Archive for the 'THE RUNNING LIFE' Category
June 24, 2008
SOMETIMES …
A POV change is needed … and voila — there the road lies.
I was stuck with something in my plot. My hero just wanted to be somebody other than who I was telling him to be. So I let him get above it all, in a bush plane … and whammo … that was it! Turns out he needed to fly. He needed to see things from above. And he’d been trying to tell me all along.
June 23, 2008
HOME RUN …
Almost home with my current deadline. DH is almost boarding his plane back from South Africa.
And I ran almost an hour … hot, but good. In the woods. Hey, I almost feeling like doing the dishes — but not quite.
* I am planning on giving my website a complete overhaul, a fresh new look — so if there are any author sites out there that really grab you, please tell me. And let me know why they work for you.
You know where to find me …
June 12, 2008
WAY FINDERS
The Inukshuk I found in my forest today.
For those who might ask, Inuksuit were originally directional markers left by the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic as they traveled across the barren tundra — a vast landscape where permafrost leaves few natural landmarks. The carefully-balanced stones have different meanings, and are a language of navigation with roots deep in the Inuit culture. The markers also signify safety, hope and friendship. They say that someone has walked this way, that you are not alone.
The inukshuk concept has been embraced by local hikers in these hills and woods, a form of impromptu art … a strange urge people seem to have, to pick stones up from the moss, feel their heft, and temperature and shape … to balance them carefully in often very complex ways. To tell someone they were here.
The sculptures stand for a day or so, then they are gone.
And to come across one in the silent, dripping forest feels somehow …. magical. Like a story.
June 11, 2008
Can YOU SEE HER COMING?
A little yellow spot, one prop, heading straight on over Green Lake …
And thar she goes …. only the sky her limit.
A perfect lift-off coming on top of today’s adrenaline-releasing run. My new idea for Silhouette Romantic Suspense achieved lift-off today as well. Now to see if those wings hold ….
May 24, 2008
HAVE POLES, WILL TRAVEL
T’was a glorious day for ‘moose hoofs’ as one of my UK Nordic Walking connections calls it — jogging with the poles, in this case up the hills to get the heart pumping. One hour. And that’s Lost Lake down there between the trees. The perfect spot to mull over my new plot.
The Canadian Olympic cross country ski team will be coming into our Callaghan Valley to train this summer (at the new venue for the Nordic events of the 2010 Winter Olympics). A section of trail through the woods has been paved, upon which they will skate with poles. I plan to find out what they use on the tips of their poles that enables them to propel forward without slipping on rain and fine dust and gravel, because the rubber feet I use on my Excel tips slide irritatingly … which is why I’ve been sticking to unpaved trails, using the naked graphite tips (I think they are graphite)
Any suggestions or tips (um… sorry) would me most welcome!!!
May 19, 2008
And then there was green
Just like that. Honest. And then the golfers were out. The daylight hours are increasing, well, daily, and things just GROW. Fast. I love this time of year. You can literally feel the energy in the earth, smell it, taste it. It makes you want to keep pace somehow. I can only imagine what it must be like further north at the moment.
I hope this energy carries into my new proposal 
And on the writing note … a fabulous review on SEDUCING THE MERCENARY here.
Thank you to Robyn, and to Kimber An!
