Monday Musings

Today I sat down at my laptop and wondered what to share with you, my readers. A glance out of the open door showed trees tossing. Wind chimes sounded in the background, the breeze nuzzled my skin, and the scent of early alyssum teased my nose. Once again, nature nudged me. Taking a moment to pause and experience our surroundings can enrich our hearts and minds. But did I just give you a rote description of my view? Authors and artists see and feel the situation before them and translate those sensations into their creative medium. A poem, a painting, a sculpture, or a song attempt to elucidate an extension of those feelings in the individual that looks at or listens to the art form. Writing and other arts are labors in observation, rendering, and transformation. A light bulb moment can be quickly reproduced or take hours, days, or even years to realize a satisfactory final product. Perseverance is requisite. Are you a creative individual? What sparks your work? You can follow the Auth...

Just as the leaves emerge from dormant branches, so too, does my writing resume. After a brief hiatus of reading and online doom-scrolling, my book characters are adamantly complaining about being ignored. My brain is filled with intrigue and adventures. Heroines, heroes, and villains talk incessantly: you have to change my name, this plot line is boring, oops-the timeline’s wrong, and oh no-I guess you’ve got to kill me. The first draft is back from the beta readers and has laid fallow over winter. It’s time to break out the red ink, the copy/paste/delete/move functions, and complete the second draft. And as a gardener, I see an analogy to transplanting healthy seedlings into fertile soil, looking forward to strong growth. Wish me luck as I dig deep to improve my post-apocalyptic novel. You can follow the Author at her  Website  or on  Twitter .