Trying To Find My Writing Mojo...

Writing is easy. Writing is hard. Writing is every bit as easy or hard as it sounds.

Contests to enter. Blogs to post. Here are some inspirational thoughts...

Yup... Wish me luck!

My Favorite Month, May, Has Come and Gone

It's always a busy month, May... kids graduating, proms, a national holiday, my birthday - and somehow the entire 31 days flew by and not a single blog post... I intended to at least post some vacation photos (from March, which seems so long ago now) and I will download them soon... but for the present, I just feel the need to post something in hopes it will spur me to get back to blogging!

There are the usual myriad unfinished projects, and more are added every day - once in a while, I actually finish one, like this Herkimer "diamond" I wire-wrapped for a friend...



Then there's the writing and the book project, and more mermaid paper dolls for the Etsy shop, and organizing my space and on and on...

But for now, we'll just keep it simple: the book project must proceed, and the writing must come first and foremost...





Finally, a shout-out to my favorite TV show that just aired its season finale, Outlander on Starz... Today is World Outlander Day, celebrating 24 years since the first book in the series was published. Since then, author Diana Gabaldon has written a total of 8 Outlander books and several related novellas, and this year the first book was adapted into a brilliantly produced series. 

Romance novels are not my genre of choice, but since Outlander is also historical fiction with a science-fiction twist (time travel, to be specific), I had to read the first book. Thousands of people world-wide have read all of them, multiple times, so the fan base is extensive. And although many devoted readers can be snarky and can't quite appreciate the difference between a novel and its film adaptation, I enthusiastically applaud producer Ronald D. Moore and his team for doing an amazing job of recreating 18th century Scotland for the small screen and bringing these characters to life on so many levels. 

So, Happy World Outlander Day! Next year, Season Two (Dragonfly In Amber, Book Two) begins - Je suis prest ("I am ready").