74 degrees and 9 pm Christmas day.
This one's for Galen - it's a dragon nudibranch. I've taken many photographs of these creatures. I never tire of them. I guess you could call them my passion among many things (horses, sailboats, diving).
So one of my Christmas books was from Touloose. THE ZEN OF WRITING by Ray Bradbury. He said so much that rings true for writers but one thing was especially meaningful to me.
Write your passion.
Take your character and make them love what you love and want what you want. In this way you can make your story authentic and tell the truth.
So I now find myself writing about a poor disoriented woman who is seaching for the perfect black and white cat.
One with opposable thumbs.
Oh yeah,
His name's gotta be Touloose...
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Hi Patricia. Just wanted to drop you a note from sunny South Africa. I got Lottery from my parents-in-law. They asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I told them, lol.
I am loving your book so much! Great job. And Merry Christmas to you.
I got a copy of LOTTERY for Christmas! I'm so excited!
How fun! Let me know how you like it when you finish.
I got it from my daughter yesterday and I'm already halfway through. I see your point about writing what you love -- I'll be a sailing pro before I'm finished!
Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year to you!
I Love Ray Bradbury - good writing advice from a master!
Happy Christmas!
Merry Christmas from Canada.
How fun to see people commenting who received Lottery for Christmas, huh?!
I thought you were going to say that your character is an expert on dragon nudibranches. (for once I'm not joking)
:-)
beautiful, thank you!
Church lady- very funny! I meant recycled photos...but being a nudibrach expert would be fairly cool...
Nudibranch? Isn't that what Adam wore over his dangly bits?
Happy New Year!
Great post. I didn't get Lottery for Christmas but I did give it out as a Christmas present to everyone in my office. Happy New Year.
I have many books about writing. But not this one. Sounds good!
Happy New Years, Pat! (And I loved Lottery, too.)
You're brilliant, as always. Thanks for writing my most-recommended book of 2007 :)
Lovely photo! I've read The Zen of Writing and loved it. It's one of my favorite writing books. Have you read Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott? That's another good one.
Take your character and make them love what you love and want what you want. In this way you can make your story authentic and tell the truth.
I knew it! I shoulda been writing erotica all along.
Happy New Year, Pat, from the opposite side of the planet. Due to the time difference I'll get there before you, but don't worry, I'll wait.
Hi Pat, I snapped a good pictiure for you for Christmas - Lottery is in Borders at Heathrow - with a big display- I'll email it to you in the next few days- thought you'd wanna see it.
Happy holidays!
You're very sneaky... eavesdropping when I'm talking about you! LOL... good thing I didn't say anything awful.
And, yep, all I've heard are good things about your book, so it's top of my TBR pile, once I can get through the ARCs I "have" to read for The Long and the Short of It.
:-)
Happy New Year!
May it be filled with peace and prosperity! (and lots of good books!)
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