Blue Monday

[rolanni]

I'm rather despondent as I write this.  On-going this, that, and the other thing.  I can't quite get to and back from the ocean on my own at the moment, because Reasons, but if I could I'd definitely run away today.

Well.  Next week, maybe.  Or the week after.

In the meantime, Book the Next has exceeded 40,000 words for the fourth time since we began this journey, and -- has not only not (as yet, experience teaches me to say) been busted back to private, but has put on a little more weight.  (Yes, Mixed Metaphor is today's special.  Why do you ask?) We have also reached one of the pivot scenes, so -- yay, us.  I'm taking the fact that we have reached this scene to mean that we've finally gotten the set-up right.

Fingers crossed, going forward.

The title for Book the Next continues to elude us.  I'm thinking maybe we can do a Choose Your Own Title, sort of like Choose Your Own Ending, only you get all the fun upfront.

For those who have been playing Amazon Bingo at home -- The Crystal Variation, including novels Crystal Soldier, Crystal Dragon, and Balance of Trade, by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller is currently on-sale at the Kindle store.  Pretty good, for a book which shouldn't have been "suppressed" in the first place.

No, I'm not feeling charitable.

Well.  Snail mail has arrived while I was writing this.  I note a lack of promised checks.

And on that note, I'm for the gym.

Y'all have a nice day.

Comments

[margotinez.livejournal.com]

Sending you a virtual hug. I'm definitely an ocean person (can't call myself a girl) so I recently hung a print of a translucent wave breaking, painted by Vivien Caldwell in Laguna Beach, CA. It is my "escape the room" scene. Hope the day gets better.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[amm-me.livejournal.com]

Ooh, look at all that white tummy floof! Cautiously - does Sprite become a hand trap with four sets of pointy enz as soon as you start to skritch?

Best wishes on getting a virtual trip to the seaside. You know Emily Dickinson's poem on prairies?

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee.
One clover, and a bee -- and revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.

So what's the minimum essence of the sea? The wind? The smell? The light?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Sprite likes to have her belly rubbed; she purrs and pushes air with her paws. Trooper's of much the same mind -- any love is good love, with apologies to the Rascals -- but he will occasionally capture the hand that skritches, bring it up tenderly to rest just under his chin, and gaze soulfully into your face. Belle does not offer belly; I don't think Belle likes to be upside down, come to think of it, even on her own.

Scrabble, now. You don't want to touch Scrabble's belly. Really.

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

For a quick trip, try a webcam! Let's see... Maine seaside webcams gives me a whole list. And the first on the list is

http://www.maineharbors.com/camindex.htm (http://www.maineharbors.com/camindex.htm)

Which has a bunch. Just click and enjoy.