What's Up Wednesday

This week...

My Current WIP (Work in Progress): Last week wasn't as productive as I had hoped. I'm working hard to fill in the missing gap and getting on with the story.

Quote of the Week:  "Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later." ~ Og Mandino

What I'm Reading: I started "Her Other Secret" by HelenKay Dimon last night. This the first in the Whitaker Island suspense series. 

Random Thoughts:  We've been having a lot of rainy days lately. I'm telling myself rain is better than snow, but I'd rather have it be sunny.

Random Photo of the Week:

                    My first attempt at homemade cinnamon swirl bread. It came out really well.

Sisyphus and Me

Not much of a post today. I'm feeling a bit like Sisyphus forever rolling the boulder up the hill only to have it roll back down again and again.

I'm still, yes still, struggling to fill in the gap I found in the current manuscript I'm in the process of revising. I thought I'd figured what needed to be written to fill in the space, but it turns out the idea wasn't as feasible as I'd originally thought.

I've asked my critique partner for help brainstorming ideas that will get the gap filled and the story flowing again. We'll see how that goes.

I've definitely learned one thing from this whole thing -- I will never skip over a section of a story where I'm not sure how I'll get from point A to point B to continue writing the rest of  the book.

This I know for sure...

Am I the only person who thinks pumpkin flavored everything this time of the year is getting out of hand?

I love the flavor of pumpkin and indulge in pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, pumpkin butter, pumpkin pancakes, waffles, and muffins throughout October and into the holidays.

But pumpkin flavored hummus, pretzels, Oreos, cereal (Special K, Cheerios, and Frosted Mini Wheats immediately come to mind), and candy bars (Kit Kat for example) are a bit much.

And thought of pumpkin flavored Spam and pumpkin flavored peanut butter. Ick! Definitely not something I will ever try.

What's Up Wednesday

This week...

My Current WIP (Work in Progress):  A number of unexpected things popped up last week that took over my writing time. I should have a much more productive week this week.

Quote of the Week: "The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments." ~ Gustave Flaubert

What I'm Reading: I started reading "How to Love a Duke in Ten Days" by Kerrigan Byrne last weekend. It's the first book in the new Devil You Know series. 

Random Thoughts: Like most females, I'm not a fan of bugs. The picture below is of a bug on the door of my office building last week. It was all I could do to open the door and scoot inside.

Random Photo of the Week:

                                     I was afraid it would fly off at me if I moved the door.

October PSA

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. (I realize I'm a day early.) I wanted to take a moment and ask everyone who is 40 years old or older or has a history of breast cancer in their family to please schedule their mammogram.

Even if you don't have a history of it in your family, it's important that you get screened. One of my older sisters went for her first mammogram and it was discovered that she had breast cancer. Luckily it was stage one so she just had to have a lumpectomy and radiation treatments. Prior to my sister's diagnosis, there was no incidence of breast cancer in my family. Just because there's no current history, doesn't mean it can't happen to you.

Please take a moment and schedule your screening. It's well worth the fifteen minutes or so of discomfort once a year.

This I know for sure...

As I mentioned in previous posts, I've been having trouble writing new scenes for the book I'm currently revising/editing for a section that I forgot I skipped over when I wrote the original draft.

In an effort to get ideas and words flowing again, I've started building puzzles on end of the dining room table we don't use for meals. Working on jigsaw puzzles keeps me busy, but allows my brain to wander.

I put on music and work on the puzzle. It's helped me come up with two new scenes and a general outline of what still needs to be written to fill the missing section. I think I might continue to work on puzzles even after I finish the revisions/edits on this manuscript. It's a good way to brainstorm when I'm stuck.