True to form, I’m averaging about a month to complete each week’s lesson in the How to Revise Your Novel course. I started Week 3 this week, which requires me to summarize each scene in the novel in one Sentence For Revision. This helps us see what’s missing from a … Continue reading →
I just finished reading Marley and Me by John Grogan. I may be the last person on the planet to read the book, but I’d been eyeing it since it was released a few years ago, and I finally took the plunge. For the first half of the book or … Continue reading →
I have a few email accounts without external spam filters, so I get to filter quite a bit of email spam. It’s pretty easy to spot. I click on “delete from server” and “Junk” and usually don’t pay any attention to it. But I received a new twist on the … Continue reading →
I’ve had XM radio since September 2005. At that time, I bought the boom box, car kit, and home kit accessories. I mostly listened to it when I was in the truck. A couple years ago, my car kit died right before a long drive (the time XM satellite radio … Continue reading →
We took a dozen bags of leaves, two buckets of rocks, and four buckets of dirt out to the ranch today to continue our road re-enforcement project. We trimmed back some foliage. All is well in the road department. Our roadbed building efforts, coupled with fewer trips to the ranch … Continue reading →
I’ve been pulling boards out from under the house. The previous owners stored them there, and they need to be put in a safer place — both for the boards and the house. Our termite guy says they have to be moved, and he’s right. We don’t have termites, and … Continue reading →
On August 28, 1963, I had been three years old for just a few weeks. President Kennedy was still alive. And Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior, spoke at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, sharing his dream for America. He opened the rally with this statement, “I am happy to … Continue reading →
I’m just getting started on this challenging lesson, but I think I’m getting the hang of it. I’m on page 11 (of 320) and just found my first unintended promise for the book. There may have been some earlier than this, but I don’t think so. If anything, I’ve bludgeoned … Continue reading →
As part of Lesson 2, I need to evaluate my characters to make sure they’re being all they can be. I was thinking no big deal, I only have two characters. Piece of cake. Um. No. I have two point of view characters. I think I found all the others, … Continue reading →
Finally. I’ve finished the Week 1 lesson. I started at the beginning of December and just finished. The only worksheet I don’t think I filled out well was the “Where did you like your story” sheet. And I missed it because I got caught up in reading the story and … Continue reading →