Friday, January 28, 2011

Even dogs like snow days

If you don't know, I live in New England, and this year has been a crazy snowy year so far.  I don't remember ever seeing this much snow in such a short time since I was a little girl. We've had a storm a week for about four weeks, and apparently we've got another coming in again next week. *sigh* I like snow, it reminds me of simpler days of snowmen, snow angels, sledding and snowball fights, but there comes a time when even a snow liker will say: "enough is enough!"


The second snowstorm we had here lasted nearly 12 hours.  During those hours, I managed to carve some time out- read "muster the nerve"- to bundle myself up and head outside with Molly, the family's black labrador.  She loves snow.  She runs and jumps and plays and chases the snow when we toss it. Yeah, she loves snow days.  Now, there is so much snow that it is swallowing her up.  It is up past her shoulders and she can't hardly find a place that she can reach to do her business.  She is sad and a bit cranky; she just wants to play in it, but there is just too much for her.


Below I have attached some pictures of a happier snow day.





Thursday, January 27, 2011

Back on track

Sometime around Christmas I became derailed from my writing.  I'm not sure what it was that derailed me, but I know what it was that started me up again: Matt. He, without truly meaning to, made me feel guilty for not writing.  So, I am attempting to get back on track.

I have decided to create a secondary blog: http://www.my2novels.blogspot.com/ where I will share and showcase my novels episodically.  This will force me to work on writing and revising my half finished novels.

I have been working on one of them- Eleanor Hayes- since I was in college and the others since 2006 and 2007 respectively... so actually there are three novels in progress, not two.  I had forgotten about the third until just this moment when I checked my documents folder on my desktop.

Eleanor Hayes is a mystery- I am actually expanding my senior project- a short story- into a full length novel.
Faerie Story is a paranormal romance novel featuring fairies and elves.
Vampire Romance is also a paranormal romance novel.

I am most excited and proud of my mystery.  Mystery was my first love when I began reading as a child.  I was a huge Nancy Drew fan and still love to read and re-read those classic mystery books. Even now the first section of the bookstore I go to is usually the mystery section.