Seems I will do anything to keep from writing today...play with my flickr pictures, update my blog. Okay, so this is updated now, right? No? Who cares? I am floating in tea--having drunk as much as I can just to keep busy doing something, making tea. Maybe I should have one of my characters in my new (???) novel make tea! Hey, there's an idea. Life is moving along, the new year has started and things are just as usual, mostly. It's cold, another storm is supposed to be blowing in. It was so strange to go downtown on 31 December 2005 and see all the lovely places that I've been taking pictures of under water from the year-end flooding. Very different texture to life there when the sandbags are mounting and the water is rising. Even closed the theater, much to the disappointment of the kids. They all wanted to go see a movie. Ah, well...another time perhaps. It was cold, wet, rainy/snowy and blustery all around. The pictures turned out all right. Can't say great because there was too much cold/grey all around. Not much light and color. Pigeons were still out in large numbers for such a day. Wonder....maybe they really don't have anyplace else to go? They sure looked cold. Ah, more pigeon pictures to add to the collection.
Thursday is the writers' group meeting again. It's nice, quiet. Sometimes my brain works and sometimes it just stays frozen. I have been reading a lot lately, trying to get a feel for how a person sits down and actually writes a book. Have I learned anything? Nope. I just know it seems easier than it is...the words on pages turned one after another. Of course, if the book does not capture/hold the interest of the reader, then I guess that's a whole other thing. I try to read books that are captivating regardless of genre. I'm a cross-reader. LOL Mysteries, fantasy, scifi, etc. can all pull me in if they are well written. But, what is well-written to one person's mind is not to another's. Just depends on what you like, obviously. I like them all, mostly. Don't much like gory, erotica, horror, vampire, that sort of thing, though. Okay, so I guess I do have tastes leaning more one way than another. Nice to know. Makes it easier when I go to the library.
Enough! Time to get to work, seriously.
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