Thursday, November 26, 2009Happy Thanksgiving!I hope you and yours are having a glorious day. I haven't been here to blog in forever and I'm sorry about that; I've also accepted that I'm never going to be very good at it. This is only one among many, many things I'm not good at, and I'm okay with that, too.I'm on the wind-down on the story I'm working on. I've got about 20 pages or so, a chapter and some, and I'll be able to type "The End" and get started on one my favorite parts of writing: the rewrites. Where I go over the whole manuscript and tie up the loose ends (I have lots of those) and take out the unnecessary "thats" and "she saids." I make sure the secondary characters end the story with the same names they started it with and try to keep eye and hair colors consistent while I'm at it. But first I have to write the last 20 pages, the moment of hopelessness (which I'm in the middle of; it lasts an hour or so in the book but takes me a week to write!), the "aha" moment. I have say goodbye to people I've come to know and love and I have to be convincing about it. It's hard. And I'm okay with it. My kids are all grown up, and today we're not seeing any of them. It's kind of lonely with just the roommate and me and the cats. But everyone's healthy. I think they're all happy. So I'm okay with it. I'm glad I didn't have to work today, sorry I'm working tomorrow. But I have a good job in a time when there aren't that many of them, and I like it more often than not, so...yeah, I'm okay with it. I'll leave you with that, I think. You're a grownup so you know life isn't always wonderful or perfect or even happy, but if, most of the time, you're okay with it, well, you're ahead of the game. Have a great day. In case I don't make it back--you know how I am--have a Merry Christmas, too. Labels: I'm okay with that., Thanksgiving posted by Liz Flaherty # 10:33 AM 0 Comments
Sunday, November 23, 2008Happy Thanksgiving... ...again! So what's new? It's been busy here in North Central Nowhere. I'm back to work. Still writing--word by excruciating word! Winter's come, I'm afraid. There've been snow-dustings and mornings when the car's shivered when I opened her door. But all is well. Three of the grandboys are playing basketball, one grandgirl playing volleyball, and the oldest grandgirl--gasp--is home from college for Thanksgiving (how did she get that old?). The youngest grandboy, Fionnegan, is four and just into being cute and funny. Almost forgot--book of the month is ALL the romance anthologies that are out now. I don't like all of the novellas necessarily, but there are a ton of good ones! The one that comes to mind, and forgive the lack of titles, is the historical one that Cheryl St. John "headlines" in. Her story's great and so are the others. Happy reading! Hope you have a splendid holiday! Labels: Cheryl St. John, holiday anthologies, Thanksgiving posted by Liz Flaherty # 4:21 AM 1 Comments
Wednesday, November 21, 2007Happy Thanksgiving...I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving, doing what you want to do. The boyfriend and I are going to be on our own and our dinner will be comprised of what we want: one turkey--which equals just tons of turkey sandwiches--and one pumpkin pie. I have to work Friday, and then we're going to spend the weekend with two of our kids' families, eating lobster and shrimp. This is a tradition of theirs that I'm anxious to get used to.I'm thankful for many things this year: family, health, writing. I lost a dearly loved aunt in September, but she lived a long and--I think--happy life, so it's hard to grieve too much. The year contained the hardest six month I've ever spent in the work force, but I survived and so did the women I work with. I feel like singing "we are the champions, my friends" really loud, but no one ever wants me to sing. I hope you have a great holiday. Till next time. Labels: Thanksgiving posted by Liz Flaherty # 5:53 PM 0 Comments
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