Too slow and too hot

Hey those of you that read this, sorry for not writing for a while.  It has been too hot, and I'm too slow on the uptake.  Forgot and forget and actually don't have much to write about anyway.  Not doing much of anything except writing my police mystery that has to be finished by Sept 24 and ready to send to traditional publisher by Christmas.  YeeHaa.  Wish me luck. I've tried traditional publishers before but they don't want what I write.  This time though I will have something they are looking for.  Maybe with the help of a friend who I am editing and passing on suggestions with this one is exactly what they want.  I am going to be paid for my work I'm not paying the publisher to help me self publish.  Don't have the knowledge to self promote, wish I did.  Okay no promise as to when I will be back but I do promise to be here at least once a week unless I go back to the alphabet then I can maybe do a daily again.  Okay will try the alphabet again, not looking at what I did last time.  You can check and see if they are the same or not.  Thanks for looking in even if I don't know you are here.

Tuesday nights

I really enjoy my writing evening with my friend.  We discuss where our characters are going and how we are going to get them there.  Last night we added suspects who look guilty but are innocent.  My main character is interviewing suspect #2 and finding out some interesting information.  How he uses it I'm not sure yet but he will.  We know how suspect #1 is associated with the crime but not suspect #2.  I've been writing that for most of a couple of hours but I got to a but and wasn't sure where to take that, but the main character will tell me soon I'm sure.  I want to know what happens just like a reader. hehe

Frustration dissipated

It is okay to have a bar-ba-que in the back yard.Just got confirmation to that effect.  Asked for a letter as I'm sure the next time we bbq the firemen will be back.
Going to my writing group tonight it is only me and another lady but we critique and talk about our writing.  We promised ourselves that by Christmas our manuscripts will be ready for traditional publishers.  I have been diligent about doing some writing each day, I now have a goal to to work to.

F is for frustration again

We are having problems with our neighbors with our bar-ba-quing.  They don't like the smoke from the charcoal so they call the fire department.  They come and tell us don't use wood, okay we aren't using wood.  That was two weeks ago when the firemen came twice and put the b-b-q out before we got our meat cooked.  But Saturday when they came we were using charcoal.  Now what is the problem, too much smoke and a open fire in a b-b-q.  Tell me how else do you cook with a b-b-q without some fire?  So Ken went to the city hall this afternoon and was only given a phone number that was out of service and an e-mail that didn't work.  Frustration! I think that the person who is complaining doesn't have a b-b-q and is jealous about ours.  Somehow we will find out what can be burned and how.  Maybe there is no b-b-qing anymore this summer with "smoke or fire".  I don't know.

I don't know

I keep trying even if I have nothing to write about.  I have a week to come up with 5 prompts to send into the e-mail prompts I started in May.  I just can't come up with the ones for July.  Oh maybe, what you write about on your daily blog or website if you have nothing to say except what you are doing today.  Now there is an idea for #6 but there are 4 more.
I've been trying to remember to Google someone I knew years ago, but keep forgetting when I'm at the computer.  Will do that right now and write the prompt.  Maybe I should keep typing then I might come up with #7- 10.

Maybe F for frustrated

I'm frustrated today as I tried to get a "free" help to market my books, it said state or province.  Well it wouldn't let me enter a province it was only the states.  So I quit after 3 tries, of going out and coming back to repeat the process.
But I am also happy about my critiquing with a friend on Tuesdays night.  We both learn a lot about our characters and the mysteries we are writing.  We agreed to have the first draft finished  by Sept 24 and ready for sending to publisher, not self publishing by Christmas.
Still waiting for my check from Chicken Soup, they said June and June is over half over and I haven't got my check yet or my 10 books that I get for the story in Chicken Soup for the  Inspirational Nurses Soul, which is coming into stores July 21.  Hope you buy it and bring it to Unity In Action at Edinburgh and 17th in New Westminster on a Sunday for me to sign.  I will be glad to sign it for you.

My thanks to people

I want to thank my good friend for doing my duty yesterday at church.  He took over as chaplain after service as I wasn't up to going to church yesterday.  

I thank God for getting me out of a tough situation.  He is always there for me when I call on Him which I do often as he never leaves me. I may leave Him or think I can but there is no way I can get away from His presence, power, love or life.  

My thanks to someone who listened to me and talked to the person I asked her/him to talk to.  I am so grateful to everyone in my life.  Thank you all for your love, life and presence in my life.

June 12 I think

Lovely sunny day and warm with no wind, but I feel lousy.  I seem to be having an allergic reaction to a new med.  My face is sore and swollen, I have a rash around me eyes and nose.  I don't know why I'm writing today other than looking for commiseration, some one to feel sorry for me.  I know I do.
Oh well, I'm going to quit begging for sympathy and go outside in the sun.
Did what I had to do now I'm going to do what I want, nothing. hehe

June 11

I know I haven't written for a few days.  Went to a sort of private writers group Tuesday night.  It is a sort of writers group as there are two of us and we discuss and go over writing ideas and ways to write what ever we are writing.  Right now we are exploring mystery writing as that is what I have almost finished is a how done it. Well we know who done it but not why and how he is going to get caught.   It took to 3/4 of the way through to find out who but now that I know who I have to find out why and how he is going get caught and why he did what he did.
Have I got you interest peaked?  Well we have decided to have our manuscripts ready for sending to a traditional publisher by Christmas.  That means I have to find a publisher who is interested in mystery and 18 - 30 readers.  This isn't a Y.A it is a step above.  Y.A is young adult, teens to 20ish.
Didn't have anything to write about when I started but came up with something didn't I.

Feelings

Sometimes it is hard to deal with feelings. They come up at the most inopportune time. For instance you feel you want or need something but it depends on someone else make it available for you.  One person says you deserve it and another says no, but the one who says no is the one who has the authority to do it or not.  I know this sounds confusing, well it is.

Another time you are given something that make your glow with happiness or joy. 

Why can't life be simple, okay if you, I give my life over to the care of God it should be simple and level.  Now there is an idea.  I give my life to God and He will take care of the problems.  Thank You God for being God in my life.  Takes a while to get to the point of life, turn it over to God.  So there!! 

Another letter of the alphabet

Oh I don't know, I seems the word is I again.  I went to the gym this morning alone as my friend goes to the beach on nice sunny warm days, which leaves me to either go alone or not go.  I think I would rather go than not go.
I read Psalm 40, 1-3 this morning and added my prayer.  Not suppose to tell anyone until after it comes about.
I have a question to anyone who knows something about computers.  Why won't a talking cd not work on my laptop.  I've tried a number of times and nothing.  When I take it out it is turning, but nothing had been coming through. Yes I had the sound on.  Now this gives someone a reason to respond.  I had promised to write something daily and I'm kept my end of the deal.  Maybe I've missed a couple of days when I am busy but I try.  Besides it is hard when there is only one computer and Ken is on it.

Letter of the Alphabet

Nothing to say today so will use a letter from the Alphabet.  How about the letter I, I am. I am what?  I am the child of the living God.  I am willing to wait on the Lord, now that is the hard part because I want it now.  But the service this morning was Psalm 40 1-3 which says I wait upon the Lord, and He lifted me out of the mire and mud to the solid rock.  I am learning to wait, but it is one of the hardest things to do.  I just realized something, while I am waiting I can pray for patience or just go inside and know the Lord is with me and he will move the line or what ever is holding me up along.  He is marvelous and loves me unconditionally.  Thank You God
Now I remember if I can't think of something to write go to the Alphabet.  Smart thinking

Got something it brag about today

I've just sent White Medicine Woman to Self e library service and if I don't hear from them with in a few weeks, White Medicine Woman will be accepted and it will be a couple of months before I hear anything regarding where it will be available.  Yee Haa!!!!
Maybe that is all.
Not much to report today, except why am I inside when the sun is shinning?  Good question, can't answer.  Oh well I'm going out side for a while in the warmth.

Blah day

Don't have anything to write about today except, I want the sun, this rain, cold weather is bad for my arthritis.  I need to be in Arizona or the Okanagan.  I'm suppose to be doing this soreness in the winter but we had such a nice winter I didn't get sore. Now is not the time and I don't like it