“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the other end of the telescope.” Dr. Seuss
everyday omen: a piece of bark stuck in my car door. The bark is worse than the bite? Barking up the wrong tree? Yup, often it is a cliché or a pun…
gemstone: lapis lazuli. A favorite of mine is said to bring wisdom, understanding, and esoteric knowledge. It also attunes one to the creative source.
"If you're a writer, ideas flock around the inside of your mind like bats.” (words by Mark Haddon) (I first read this as: "If you're an artist, ideas flock around the inside of your head like gnats"...which makes room for a whole lot more swarming ideas!
tidbits: Issac Asimov wrote 500 books, more books than most people read in a lifetime.
Which brings me to: How many books do you read a year? month? week?
I read a book about every couple days (not counting editing my own!) So that's, gee, only 121 books a year about. (Okay, so I'm not counting the times I've read 2 books in one day...so maybe a few more. And you?
Mystery and romance lovers /readers make up for more than 85% of the books sold (2000). I like books that combine these two genres (Like Jayne Anne Krentz.)
John William Polidir was a contemporary of Mary Shelly, he wrote the 1st vampire story, called, 'The Vampyre".
thought: Suppose you were actually living in your novel/ Who would you be?
In my Miss Kitty Mysteries, I'm not the main character, I'm one of the artists living on Easlyn Lane, down the street from Dusty.
Sara, The Artist:
An artist hits the moment where it looks as if nothing will ever come together. The story, the painting, the sculpture, the composition is ashambles. It looks horrid and is fighting to become even more of a mess. This is not the time to give up (even when your stupid pen runs out of ink like mine just did writing this out!)
That is where my latest (large tapestry) painting (of Ganesha) has been for...a while. Okay, I found in a journal that I had started it last year. Time flies when you are wishing the painting would just come together by itself magically...
An awake: One night I was wandering about with my head hurting and I asked aloud (not really expecting an answer), "What can I take for my headache?" Spirit answered, "A chocolate." It was a surprising answer to me and it worked and tasted way better than aspirin!
(An awake, to me, is like a dream (in that it is a piece of life that has extra meaning.) only you are walking around thinking you are awake and aware in the physical world, rather than asleep and dreaming.)
Sara, The Writer: Yipeee!!! I started writing again (rather than the endless editing in various stages that I've been doing for it seems like ever). I got 7 pages done on the next Miss Kitty Mystery (#11, Portals & Poisons).
Not that I can stop editing, I have Byran's book 5 to edit through again. With even more loose ends! How come they keep multiplying when I'm not looking!? Can I just say: Byran didn't bother with that, end of story???
Oh, I am putting the 3rd Miss Kitty Mystery up on Smashwords in ebook form today, if all goes well. It is $ 3. If you love cozy mysteries and cats, this has lots of cats, the requisite dead body, and some handsome live ones to perk Sazzy's day up, oh, and even more cats (and a few dogs in case you like those).
Kittens & Kilts:
Someone is kidnapping cats
and Miss Kitty's Private Spy Agency
seems like the best place to go for help
to get the furry darlings back.
The client, in his kilt and vest, is decorative enough to snag Sazzy's attention long enough for Dusty to say, "Yes, she'll take the case."
Merrie Days:
Happy birthday to the Greek God Apollo (one source at least) on the 22nd. Happy birth anniversary to Clay, May 21. Happy day to Y, May 23. Happy birth anniversary to Aunt Nancy, May 25. And a merrie, magical day to you!
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