It’s a go . . . and more thanks . . . and a new crush, uh, hero in the works

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2008

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OK, from all the comments I got, the contest is a go. I’ll send Liz my updates later, and the drawing for the basket will be in December.  Don’t forget to write or comment!

Thanks, again, for everyone who’s asked, sent wishes, or good prayers for Rachel. She’s improving, bit by bit. I’ll post some pictures soon. With Rach, getting well always takes a long time because it occurs so slowly. But I do think she’s past any immediate danger, which is a huge step forward.

Finally, you remember all that dreaming I did on the 20th? Well, a lot of it was based around a new celebrity crush. The result was a 3,000 word synopsis that I wrote last weekend. Sometimes, I cast a book after the plot forms in my head – sometimes I start with the hero and work my way out. The time, the look came first, then a combination of characters, and finally my own twists on the hero resulted in the birth of a Nashville detective who’s temperamental, vulnerable, ambitious, and more than a bit driven about the one case he just can’t get out of his head.

How do you create yours?

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On October 2nd, 2008 at 10:35 pm, Jen Stephens said:

Hey, Ramona! I’m sure I do lots of things wrong with my writing, so I don’t know if this counts, but I usually have my main character(s) and I know what I want to happen to them, but as the story develops, my characters (usually my minor characters, but sometimes my main characters) morph as the plot deepens. In THE HEART’S JOURNEY HOME, neither my hero nor my heroine have changed at all through the development of the story (Physically, that is. Of course, they change spiritually.), but an important minor character has had his last name changed and another character that was a brother to the main character is now a sister. I think ya gotta have your guy, though. :) What I’m wondering, though, is which celebrity it is that could have possibly captured your attention???? ;>


On October 2nd, 2008 at 10:44 pm, Marti said:

People I know (or knew, or thought I knew).

Snatches of dialogue.

Pictures and (especially) those first lines I told you about, the ones that hang like ripe fruit, waiting to be plucked and savored.

At least that’s what I THINK happens to a Shakespeare like me. None of it has become a book yet. My feet (and my proposals) remain planted in the world of nonfiction.

But one day. One day soon!


On October 2nd, 2008 at 10:50 pm, Marti said:

P.S. And you already knew this, but: PRAYER.

And yes, I’m lifting up Rachel as well as her Mama, who continues to amaze me.



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