The Last Wizard - L.E. Buck

I wrote this book in 2005. It doesn't seem like its been that long ago, time is flying by me. I met another author on Facebook, they were in my Castle Age Army and through a mutual friend we found out about each other.

Budo Von Stahl is his name and his book "The Perception of Evil" is very good. Budo has his book on Kindle. Which is soooo easy to get. You can get Kindle free for your computer off of Amazon.com. This is what I did. I like getting my books so fast.

So, anyway Budo wanted to know where to get my book. I told him Kindle, unknown to me my publisher stopped doing the Kindle and they have their own website to download my book. It was a journey to find where my book could be bought. But, I did it.

I really need to get back to writing. I long to get back to writing fantasy fiction but I need to tell my father's story. Its very hard for me, I am torn about telling all the truth. My mother was a fruitcake, do I tell how bad? Do I tell half truths, do I leave some things out? I wrestle with this and think "I should tell it like it was" and let the chips fall. Is this a good thing to think? I have hundreds of questions but no answers.

Sometimes, I feel that someone else should do the book. Take all my memories and write it, someone else would be less emotional about it. But, that's putting off my responsibility onto someone else, that's a chessecake move.

So, I ponder and flounder about it. Phooey, I need to get back to writing. I'll take it one day at a time.

take care :)

Responsibility

Kenju (Judy) had a post the other day about businesses that go on the net to see what people say about them.


It made me stop and think about the HUGE responsibility that I, as a blogger/writer have. I must be honest above all else in my writing, I must try and see both sides of things. But most of all I must not use my writing as a punching bag to hurt others.



For so many of you, this is not a problem. For me, I started blogging to share my family history and the history of my town and the people in it. Along with this, comes people that have done bad things. So, I will try to be a little more fairer, more understanding of others feelings.

Author Amanda McKittrick Ros

I was flipping thru my June copy of Smithsonian when on the last page (and its called The Last Page) the title caught my eye "Words to Remember".

The article is about an Irish female writer whose first book was published in 1898, she wrote three novels and many poems. She was highly criticized, for what some said, was an abuse of the english language.

Being a writer, I had to read on. I thought she had a great descriptive attitude. Here is an example: for eyes she calls them "globes of glare", legs were "bony supports", sweat was "globules of liquid lava".

Sounds pretty creative to me but to other authors she wasn't. Mark Twain said her first book was an unintentional humorous novel. Two of my favorite authors, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis would have contests reading her books out loud, the winner was the person who kept a straight face the longest.

Her last book she named her characters after fruits, Lord Raspberry, Sir Plum etc. She passed away in 1939. I think if she were alive today, she would fit right in. I mean, we do have veggie tales, that's only a taste away from fruit.

I think she was born before her time. I wonder what Twain, Tolkien and Lewis would say about authors today. I wonder if they would like my book, problay not. Twain would say "hogwash, do a book about a modern boy." Tolkein would say, "be more descriptive." Lewis would say, "more animals, you need more animals".

Here's to a good week for everyone :)

Inside This Author's Mind

This is an old oil painting picture of me, I was in my early thirties.
Taking a quick break from my manuscript. had to do some research on
my dad's old friend Charles MacNeill, it took awhile and mentally wore
me out because it was very hard to find out about him. I'll share about him in another post.

Have a few new ideas for a fiction book, I love writing fiction because it
comes out of my head and I don't have to research that much. I got an email from my publisher. They are doing a new thing where you make a
video about your book and they put it on YouTube. Not my cup of tea.

I was thinking earlier, i am a creative person and I love writing because
I am not in the public eye. I don't do book signings and I don't write to be in the top ten. I write because I want to share my stories, if one person enjoys what I have written then I am happy and my goal is complete.

I am a simple person that enjoys what she has been given. In my earlier days I tried runway modeling (what a bust that was), was in 3 differant singing groups and tried acting. None of it was done to become famous, I just had a creative drive in me that wanted to try and find something I felt comfortable with. I found it in writing, for me its like walking around in my favorite pair of shoes, very comfortable.

So, those are my thoughts today, hope everyone is having a good week. I sure have enjoyed reading your posts.