Topic: SNAP TO IT (Read 3113 times)

TCB · « **Reply #120 on:** January 15, 2017, 10:06:58 PM »

Page Five!

TCB · « **Reply #121 on:** January 15, 2017, 10:08:58 PM »

I don't exactly shift to waves crashing on the beach, but I do a nice fade-out after the big kiss.

TCB · « **Reply #122 on:** January 15, 2017, 10:09:45 PM »

It is so wonderful to have DR Kerry back posting.

TCB · « **Reply #123 on:** January 15, 2017, 10:10:06 PM »

Continued recovery vibes to Kerry!

TCB · « **Reply #124 on:** January 15, 2017, 10:11:24 PM »

This is a bad weekend for me.

TCB · « **Reply #125 on:** January 15, 2017, 10:12:42 PM »

Tomorrow (the 16th) is the actual anniversary of the day my mom was killed.

TCB · « **Reply #126 on:** January 15, 2017, 10:14:24 PM »

But that year it was the Sunday before MLK's birthday.

TCB · « **Reply #127 on:** January 15, 2017, 10:16:00 PM »

You would think I had gotten over it by now, but it is a powerful event in my life.

TCB · « **Reply #128 on:** January 15, 2017, 10:17:00 PM »

Anyway, I am in a mood this weekend.

TCB · « **Reply #129 on:** January 15, 2017, 10:18:38 PM »

I will probably go to the cemetery tomorrow, even though I can't actually get to the grave.

TCB · « **Reply #130 on:** January 15, 2017, 10:23:06 PM »

I watched my other two Sherlock Holmes films.

Jane · « **Reply #131 on:** January 15, 2017, 10:24:25 PM »

Quote from: George on January 15, 2017, 08:52:30 PM

Quote from: John G. on January 15, 2017, 08:43:41 PM
I know there's no mail.

Now this is weird...this morning, I had to meet a fellow TAO board member to return an extra key to our theater, and as I was leaving my condo complex, a USPS mail truck was coming into my condo complex! I'd never heard of mail delivery on Sunday, so I have no idea what they were doing out and about on a Sunday.

It seems everyone delivers on Sundays now, even Amazon, for the right price.

TCB · « **Reply #132 on:** January 15, 2017, 10:25:34 PM »

One of them was TERROR BY NIGHT. Not bad for a murder on the train mystery.

Jane · « **Reply #133 on:** January 15, 2017, 10:26:46 PM »

DR John, I am glad you enjoyed the concert.

Jane · « **Reply #134 on:** January 15, 2017, 10:27:30 PM »

Quote from: TCB on January 15, 2017, 10:08:58 PM

I don't exactly shift to waves crashing on the beach

😁

TCB · « **Reply #135 on:** January 15, 2017, 10:27:53 PM »

The other was THE WOMAN IN GREEN. I love all those old Holmes films.

Jane · « **Reply #136 on:** January 15, 2017, 10:28:30 PM »

Quote from: TCB on January 15, 2017, 09:51:05 PM

But fortunately, no sign of Hell Kitty.

Good!

Jane · « **Reply #137 on:** January 15, 2017, 10:29:08 PM »

Quote from: TCB on January 15, 2017, 10:18:38 PM

I will probably go to the cemetery tomorrow, even though I can't actually get to the grave.

I am sorry about that.

TCB · « **Reply #138 on:** January 15, 2017, 10:29:46 PM »

I never did get around to watching THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN this weekend.

TCB · « **Reply #139 on:** January 15, 2017, 10:31:38 PM »

I will watch it some day this week.

TCB · « **Reply #140 on:** January 15, 2017, 10:34:31 PM »

Well, I need to get ready for bed.

bk · « **Reply #141 on:** January 15, 2017, 11:03:41 PM »

I'll tell you a little secret about why I write the way I do - it's daunting doing eleven pages a day or even six pages a day (on other books I've done up to fifteen or twenty a day). I do it because I'm afraid I'll lose the momentum and style - I am so exhausted at the end of each day, but I know that's the way I have to do it - to keep it moving along and not give myself time to overthink things or, worse, have to get back into the swing of things in terms of the style and momentum. I just have to do it this way and for me it's really the only way.

bk · « **Reply #142 on:** January 15, 2017, 11:08:40 PM »

I did take a lovely hot shower and thankfully straightened out a plot point that was really bugging me and which I couldn't figure out at all - I knew the basic idea of it was okay but what I'd come up with wasn't. But in the shower it all straightened itself out handily and it should work fine now - this is for the next chapter after the one I just started. And figuring out that little plot point led me to something fun for the chapter I just began, so as soon as I got out of the shower I added that and it worked beautifully. I am now on the final three chapters of the book, each of which will probably run twenty-five to thirty pages, which will probably bring the manuscript in at around 260 pages, which is about twenty pages longer than the Adriana books and, in fact, the majority of my books - most of the manuscripts run around 237 pages, which results in a book that runs around 180-something pages. So, this one should come out at around 200 pages, which feels fine to me. After I finish and it's all proofed and ready for Grant to design, I have to decide on one thing that I might or might not want to add as a sort of appendix. It doesn't really need it, but on the other hand, people might enjoy it.

TCB · « **Reply #143 on:** January 15, 2017, 11:58:56 PM »

Quote from: bk on January 15, 2017, 11:03:41 PM

I'll tell you a little secret about why I write the way I do - it's daunting doing eleven pages a day or even six pages a day (on other books I've done up to fifteen or twenty a day). I do it because I'm afraid I'll lose the momentum and style - I am so exhausted at the end of each day, but I know that's the way I have to do it - to keep it moving along and not give myself time to overthink things or, worse, have to get back into the swing of things in terms of the style and momentum. I just have to do it this way and for me it's really the only way.

Bruce, I admire your profiecency.

TCB · « **Reply #144 on:** January 16, 2017, 12:00:29 AM »

I had Chinese food for dinner, and now I am so thirsty, I can't get over it.

TCB · « **Reply #145 on:** January 16, 2017, 12:01:52 AM »

Dinner was okay. It was Panda Express.

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