Is there more to life than writing?

Sometimes I wonder what life would be like if I peeled off my writing layer  the way I did my nursing layer, my farmer layer and my clerk layer. Would I reach the core and find only lead there? Or would I find a perfectly formed gold nugget?

I don't want to know. It's too soon.

So, with my husband, I'll travel ... searching for fascinating  settings and quirky characters. I'll eavesdrop on conversations to capture different voices, take note of impossible situations, and I'll write.

But first, I'll stop to smell the roses,

so sweet after rain. Their petals fall one by one. I'll save them as potpourri. 

and I'll pick up my knitting needles.  There's joy in physical  creativity, too.

Toy Rabbit              

 

I'll play with Spitzli on the beach

 

and take her to visit my Aunty.

 

With the onset of autumn, to be followed by winter,  the time has come to rewrap myself in writing. Time to think.

 Now is not the time to discover if there's more to life than writing, nor to discover my core.

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

Editing the novel

For the past few days Gabriela and I have had fun reading aloud the unedited copy of The Unhewn Stone. We discovered small errors that were easily rectified and I was pleased to hear G. chuckle and react to the characters' antics and plot incidents. It's very satisfying when your reader is drawn into the story and chooses to remain there.

Visits to local bookstores were rewarding. I found the managers are most responsive and friendly towards local authors. When I have my cover and a release date I'll be able to arrange for readings and book signing.

Making Friends

It's fun making new writing friends and joining new sites. I've learned more about the Internet in the last few days than I would have if I'd taken a three month course.

Thanks for all the help, Mark and my fellow authors.

One thing I can't do and that's add an image. It seems to be uploading the jpg file and I have the shrink to fit box ticked, but when the green bar is full, nothing happens. Maybe there is something missing on my computer but the scanned photo came up - not shrunk though which was a disappointment.

I love adding links though. :-)

Excited to post my first blog

14th January,
Today I spent ages trying to decide on a blog site. I'm glad I found this one so I can share the progress and reviews of my novel, The Unhewn Stone, recently accepted for publication by Enspiren Press. I'm fortunate to have the lovely and talented Mirella Pazter, author of Heinrich the Fowler and Bloodstone Castle, as my editor.

The Unhewn Stone is a time travel novel set in Switzerland during the Middle Ages. Our modern-day hero, Stefan Gessler, is caught up in the violent times where the Wilhelm Tell legend originated. Unable to return to the 21st century because Tell stole half of his golden orb, the key to the Wurmloch that will take him home, Stefan is thrust into one dangerous adventure after another. With his 14th century 'cousin', Rolf, (in love withTell's wild daughter, Eva) Stefan is pursued by an evil knight and a shapeshifting sibyl and forced to face his own demons and those of medieval Switzerland.

More later.