Diana Gabaldon interviews

I love all things Diana Gabaldon...I watched some interviews she did and she is so funny!  Her books are an inspiration to me.  I absolutely love Claire and Jaime...her two main characters in her Outlander series she's written.  I can only dream of being able to write any story half as good as that....

Changed my mind

I do that a lot...had a friend read my two first pages and she said it was too much...a  little over the top, so I'm sticking with what I've got, just added a few minor details.  I think it's better.  I hope so.  :)

Remember...

     Today is a day of remembering....9/11 happened 9 years ago.  My daughter Shannon was in 2nd grade.  Trying to explain everything to her was hard when she was little, but we answered whatever questions she had the best we could.  It's hard to explain something like that to a kid when you don't even understand it yourself. 
    
Another thing I thought about today that I had forgotten...I'm trying to write for everybody else.  I suffer from  'people pleaser' syndrome.  I put the first page of my manuscript on a website to be critiqued.  The first review I got wasn't good.  Said the idea wasn't original enough and they didn't like it.  After that, I proceeded to completely rewrite my first page to make it more exciting.  Rewriting the first page usually translates into rewriting everything else too.  I even thought about completely rewriting the whole thing. 

Then I remembered an interview Rob Pattinson did while he was promoting one of the Twilight movies.  He said if he tried to please everybody he would go insane.  All he could do was what he liked and thought was good and if people like it great and if not, that's ok too.  That's what I need to do.  If I post something...everybody's not going to like it.  I know that, but ...I want it to be the best it can be, so if I need to change something I will, but at the same time...I need to remember the story that I like and stay with it.

Currently reading:

I'm reading "The Help" right now.  Great book, but I keep getting side tracked with life and haven't picked it back up.  I've also started "Water for Elephants".  I wanted to read it before the movie comes out with my favorite guy, Rob Pattinson.

Thinking about shaking up the first page of my novel.....hmm....

I'm thinking about changing the situation in the very beginning of my novel....right now, it seems a little boring...but I've been told it's because I've read it so much, it doesn't effect me any more.  I think I'm going to put the first page I have up here first and then write a different one and see what people think....

New picture

Here's an updated picture of us at Melissa and LaBrone's wedding.

Red head

In the picture to the left, I'm the red-head on the right. That's my life-long buddy, Dane, on the left and my other life-long buddy, Sam, in the middle. Love those girls!