Nook’s Not Dead Yet
I’m back at the helm even though officially Nook is still on a summer break. I should have done a post sooner about our break. I just did not have the energy. I think I’m stronger now and it is easier to talk about some things. I’ve gone from two steps back for each step forward, to maintaining and running in place. For those who don’t know I lost my husband a few months ago to an NSAID induced stomach bleed. He had refused narcotic medication to deal with his pain from an accident several years ago and took what he thought to be a safer over alternative. I can’t…
Writing Roadblocks: Recovering from Life’s Left Hooks
Waiting for the words to come… Sometimes life delivers a punch that knocks you flat and it’s hard to get your feet under you and get back to the writing again. I don’t talk much about my personal life. Mainly because writing about that includes people close to me and I don’t want to violate their privacy. This was particularly true of my husband. I sometimes wrote poetry about him, but never firmly defined who the poems were about or that they were anything more than fictional. That seemed a good way to process what I needed to process and shield him. In February his condition took a downturn and…
Writing Challenge: Writing in the Next Dimension
Writing at Dawn in Nara’s Nook I’m not the first author to love writing in the tub. Agatha Christie plotted her novels wrapped in the warmth of a nice bath. Testing Linda Kellie’s new tub at my treehouse I wonder if her characters joined her for nice chats among the bubbles. But real world tubs have real world problems like soggy pages and runny ink. Laptops and tablets in the the steam–not so great. I found a virtual tub to be useful workaround. Now the physical experience is not quite the same, but once you are settled and you are chatting with the hero about whether to include a bath…