Oh Look, I'm Still Alive

So...still alive.

Still haven't finished Book Four.

I know, I know. Work stuff got in the way, and I think I burned myself out by writing three novels in less than a year, and the whole parenting thing...and then I got a full time job, too.

But I'm still here ;) Still (somewhat) active on Twitter - and finally breached 1k followers! So thanks to everyone in the #writingcommunity for that, you are all awesome!

The Writing Thing.

I've got another three book ideas the churn out, now that my work will be slowing down for the next few months. The great thing about working in a tourist town is that, once summer is over, it gets reaaaaally quiet until the warm comes back. Especially since the kids are heading back to school. I'll actually have time to think.

And overthink. I'm wondering if two of my book ideas are too similar. The third, of course, is more Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy cross over, and so completely different, but the other two are both in the Olsson's Pass universe. They both involve a shifter in my universe going "feral" - ie: no longer more human than not - and loosing that part of themselves that's "civilized" (for lack of a better term)...and then finding their way back, by way of someone showing compassion/understanding, etc. I'm wondering if I should make one of them more rich-playboy-looses everything and the other more of a 'feral animal' kind of deal...Actually, that might actually work.

I know the initial answer should be "Shut up and write, Trudie, it's been more than a year since you said Book Four was coming out," but I'm more thinking aloud. Or a-page. It's been a while, so I know more than anything I just need to start and edit later...it's the starting, that's the problem, of course.

Non-Writing Nonsense

It's apple and cherry season again, so I've got way more apples than I know what to do with. Quite literally.

That's a lot of damn apples.

So, this year's attempts at using up vast quantities of fruit have so far included apple-ginger jelly, strawberry apple jelly, cherry wine and apple-ginger wine. Friend of Hubs' offloaded all of their wine-making equipment on us for free, so that's fun...now just to learn the process. Hopefully by Christmas I'll have good news to report on that front. I'm totally new to all of this.

So yeah. Still alive, still kicking, still...somewhat writing. :D

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Photo Friday

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