jmgoyder

wings and things

Mar 22

Bliss

by jmgoyder

I was so overcome with a sensation of bliss this morning, as I stepped into my writing room, that my heart skipped madly as if it were Julie Andrews frolicking on various hills in The Sound of Music. The bliss has been so overwhelming that I have only been able to write one paragraph of my new short story because the bliss keeps interrupting my train of thought. So hopefully the bliss will be a little less unruly tomorrow and allow me to think more clearly about this short story and, yes, write it.

One of the main characters is named after my friend at the blog http://50-shades-of-gray-hair.com/
Rhonda gave me permission to borrow bits of her personality for the character in my short story. Julie will be the other main character but I’m only going to use bits of my personality too. In other words, the ‘Rhonda’ and the ‘Julie’ in the story are fictional creatures – ha!

This is going to be great fun as soon as I can turn the bliss down to a low hum.

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Dec 2

Comedy

by jmgoyder

Oh I just can’t stop laughing – I keep bursting into guffaws because of three things:

1. My BFF emailed me twice today to complain that he was getting bombarded with email notifications of my work-in-progress romance novel. His emails are shrill with angst and outrage to have such tripe enter his inbox. I have, of course, apologized and tried to eradicate him from the ‘list’ to no avail. We are having lunch in a couple of weeks so hopefully we can fix this but, in the meantime, I’m quite enjoying torturing him – ha!

2. In the romance novel that I’m editing and revising on the other blog, I thought it best to change Matt’s name to Bob. That’s because, when writing the first draft of this novel last century, I didn’t know a Matt. So now that I do know a real Matt, I thought it best to use that editorial ‘replace’ thing to get Bob into the story. The trouble is that every single time the word ‘matter’ comes up in the novel (with surprising frequency) it gets altered automatically to ‘Bober’ – do you see what I mean?

3. Then, tonight, around an hour ago, I rang and spoke to Anthony and he said, “When am I going to see you?” Argh!

That’s okay. It is fine and he is fine enough now and will probably sleep really well tonight after today’s ordeal.

Me – I am going to laugh myself to sleep!

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Mar 31

What happened to the novella?

by jmgoyder

I just remembered I was supposed to be writing this novella which is in a separate wordpress blog, all cold and lonely due to lack of attention. Not sure why I forgot about it – I must have had too much me-time on my hands (sorry, but what a load of crap that ‘me-time’ post was – cringe and apologies to those who have no me-time!)

So, tomorrow is the first day of April and I plan to finish the novella by the end of the month. You can find the first few chapters at jmgoyderfiction.com

Critics welcome!

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Mar 1

A novella

by jmgoyder

Waaay back in November last year, when I began this ‘wings and things’ blog, I also began a novella but had to temporarily abandon it.

I’m not sure how to make this novella a separate blog from ‘wings and things’ so I would appreciate advice from those of you who are more experienced and know how to create a blog within a blog! I’m a bit technologically challenged so I have tried figuring out the WordPress widgetty thing to no avail.

Anyway, for what it’s worth – here is where I got up to with the novella….

http://jmgoyderfiction.com/about/

I am going to continue it now, as soon as I figure out how to separate it from ‘wings and things’.

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