles.
I haven't looked at my book or written a word on my new one since. My real life plot is so frustratingly predictable--our heroine licks her wounds and needs to somehow believe in herself again. I'm actually embarrassed to admit that one little email did that to me. So completely infantile. Meanwhile, I keep getting reviews from complete strangers telling me that this was the best P&P fanfic they have ever read, and I don't know what to do with the information. Part of me wants to forward each and every one of them to the publisher and the other half of me wants to yell at them to stop sending me raving reviews because it just doesn't matter.
So tonight Julie and Julia each kicked my butt a little. Julia Child worked years and years on her cookbook before she found someone willing to publish it. And she kept cooking the whole time. And little Julie cooked her little heart out every night after work while blogging about it for an entire year, encountering great disappointment, kitchen disasters and even marital troubles. I've only been at this for a few months. My kitchen and marriage is still intact. I have nothing to complain about.
I thought about the one thing that got people's dander up with my book--the fact that I let Elizabeth question herself and lose some confidence after she got kicked out of Kent. I had a few people really let me know how out of character that was for our dear Lizzy. But I heartily disagreed and now I think that I will cut myself the same slack and have the same patience with myself. I just needed a little time.
All this to say, I promise to get back to my newest book this week. I will tell my husband what happened when he calls tomorrow night, and I will not yell at the reviews as they still trickle in, but I will also try to figure out just what was weak about my work. I will also email the agent that I had contact with (who was going to poke around and see if she could find anyone interested) and see if she is still interested.
Thank you Julie and Julia for plugging away, for doing what you love with all your heart and for my little butt kicking. And thank you Jane for not giving up on getting your work published two-hundred years ago when it literally was a man's world. I'm in awe of you, your wit and your elegant way of making us fall in love with your characters over and over again. I hope you all will forgive me for stumbling.
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Sunday, June 6, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
It's a small world after all...
So I've been at my new job for a little over three weeks. Last Friday, I had a woman from our editing department come up to me very excited. She asked me if I had written a JAFF book called Speak Not Against the Sun. I lifted my eyebrow and said that I had. She broke into a huge grin as she told me that she read my story on one of the fan sites before she ever knew me. I couldn't believe it!
It was such a rush, and a coincidence. My follow up book, Forgive Me, Jane, actually is about a woman who writes a JAFF book and gets to know her fans at a Jane Austen convention. I felt like I was living it.
You all need to cross your fingers for me since my story is in the reading queue at one publishers, and I'm emailing an agent back and forth. She read my first three chapters of both my books and without saying that she would represent me, she told me she would poke around this week and see if she could find anyone that was interested in a "Sweet Romance." She said that romances without sex are harder to sell. We will see...
So things are well enough in my little small world, at least lots is happening. And now I have that song stuck in my head, but in a good way.
It was such a rush, and a coincidence. My follow up book, Forgive Me, Jane, actually is about a woman who writes a JAFF book and gets to know her fans at a Jane Austen convention. I felt like I was living it.
You all need to cross your fingers for me since my story is in the reading queue at one publishers, and I'm emailing an agent back and forth. She read my first three chapters of both my books and without saying that she would represent me, she told me she would poke around this week and see if she could find anyone that was interested in a "Sweet Romance." She said that romances without sex are harder to sell. We will see...
So things are well enough in my little small world, at least lots is happening. And now I have that song stuck in my head, but in a good way.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Is Edward Cullen a modern Mr. Darcy?
Do I dare compare Pride and Prejudice with the Twilight sagas? A most beloved classic and a pop culture phenomenon? I can almost hear the intake of breath from Austen devotees. :) I know they are two very different things, but how different are they really? I don't mean to get any feathers ruffled, but the more I dive into Darcy's character, the more parallels I see to a new literary heartthrob (not the actor heart throb), Edward Cullen. If we can separate Colin Firth and Matthew MacFadyen from the literary Mr. Darcy, then we can pull Robert Pattinson, "purdy" as he may be, away from Edward Cullen and examine the men from the books.
Let's really look at the two and try to get past the whole fantasy vampire genre. Darcy and Edward are both good decent men (slash vampire.) They are both very reluctantly drawn to a strong young woman that they meet by chance with lots of other people around. Each are surprised by their unexplained attraction and initially treat the objects of their desire quite horribly, in hopes that Lizzy and Bella will stay away from them. Darcy and Edward are uber-rich, brooding, intelligent, and have lost their parents. They both dress impeccably and are from completely different worlds than the ones Lizzy and Bella come from.
Even though both books are about our heroines, their love interests interest us all for the same reason. We just love tortured men! If there was a contest, Edward would win hands down for most tortured with the whole "I'm a vampire and had no choice in becoming one", and spends his waking hours (which are all of them) quelling an unrelenting thirst for human blood. He knows that he should stay miles and miles away from Bella because he's afraid that his darker instincts might overpower him if he gets too close to her. But Darcy in his own tortured way was all alone in the world and doesn't know how badly he needs Elizabeth until she flatly rejects him in Hunsford. We don't get to see him beyond when he and Elizabeth are in the same room, but we get the idea that he spends the majority of his time trying not to think about her, yet inventing ways in his mind to be near her. And there is nothing sexier than a man torn to bits over a woman he can't or shouldn't have.
When Darcy first met Elizabeth, he flatly refused to dance with her and called her "tolerable, yet not handsome enough to temp him" within her earshot. Ouch! But we all know that it was only a knee-jerk reaction to his instant attraction to her. Edward saw Bella from across the cafeteria and couldn't read her thoughts. That was intriguing, but when he got a whiff of her in Biology class, he literally had to lean away and not take a breath for fifty minutes. Poor Bella even sniffs her own hair to make sure she isn't the one offending. Like Lizzy, Bella was absolutely mystified why and how he could be so suddenly repulsed by her. Each lady was left with bitter memories and did not look kindly on the man who acted repulsed.
Interestingly enough, while fighting his attraction, Darcy still asked Lizzy to dance at the Lucas gathering and again while Lizzy was staying at Netherfield. Which shows us that there was a real war going on in his head. He then decided that he would not speak to her if he could help it, after he realized where his heart was heading. Austen writes a scene where the two are in the same room alone for quite some time without saying a word to each other, but we all know that their thoughts were full of each other.
Struggling with his attraction, Edward couldn't help but save Bella when he saw a car skidding straight for her. But after the hospital, when he fully realized what danger they all were in from his attraction, he did not say a word to her for six weeks, though they sat next to each other in Biology class each day. Bella narrates the book, and every once in a while she thinks she sees Edward's head slightly incline her way when she is talking to someone else, but she can't be sure. Well played, Stephenie Meyer. I was on edge for those six weeks!
There is just something about being in on how tortured each man is--longing for and wanting the girl, but holding back. And that is one thing that I tried to do in my book--let everyone in on Darcy's struggle. I longed to know what he was thinking in P&P, and this was my interpretation--he could not get her out of his head. I even touch on Colonel Fitzwilliam's struggle. He gives up Lizzy because he knew in the end, it was for the best.
And there is most likely a longing in all of us to be the object of such love. Maybe the extra handsome produce manager looks forward to your weekly shopping trips, and switches his hours with someone knowing that you come at 5:30 every Wednesday evening. Maybe he thinks you are too good for him with your Jimmy Choo shoes and your Lexus parked outside, so he barely says anything to you, but he thinks about you all the time while he works his way through graduate school. And even though you are attracted to him, you think he is a huge snob because he smiles and heartily greets everyone but you. Heavy sigh.
It's highly intoxicating, and that is why there have been two centuries of women in love with Mr. Darcy, and now droves of youngsters and cougars alike who can't get enough of Edward Cullen. It's a delicious formula that works and has held up for over two hundred years.
I did it. I just compared Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy to a sparkling vampire. If Jane will forgive me for writing a fanfic with her dearest characters, then maybe, just maybe she can forgive me for this...
Let's really look at the two and try to get past the whole fantasy vampire genre. Darcy and Edward are both good decent men (slash vampire.) They are both very reluctantly drawn to a strong young woman that they meet by chance with lots of other people around. Each are surprised by their unexplained attraction and initially treat the objects of their desire quite horribly, in hopes that Lizzy and Bella will stay away from them. Darcy and Edward are uber-rich, brooding, intelligent, and have lost their parents. They both dress impeccably and are from completely different worlds than the ones Lizzy and Bella come from.
Even though both books are about our heroines, their love interests interest us all for the same reason. We just love tortured men! If there was a contest, Edward would win hands down for most tortured with the whole "I'm a vampire and had no choice in becoming one", and spends his waking hours (which are all of them) quelling an unrelenting thirst for human blood. He knows that he should stay miles and miles away from Bella because he's afraid that his darker instincts might overpower him if he gets too close to her. But Darcy in his own tortured way was all alone in the world and doesn't know how badly he needs Elizabeth until she flatly rejects him in Hunsford. We don't get to see him beyond when he and Elizabeth are in the same room, but we get the idea that he spends the majority of his time trying not to think about her, yet inventing ways in his mind to be near her. And there is nothing sexier than a man torn to bits over a woman he can't or shouldn't have.
When Darcy first met Elizabeth, he flatly refused to dance with her and called her "tolerable, yet not handsome enough to temp him" within her earshot. Ouch! But we all know that it was only a knee-jerk reaction to his instant attraction to her. Edward saw Bella from across the cafeteria and couldn't read her thoughts. That was intriguing, but when he got a whiff of her in Biology class, he literally had to lean away and not take a breath for fifty minutes. Poor Bella even sniffs her own hair to make sure she isn't the one offending. Like Lizzy, Bella was absolutely mystified why and how he could be so suddenly repulsed by her. Each lady was left with bitter memories and did not look kindly on the man who acted repulsed.
Interestingly enough, while fighting his attraction, Darcy still asked Lizzy to dance at the Lucas gathering and again while Lizzy was staying at Netherfield. Which shows us that there was a real war going on in his head. He then decided that he would not speak to her if he could help it, after he realized where his heart was heading. Austen writes a scene where the two are in the same room alone for quite some time without saying a word to each other, but we all know that their thoughts were full of each other.
Struggling with his attraction, Edward couldn't help but save Bella when he saw a car skidding straight for her. But after the hospital, when he fully realized what danger they all were in from his attraction, he did not say a word to her for six weeks, though they sat next to each other in Biology class each day. Bella narrates the book, and every once in a while she thinks she sees Edward's head slightly incline her way when she is talking to someone else, but she can't be sure. Well played, Stephenie Meyer. I was on edge for those six weeks!
There is just something about being in on how tortured each man is--longing for and wanting the girl, but holding back. And that is one thing that I tried to do in my book--let everyone in on Darcy's struggle. I longed to know what he was thinking in P&P, and this was my interpretation--he could not get her out of his head. I even touch on Colonel Fitzwilliam's struggle. He gives up Lizzy because he knew in the end, it was for the best.
And there is most likely a longing in all of us to be the object of such love. Maybe the extra handsome produce manager looks forward to your weekly shopping trips, and switches his hours with someone knowing that you come at 5:30 every Wednesday evening. Maybe he thinks you are too good for him with your Jimmy Choo shoes and your Lexus parked outside, so he barely says anything to you, but he thinks about you all the time while he works his way through graduate school. And even though you are attracted to him, you think he is a huge snob because he smiles and heartily greets everyone but you. Heavy sigh.
It's highly intoxicating, and that is why there have been two centuries of women in love with Mr. Darcy, and now droves of youngsters and cougars alike who can't get enough of Edward Cullen. It's a delicious formula that works and has held up for over two hundred years.
I did it. I just compared Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy to a sparkling vampire. If Jane will forgive me for writing a fanfic with her dearest characters, then maybe, just maybe she can forgive me for this...
Monday, April 19, 2010
Amended Chapter 7
I've added to Chapter 7. Jane and Bingley on their honeymoon. A few sweet scenes, and the mystery of Bingley having to take off suddenly (to snip a queue.) Enjoy!
The new job is great so far...
The new job is great so far...
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Prologue
Coming soon: Extended Chapter 5 with more D&E&C.F love triangle. Still working on it...
Saturday, April 3, 2010
This is it...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
So the spoiling continues...
Thirteen is up, ladies. Can I just take a second and tell you how much I love my thesaurus. I adore my thesaurus. I have a penchant for my thesaurus. I delight in my thesaurus. I am devoted to my thesaurus. I am completely besotted with my thesaurus!
It's almost Friday, and I did some more editing on 13 for the JAFF sites, and changed the ending a bit, so I reposted the revised chapter here, if you are interested...
It's almost Friday, and I did some more editing on 13 for the JAFF sites, and changed the ending a bit, so I reposted the revised chapter here, if you are interested...
Monday, March 29, 2010
I'm so happy right now!
All I have to say is "Mademoiselle Adele and Mr. Darcy in the same room!" I am cracking myself up!! I'm writing London scenes with Darcy while Lizzy is at Pemberley, and guess where Darcy has to go to pick up something for his dear little Georgiana! It's just killing me. Darcy might need a little magic, too.
This might be an entire chapter tucked in right before Chapter 12. We all need more of Darcy and I think I'm on to something...
Just thought I'd share my joy. I'll tell you when it's good and fat enough to post.
Thank you all again for all the extremely helpful suggestions. There are many I want to explore--including delving in further into the almost Darcy, Lizzy Colonel Fitzwilliam love triangle when she first arrived in London. I want to be gentle on Richard, since I have an admitted crush on him, but I do think we should find out just how Richard came to the realization that he should give up any thoughts of her and decide to help Darcy...
Okay, back to writing!
This might be an entire chapter tucked in right before Chapter 12. We all need more of Darcy and I think I'm on to something...
Just thought I'd share my joy. I'll tell you when it's good and fat enough to post.
Thank you all again for all the extremely helpful suggestions. There are many I want to explore--including delving in further into the almost Darcy, Lizzy Colonel Fitzwilliam love triangle when she first arrived in London. I want to be gentle on Richard, since I have an admitted crush on him, but I do think we should find out just how Richard came to the realization that he should give up any thoughts of her and decide to help Darcy...
Okay, back to writing!
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
I'm waay ahead of you...
We've got a nasty flu going through our house, and since I'm feeling a little strange myself, I thought I'd get this up while I can. This is my favorite chapter since Mademoiselle Adele was introduced. Lots of fun and an absolute heart pounding last scene. Yay me!
Let me know what you think...
Oh! Thanks for all of your ideas on stretching out my book. I'm actually glad, because you can stick around after I've posted my last chapters on the JAFF sites, to see what else I'm adding and give me feedback. I really appreciate everything! :0)
Let me know what you think...
Oh! Thanks for all of your ideas on stretching out my book. I'm actually glad, because you can stick around after I've posted my last chapters on the JAFF sites, to see what else I'm adding and give me feedback. I really appreciate everything! :0)
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
I need 17,000 more words!
Okay, I am looking in to querying some publishers who do JAFF. The minimum requirement is 90,000 words. I'm at 73,000 right now with my full 14 chapters. That is roughly two more chapters that I need to write! There is no way I can contrive to keep D&E apart much longer, and I don't want to.
Since my background is script writing, I am not used to this much leeway. For feature length scripts I usually have only 120 pages that are not even full WORD pages--all the dialog has set margins only a few inches across, and is centered with the character's names above them each time they speak. Seriously, I would say that it would be about 60-80 full WORD doc pages--that's it. So, I've learned how to be very brief, but to make my words tight and powerful--full of meaning and subtext while propelling the story forward. Needless to say, I'm a little lost with all of this white space.
What I need is ideas for more "stuff" in between the beginning and Lizzy's trip to Pemberley. But it has to be relevant to the story and it has to propel it forward, it cannot simply be a distraction. There has to be information in it for us or the characters.
Here are some things off the top of my head, but I really would like to hear from my ladies. Tell me what you would like to have fleshed out even more.
* Jane and Bingley's relationship--maybe his disappearance in Bath
* More Wickham interaction previous to the encounter
* Should I spend more time in London with the Gardiners--the 1st time
* Should I have a Caroline subplot/story?
* Should I follow Darcy on his "business" trip while Lizzy is at Pemberley?
Ooh, I think I probably could do an entire chapter on the Darcy thing. Because he is up to something, but I don't reveal it until later. Maybe we can know, but Lizzy will be in the dark. Hmmmm.
Give up your ideas my dears--please! :0)
Since my background is script writing, I am not used to this much leeway. For feature length scripts I usually have only 120 pages that are not even full WORD pages--all the dialog has set margins only a few inches across, and is centered with the character's names above them each time they speak. Seriously, I would say that it would be about 60-80 full WORD doc pages--that's it. So, I've learned how to be very brief, but to make my words tight and powerful--full of meaning and subtext while propelling the story forward. Needless to say, I'm a little lost with all of this white space.
What I need is ideas for more "stuff" in between the beginning and Lizzy's trip to Pemberley. But it has to be relevant to the story and it has to propel it forward, it cannot simply be a distraction. There has to be information in it for us or the characters.
Here are some things off the top of my head, but I really would like to hear from my ladies. Tell me what you would like to have fleshed out even more.
* Jane and Bingley's relationship--maybe his disappearance in Bath
* More Wickham interaction previous to the encounter
* Should I spend more time in London with the Gardiners--the 1st time
* Should I have a Caroline subplot/story?
* Should I follow Darcy on his "business" trip while Lizzy is at Pemberley?
Ooh, I think I probably could do an entire chapter on the Darcy thing. Because he is up to something, but I don't reveal it until later. Maybe we can know, but Lizzy will be in the dark. Hmmmm.
Give up your ideas my dears--please! :0)
Friday, March 19, 2010
What a big liar I am!
You broke me. You sighed, you whimpered, and you apparently twitched. Here is Chapter 11 two days early...
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Good news and bad news...
Hello all!
Chapter 10 is up. Yay! That is the good news. The bad news is that I am catching up to myself. I cannot post two chapters a week anymore without letting things slip. I only have three more chapters to go and I have to make sure I'm wrapping everything up tightly. I technically have finished, but am going back and adding, editing, and filling out everything. I have a little more research to do as well to make sure I get some details right.
All that to say that I will not publish Chapter 11 until next Sunday. I will miss all of you, and plan to keep you with me for another 3 weeks. :0)
Enjoy this chapter...
Chapter 10 is up. Yay! That is the good news. The bad news is that I am catching up to myself. I cannot post two chapters a week anymore without letting things slip. I only have three more chapters to go and I have to make sure I'm wrapping everything up tightly. I technically have finished, but am going back and adding, editing, and filling out everything. I have a little more research to do as well to make sure I get some details right.
All that to say that I will not publish Chapter 11 until next Sunday. I will miss all of you, and plan to keep you with me for another 3 weeks. :0)
Enjoy this chapter...
Friday, March 12, 2010
A new title??
So, I have never been married the title, "Speak Not Against the Sun." I slapped it on so I could put it up on the JAFF sites. It seemed clever enough, but it is a mouthful. It's tied to a wonderful thread throughout my story arc, but I'm not convinced that this is what I will name my baby.
I had been toying with a joke title, which made me laugh, but the more I thought about it, the more appropriate it sounded. And it would stop a Janeite in her tracks, if she saw it in a bookstore. "The Practice of Elegant Females." Very marketable, but still not speaking to my soul.
And then, two days ago, it hit me while I was editing Chapter 9. "A Rush of Blackbirds." It's what started the entire story, and it is referred to several times thereafter. I can't stop thinking about it.
Elizabeth ran through the rain. She was dressed in her deep green gown, her hair wet and loose down her back. A dark figure in a red coat was waiting in the shadows of the wood. He smiled handsomely, and bid her to come. Elizabeth stopped in horror, and wanted to change her course, but something down the muddy path caught her eye. Mr. Darcy was sitting against the oak, holding her handkerchief, but he did not see her. He saw nothing, for scarlet was pouring from his head, and his body was twisted and broken. A rush of blackbirds startled her awake. She was in London.
Le sigh... It just sounds so dang romantic to me. Is it just me? What do you think, Miss Austen?
I had been toying with a joke title, which made me laugh, but the more I thought about it, the more appropriate it sounded. And it would stop a Janeite in her tracks, if she saw it in a bookstore. "The Practice of Elegant Females." Very marketable, but still not speaking to my soul.
And then, two days ago, it hit me while I was editing Chapter 9. "A Rush of Blackbirds." It's what started the entire story, and it is referred to several times thereafter. I can't stop thinking about it.
Elizabeth ran through the rain. She was dressed in her deep green gown, her hair wet and loose down her back. A dark figure in a red coat was waiting in the shadows of the wood. He smiled handsomely, and bid her to come. Elizabeth stopped in horror, and wanted to change her course, but something down the muddy path caught her eye. Mr. Darcy was sitting against the oak, holding her handkerchief, but he did not see her. He saw nothing, for scarlet was pouring from his head, and his body was twisted and broken. A rush of blackbirds startled her awake. She was in London.
Le sigh... It just sounds so dang romantic to me. Is it just me? What do you think, Miss Austen?
Thursday, March 11, 2010
I'm certain to make people angry now...
All I can say, is that I'm promising a very happy ending. It's way too soon to end my book now, and if you want to kill a book, a movie, or a TV show--get the two, who have created sexual tension for months on end, if not years, together. No one is interested past that. The reader/viewer experienced their happy ending, and don't care about the wedding plans, mean relatives, or if he puts the toilet seat down or not. I have seen it over and over again. It is a well known fact in Hollywood that you have to do anything you can to keep the love birds apart, unless there is an ensemble cast, and this was not the only story going on.
So, since this is the only story going on, more angst is on the way. Deal with it people (she says with deep affection...) :0) Enjoy the roller coaster ride. Grab the safety bar, and hold on tight. We can fix our hair when it's all over.
I hope that you enjoy Chapter 9. Thanks for sticking with me this far...
So, since this is the only story going on, more angst is on the way. Deal with it people (she says with deep affection...) :0) Enjoy the roller coaster ride. Grab the safety bar, and hold on tight. We can fix our hair when it's all over.
I hope that you enjoy Chapter 9. Thanks for sticking with me this far...
Sunday, March 7, 2010
I must be getting old...
Sorry readers,
I had a little lapse, and forgot to post Chapter 8 earlier! I was up at 4:30 this morning to sing at church and then came home, ate, and crashed. I've been almost useless since. Hope you enjoy this chapter. Charlotte makes me smile.
I had a little lapse, and forgot to post Chapter 8 earlier! I was up at 4:30 this morning to sing at church and then came home, ate, and crashed. I've been almost useless since. Hope you enjoy this chapter. Charlotte makes me smile.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Chapter Seven is up...
I'm rewarding all of you who have come to my blog, by posting my newest chapter here, a day before I post on the three JAFF sites.
Let me also share that I am in the home stretch. I finally have a clear vision on just how this is going to end, and am very exited, and pretty certain that I will finish the book this month. Knock on wood, or MacBook, whatever is closest....
So enjoy, and let me know what you think.
Let me also share that I am in the home stretch. I finally have a clear vision on just how this is going to end, and am very exited, and pretty certain that I will finish the book this month. Knock on wood, or MacBook, whatever is closest....
So enjoy, and let me know what you think.
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