Uncategorized 4:52 pm
I finished my short story! w00t! I’m so pleased with it! I’ll wait and submit in a few weeks. For now, I’ll finish up the Christmas thing and prepare for my AW visitor coming first week of Jan! W00T!
Uncategorized 11:45 pm
1. I can consume a bucket of Gummi Bears in record breaking time.
2. I have a seven-year-old newt, whom I feed blood worms to. I adopted him after family’s final visit to a pet store. *grin*
3. have a habit of keeping my toes curled.
4. I rarely ever – ever watch TV.
5. I always, always end up with the crooked-wheeled baskart at the store.
one more biggy; I have some form of ‘ism’. teehee. That is, I hate when a picture, object etc… sits crooked on a wall. But not to the point of physically having to walk over and reposition an object in another’s house. But still people, get a level if you eye can’t detect balance! Argh!
Uncategorized 6:57 pm
Have a wonderful, safe and Happy Holiday, all!
oh and yeah, my blog, so forget the politically correct, MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Uncategorized 6:59 pm
My new manuscript is finally coming together as I flesh out my characters. I have been slightly outlining, but find I work best without.
I have three main characters developing. One main character, Teige, an attorney who hails from Hobgood, N.C. insisted on changing careers during midstream. ARGhhh, rewrite–resorb! He’s a dark brooding sort, in need of a charge, change and challenge.
So after consulting with a friend–a local FBI agent here, I consented, listened to my male mc wishes and have given him a new career as Special Agent at a field office in the Carolinas… for the time being… He’ll eventually climb higher within the FBI organization…?
I was going to kill him off, but now I’m thinking of having him suffer a worse fate; giving him a bi**hy, whiny, possessive wifey, y’know, the one your mamma warned you about—Tsk, tsk, he’ll soon have to divorce. Poor Teige, he’d been better off stayn’ at the firm in Hobgood, feeding his wifey’s expensive shopping habits and style of livin’ she’d grown accustomed to.
Now maybe I can get some peace and continue.
wip: 3,500 goal: 75,000
Whats playn’ on my CD: Anna Nalick, Breathe 2 am.
Uncategorized 3:04 am
Today, my sixteen-year-old daughter’s school was surrounded by EMTs, police and fire fighters: A helicopter hovered above the campus grounds. The coroner came first, then the hearse.
There was a car crash on campus involving drunk drivers:
Three critically injured sixteen-year-old girls who had been drinking, with one dead at the scene and one non-injured; the drunk driver. They rushed the critically injured away in ambulances. The non-injured was handcuffed and arrested at the scene. The last girl was released by the fire dept. using the jaws of life, then put in a body bag and taken away in a hearse.
All students and teachers were watching–weeping.
Here’s the lesson: This was an elaborate, very expensive mock set-up, only done every few years due to cost.
Here’s what happens now to teach the girls; tonite one girl–the drunk driver, will spend her nite in an actual jail. The three critically injured will spend their night in a hospital’s intensive care unit, and the baby girl in the body bag was taken to the morgue, via hearse and will spend the night alone sans cell or anyone:
She’s dead and needs to feel the deadness.
The students all volunteered, wore fake blood, and some of the students watching actually fainted. One had a seizure… Five were taken to the hospital due to the intensity of this lesson.
Tomorrow morn, parents will come and give their daughters’ eulogy.
The crashed car will remain on campus for two weeks.
I am thankful for this powerful, emotional lesson, so very grateful to the professionals who donated their time and monies.
What’s playn’ on my CD: Green Day
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Uncategorized 9:04 pm
A big thank you to an awesome literary agent, Janet Reid who gives advice to the hopefuls: her inspiring post, Two - Parts- Brave, for writers.
http://jetreidliterary.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-parts-of-brave.html
What’s playn’ on my CD: Mazzy Star, Fade Into You
Uncategorized 9:52 pm
Got this idea from Cath’s Blog. I’ll stray a little… Also tag Thomma and Ali.
8 Things I’m Passionate About…
Family Art
Music Books Animals
History Writing Loyal
8 Things I Want To Do before I Die:
In the fall, follow Route 1 from NC to Canada. Every year I say I’ll do this, then forget.
Visit the Seychelles Islands, Adriatic Sea, and yeah, Greenland too.
On impulse and alone; get in my car and hit the backroads for several weeks, sans cell-phone, sans map or destination.
Create a masterpiece with my words.
Change another’s life for the better.
8 Books I Recently Read:
The Faith Club, Left To Tell, The Emancipators Wife and this is all as of late, as I’ve been writing.
8 Favorite Songs:
I dance all across the boards here as all music appeals to me. It would simply be impossible… from opera to rap…country to rock etc… I heart it all.
8 Things Which Attract Me To People:
Easier for me to weed out and say the few things I don’t like as well;
I like people who weave their own threads with unique textures and colorful emotions. And I truly think it’s imperfections which make a person beautiful.
I love it when people present their ideas with a genuine, fiery passion. And the ones who can see the grey areas in between this sometimes black and white easy-breezy-world of ours.
I shy away from people who sacrifice kindness toward others just for one-upmanship or just to be cool. And I hate when people mistake kindness for weakness.
I have no tolerance for people who use their past misfortunes as crutch and sense of entitlement.
I do not like it when people go on and on about religion, pushing their beliefs… I do believe in God, however I believe we do not need to take the same path to get to Him.
8 Things That make Me Smile:
Barefoot on a beach.
A bag of Gummi Bears.
See my pups grinning. What? You didn’t know dogs smile?
My teen’s excitement on a weekend night as she prepares to destress from the school week, and the fact that she can time her driving to be where she is stalled behind a public transit bus in front of an all boys’ school, when school dismisses each day.
Coming across a Greasy Spoon diner on a winding backroad, ordering the daily special, pulling up a stool and listn’ to the locals converse. I think this is more of comfort, but I’ll list it here.
A extended smile that warms the heart and nourishes the soul.
Dessert before dinner.
A bouquet of wild flowers, given by small, grubby hands, which ends up gracing my worn-out kitchen table.
What’s playn’: INDIGO GIRLS. And thanks Jenna for giving me this wonderful CD for my BD. Loves it!
Uncategorized 1:44 pm
I finished all my edits and wrapped it up last night.
Yesterday, I received a surprise party out at my retreat cottage, Summershade. I saw people I hadn’t seen in years–a really special surprise!
The only snag was: three people decided to sit on my porch swing. :ahem: I turned around to find them sitting on the ground and Joyce yelling, “I’ve always loved your farm.”
Translated to mean: Call your lawyer, Kimmi!
Uncategorized 9:47 pm
I’m just waiting to receive my ms back from agent. Then edit!
I’ve joined an online book-club, which my newspaper is hosting.
The first book to read is The Faith Club, by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Patricia Warner. I look forward to reading it!
