Writing

My "word!" I should say, my LACK of words!!! Wait a minute...I hear something...do you hear it as well? It sounds like WHOOSH would feel! I do believe that I am experiencing an OOB! I am actually hearing TIME flying! Oops...I think that perhaps if I am OOB, then time is no longer linear. I guess I am not OOB, but very in this one. I hate that time is linear. It passes me by! Yes, I am older. Yes, I have lost two months of writing! That's even worse than getting older!!
I know, enough with the exclamation marks, awready!
I will update this blog in September. My daughter and granddaughter have been here with us in Maine from Virginia for the month of August. It's been a combination of heaven and hell. The energy is intense and they have so much of it. I don't. I have gotten really tired. The house is a wreck, and my precious rat, Macadamia, has not gotten the attention that he so deserves, although I have not neglected him, I promise. He is on my shoulder right now and kissing the back of my neck, which is grooming, which is his way of showing me affection. I love him so much. Anyway, the lack of energy and things getting tipsy topsy turvy have been the hell. My time with my recently turned five year old granddaughter wipes out any thoughts of the hell and turns the atmosphere into heaven, unless she is exhausted, and that is another story. She is extremely intuitive and comes up with observations that completely floor me. I need to write some of her stuff up to save. She's amazing. What? You question my observations due to the fact that I am her grandmother and as a result, biased? Nah. Not at all.
I will return to this blogsite soon and share my progress with my sci-fi novel for a YA audience. I am three and a half chapters into it. It went back burner when my girls got here, but I will tackle it with enthusiasm as soon as the dust settles. Actually, I am flying back with them to VA in a few days. I'll be there for three weeks. One of my promises to me was to be present (physical body as long as I can and then spirit after I leave this physical body behind) at life changing events for my granddaughter. Well, she is starting Kindergarten this fall. Now, THAT is life changing! Her mommy will be a basket-case, so there are actually two life changing events that are pending; my Nadia starting Kindergarten, and my Cindy needing to be able to "let go," just a tad! Wish us all luck! Until next time...

Well, it's nearly the end... of March, that is...I heard back from Simon Rose and am totally pumped that he has agreed to do the interview with me.  He has had at least two weeks of working in schools, so I told him not to worry/hurry.  It will be fun when it happens.
I have been writing articles for Suzanne Lieurance for the CWCClub and she has been working on getting us an online presence.  That's a wait and see.  Another wait and see is a response from Highlights Magazine around my jellies (jellyfish) article.  Other wait and sees:  Writers Digest Contest/poetry, Silver Boomer Anthology submission/poem, Highlights Magazine fiction contest,  six write-for-hire "probes," ABC Books contest/PB, and one that I am about to send in to Chrysalis Readers called "Bluebirds," which I feel is my best work to date.  It's about an Alzheimer's situation basically between a mom and her daughter.  It struck close to home, and I wrote it from the heart.  Actually, everything that I try and write is from the heart, especially my poems, but Bluebirds felt right.  It made my husband's eyes tear up and that's a statement in itself.  So you see, I AM writing.  The project that I really want to "have at," is my sci-fi YA novel.  It's present time.  The sci-fi part is around parallel universes.  My MC accidently passes through a "membrane" that has just connected her universe to another.  The thing that I have taken from multi-universe or parallel universes theories is this: the thing that makes another universe different from the one that you are in is "a single pivotal event."  For example, it has been explained, if a cosmic beam passed through Hitler's mother's womb, and prevented her from being able to reproduce, Hitler would never have been born.  This is taken from someone else's work (Machio Kaku...awesome cosmologist) and paraphrased by me.  The single pivotal event in the universe that my MC encounters is the fact that she was never born.  That alone may be my "antagonist."  We'll see.  I have started writing it, but still need to piece together some bits and pieces of up and down; twists and turns.  I am also toying with the idea that she may not get back at the end, bc I'd love to do a series.  If my brain doesn't come up with enough for a series, then I'll end it with her getting back.  I can't upset my readers, you know.  :-)
Until next time...I'll keep the pens, notebooks and keypad warm!