Heart Like a Dog

The Good, the Bad, and the Oh My God of living with dogs!

The Writer’s Process Blog Tour

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I was asked to do the Writer’s Process Blog Tour by Linda from 2 Brown Dawgs.

I turned her down.  I figured no-one wants to know how I come up with the silly posts I write.  Besides, I pretty much told everyone most of my ideas come from the dogs on a walk.

Then Pamela from Something Wagging This Way Comes invited me to do the tour.  Pamela indicated I was writing on a couple of different fronts and she’d be interested to know what my process was.

Hmmm, I never thought to do the tour about the book I was writing, but I felt super bad, I mean I’d already turned Linda down and I just didn’t feel right.

So I chatted Linda up and she said she was perfectly fine with it.  So here I am doing the Writer’s Process Blog Tour, but being the little rebel that I am, I’m going to write about my book writing process.

What am I working on?

I’m currently working on my first book, or do you call it a novel?  Whatever it’s called the damn thing is taking forever!!   It’s a comedy/mystery/action book set in the beach town of Emerald Isle, North Carolina.

I love walking on the beach with my dogs.

Emerald Isle is on the Outer Banks, we had such a lovely time there.

Why do I write what I do?

The story just started rolling around in my head.  Sort of wishful thinking I guess, since I love Emerald Isle and would love to live their some day.  Imagining what your life will be like is the first step to making it happen, isn’t that what they say?

How does my writing process work?

I started this book close to two years ago for NaNoWriMo and worked hard core at it for the full month.  At the end of the month, I had about 36,000 words.  It burned me out bad, and I put the book down and didn’t pick it up again for about 16 months.

But a few months ago it started rolling around in my head again.  I feel like my most creative time is early morning, just after I’ve walked the dogs and poured myself an Irish coffee.  I usually pick up where I stopped and it seems to come naturally.  There are times though when I have a thought about an entirely different scene and then I just go with it  For me the natural progression of the story is just flowing.

BUT it still remains to be seen whether I can get it published or not. 🙂

That’s the end of my tour, but in order to keep it going I’m supposed to tag three more bloggers.  I believe that most of you have already completed this tour, and my friend from The Dog Park said she was interested in participating.  

I love The Dog Park, I think I’ve been reading it for close on two years now.  I love how she calls her dog, Our Best Friend (or OBF), when she wrote about how worried she is that OBF will get sick and she won’t have the money to pay for treatment, I knew exactly how she felt.  When she shared that she was getting a divorce and had to break it to her children, my heart broke for her.  She has a way of writing that totally makes you feel like you’re sitting down with your best friend over coffee, sharing your deepest, darkest secrets.  

Yes, I really love The Dog Park.

Only she wanted me to tag her other blog, Opinons Opinions, but here’s the kicker, she hasn’t written in this blog in like two years, so I can’t really tell you what it’s about.  I can only guess it’s opinionated.  

Oh AND she won’t let me share any pictures either.  But according to Pamela at Something Wagging, people have a tendency to look like their dogs.  If that’s the case, I’m guessing she looks like this.

OBF

OBF

Although I’m thinking she doesn’t have quite so much fur. 🙂

Troll-In the Dungeons

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“Harry was just helping himself to a baked potato when Professor Quirrell came sprinting into the hall, his turban askew and terror on his face.  Everyone stared as he reached Professor Dumbledore’s chair, slumped against the table, and gasped, “Troll – in the dungeons – thought you ought to know.””

He then sank to the floor in a dead faint.  (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J. K. Rowling, 1997)

Okay so there’s not really a troll in my dungeon.

Actually I don’t really have a dungeon.  I do have a basement, but there’s no troll in there, only my mom.

Unless there’s something she’s not telling me, there’s no troll.

I know what you’re thinking.  What in the hell does that have to do with a dog blog?  Has she lost her freaking mind?

I suppose the answer to that would depend upon who you spoke to.

This post actually has nothing to do with trolls or dungeons.  It all has to do with our wood pile.  I just wasn’t sure you’d read the post if I told you what was in the wood pile.

The story goes like this.

Thursday after work I took the dogs for a walk and Hubby went outside to cut some wood.  When we came back from our walk Hubby said “Look what I found in the wood pile.”

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Hubby said he lifted up the tarp covering the wood and there it was.  He poked it with a stick and it slithered under the wood pile.  Yesterday when he lifted up the tarp, it was back again.

Hubby says it’s a Garter Snake.

I said it needs to go.

Hubby says it won’t mess with people or pets, he also says it’s eating spiders.

Well then.  As long as it’s eating spiders, it can stay.  As long as it leaves me and my dogs alone. I mean really, what’s one snake vs how many spiders in a pile of wood?

I’m really not so worried about it bothering me.  If you’re a betting person, odds are pretty good that I will never approach the wood pile again.

I’m not so sure about the dogs.  They keep going over there and sniffing.

Every time they head out that way I tense up.  But I grab my camera too. 🙂  If they do discover it, hopefully I’ll have pictures.  Unless I’m too busy screaming and running.

Would you leave a Garter Snake in your wood pile?  Would you go near a wood pile with a Garter Snake?  Inquiring minds want to know.

When the Universe Smacks You Upside Your Head

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Sometimes when you have the best of intentions and think you are prepared for whatever comes your way, the universe seems to have a different idea for you.

Friday night after I had finished packing everything for our trip, I sat down to get my Candy Crack fix and my laptop wouldn’t turn on.  I checked the plug and the grounding prong had broken off. Drats!  Well Hubby will know what to do when he gets up I thought, and took out the little Chromebook I won at Blog Paws.  Thank you very much by the way, BP!

When Hubby woke up he said, “Babe, it’s fried.”

“But you can fix it, right?  I mean we just need to find a Best Buy and buy a new charging plug.”

“I think it’s the laptop and not the power cord, because the laptop should try and turn on but you’re getting nothing.”

I took a deep breath, it’ll be okay.  I have the Chromebook, my mini iPad, my camera and my phone.  I’ll make this work.

About half way to our destination I took out my camera to take a photo, as I snapped the picture the low battery symbol flashed and I realized with a sick jolt to my stomach, the charger was at home!

Well turns out you can find a cheap ($10) charger on Amazon BUT buying a universal charger at Wal-Mart is $30.  My little point and shoot camera is 7 or 8 years old, and I’m not spending $30 for a charger I have at home.

I took a deep breath, it’s okay, I have my Chromebook, my iPad and my phone.  Except the iPad and the phone don’t connect to the Chromebook so any pictures I take have to be e-mailed to myself and downloaded (which I haven’t figured out yet) so right now the pictures you’re getting are taken with the Chromebook.

I figured you won’t care, because they’re still beautiful pictures.

Last night's sunset.

Last night’s sunset.

Sampson Why are you looking at me?  You should be looking at the beautiful view.

Sitting enjoying the morning view, I’ve decided I’m going to try and listen to the Universe and take it easy. Maybe read some blogs this afternoon or work on my book.  But this morning, I’m going to take the dogs for a nice walk in the country and just enjoy the beauty of nature.

Are you in tune with the Universe or does she have to slap you upside your head like she does me?

This is the Monday Mischief blog hop hosted by Alfie’s Blog, Snoopy’s Dog Blog and My Brown Newfies.

 

 

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