Welcome to my blog Upstate Girl, (a.k.a Follow Your Bliss Part II), I am an independently published author. This blog is all about writing and the stuff that inspires me to write, the joys and obstacles that come along with the writer's life, and my fascination with the psychology of people and what makes them tick...the human condition, as is...and my love for words, playing with them and making sense of them...and I throw in a few photos from my acre of the world just to make things pretty...sometimes there are things I have no words for, only pictures will do.

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© Laura J. Wellner), unless otherwise noted, please be a peach, if you'd like to use my work for a project or you just love it and must have it, message me and we'll work out the details...it's simple...JUST ASK, please.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Almost done?

No...but getting there...and then I found one more, hiding in the weeds underneath the hollyhocks...Just like my manuscript..."White Light" is once again haunting me, I made one small change, and it caused a chain reaction...one sentence in chapter 3 received extra polish during the spell/grammar check phase, which caused a second sentence to speak up that it too needed a change...then a paragraph...so after all that, I back tracked to read the whole section to check the flow, found one or two more things, that lead to three and four, and then, yes...it leaked into chapter 4...but now it's done (ya think?)

Maybe...

It was worth it...I feel energized...not at a loss, I have more confidence in the manuscript because of what I've done today...

It's my special way of seeing. I could look at him all day...and then draw all night the things that I have seen...precious flesh, fascinating bones...he's just a man, but so much more...structure and spirit...the things about him that I love.

4 comments:

Pat said...

What a love letter! If I were twentytwo again, I would fly!

Pat said...

Hi again,
I check this sight out quite often, so I can get my kitten fill and I thought that you might enjoy it.
http://www.theittybittykittycommittee.com/

It is a cat shelter for Tacoma/Seattle area. The babies are So sweet!

Laura J. Wellner (author pseudonym Laura J. W. Ryan) said...

OMG those kittens are ADORABLE! I miss having a wee one...but I know the time will come when one will "show up"...that's the thing about living in the country, folks see a barn and dump their unwanted kittens there...it's a matter of time someone little and furry will come to our door...

Tonya Vollertsen said...

Your sense of patterns and textures is so amazing. love these depictions. Wonderful!