Free Trial Is Over

The fourteen days rushed by. I can't believe it is over. Now what? I paid for one month. I will see how far this can go. I have doubts. I wonder at my content. Does it intrigue?

I feel I didn't write what I intended when I started this. I will say, though, I fulfilled the promise of fresh content. Writing with ease the over a thousand words a day showed me I can do this. Is it the content?

I would say I'm a mood writer. Sometimes I write poems that usually come to me in the twilight of waking up. That James M. Barry Neverland, Pixie words by Tinkerbell feeling sets those words. I always said, I enjoy stories about stories almost more than the stories themselves. How did the author dream this up?

So often it is dreams that fuel my writing as well. Scenes from Last Free Exit came from dreams. Dreams so real you feel them for days. One of my stories for this challenge evolved from a dream. It stuck with me for days. As I visually watched a dream this morning slink off to the abyss of forgetfulness, I thought "and yet I can still remember that dream from two weeks ago."

The habit, drive, deadline of writing here every day woke in me the passion to write again. I wrote, even with distractions on Friday, on City. The story gels as I write. I know where it ends but the slog sometimes of getting there frustrates. I am a chunky writer, as one of the speakers at St. David's Christian Writers Conference explained last month. Some people can write in short spurts. Then there are those, like me, who want to write with big chunks of time. The speaker referenced The Chunky Method by Allie Pleiter. I have some more homework to do. And some shopping.

But yes, life gets in the way. As I drove home from the New Wilmington Mission Conference on Friday evening, past a gabled house with gingerbread, I thought of my nugget for a Gables and Gingerbread Story, I would call College. Oh, it would have been perfect to published it this year for the 12oth anniversary of the conference. Ready to upbraid myself as I observed all the wonderful houses in that college community as the story came, a thought flitted into my mind, I didn't have the idea till this evening and it could come out for 125!

I was happy to go to Conneaut Lake yesterday to attend a book signing by local author Jeanette Curry. Her cousin's son-in-law owns an art gallery, The Blue Heron, the spot for this event. I am friends with the artist's mother since the 1970's. Actually, I remember the artist as a baby and little boy. I taught his older brother in Sunday School before I got married. My sister has a painting from his mother that my mom bought one year. I own a print on my wall of a chickadee pulling a Christmas ornament as my way of saying, "Keep Trying."

I bought Jeanette's first in the series about Conneaut Lake in December. I read Summer Solstice, over the winter solstice. I started Harper's Cottage last night to get more of my beach/lake reads to fuel my fantasies as I know school is around the corner. I love meeting other authors. She was impressed with my business card. I shared that I use Vista Print, but I'm shopping for a local printer. The shops have faded away. Vista Print is easy, especially when life gets in the way.

And as the sub title of The Chunky Method: Your Step-By-Step Plan to WRITE THAT BOOK Even When Life Gets In the Way, states life does get in the way. My husband entered the room with his phone playing a mish mash of videos that drills into my mind as I try to write. Another reference is Susanna Wesley, mother of John, Charles, Samuel and a host of other children(nineteen in total, eight surviving when she passed) in the 1700's couldn't just get away from the hustle of life. Often her husband was away, in jail for debts. She had little money and the education of her children weighed solely on her. When she needed to pray, she pulled her apron over her head. I have decided since my husband's retirement, I need to find my apron. And reviewing Susanna's life just now, I am in no way comparing my annoyances to her struggles. Knowing history is so important.

One of my goals this week, if not today, is to find a way to give you an initial discount, an on the ground nod to your support of me. I appreciate each one of you who signed up. Sunday morning I read the article, but didn't click on more details. I do want to make this work, pushing through while "Life gets in the way."