Archive | December 2020

Happy New Year’s Eve!

Dec31

My son has been busy making a computer game. I’ve been busy writing. Ended up with over 7,000 words yesterday, and had dinner and played games with my daughter and SIL last night.

I believe I forgot to blog yesterday! We had 3″ of rain yesterday.

Under tornado watch this morning and flash flood warnings.

I’ve written 102,000 words on 5 different books since Dec 9th. But I need to finish one up.

I decided to change the title of Dangerous Liaisons to Primal Desire because I have a cover for it and because I was afraid Deadly Liaisons would be too similar to the working title. I’m now at 57K on Primal Desire. Yay!

Tomorrow I should be starting on the new white wolf book (deadline book), David Davis’s story. But it will be New Year’s, so I might still work on Primal Desire. My son leaves on Sunday, so I’ll probably start the white wolf book then. Then we are back to our regular programming and I’m back to taking care of my granddaughter a couple of days a week, etc!

Okay, I’m off to work on writing before I have to stop and do other things.

Happy New Year’s Eve!

Terry

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River Otters

Dec29

We actually had some in one of our pounds when I first moved here. Very curious creatures, playful. I was walking my two dogs and they were fascinated with them. I took these at one of the zoos. Dallas, I think.

We’ve been busy working or playing games or eating. Need to exercise more. lol! My son is working from home, I’m working from home, my son-in-law and daughter are off this week. I’m still averaging 5000 + words a day. I’m trying to figure out my next strategy and my next scene before I tackle an assassin and my word count. I started playing the RPG Baldur–already died in the process. Better strategy next time!

I have to fight 5 of these assassins to move on to the next main quest, but they’re 1400 words a piece and I’ve taken down only one assassin so far. I don’t use up all the time allotted to get rid of the beasties. I write as fast as I can and move on to the next. So no breaks and it makes it hard to write that many words all at once. I tend to tackle small word monsters so I can take breaks to let the dogs out, but still finish quests and have fun.

Off to work!

Have a great day!

Terry

“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
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Chickadee Art

Dec27

I hardly see the chickadees sit for any length of time to get a good shot. This one was waiting on a dove to vacate the feeder. They are so tiny and move so fast.

Hope you all are staying safe! Looking forward to a better new year in the future, but it will take some time to get there. And if tons of people refuse to get the vaccine, then we’re going to have a rougher time of it ahead. But maybe those of us who do want it will get it sooner than we’re hoping for. I always try to look at the bright side of things.

Off to battle more monsters with words. I’ve already written 1300, ended up with 6600 words yesterday, and that’s after having fun with the kids too. I’m about halfway done on Dangerous Liaisons!

Off to work I go!

Terry

“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
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The Day After Christmas

Dec26

Flip-flopping between stories, but I’m having fun fighting monsters. I fought the wrong one for a quest this morning though, so didn’t get the quest item. Same monster, but had to fight it in a different area. *sigh* But I got word count, and that’s all that really matters.

I loved these guys’ head decorations. Can you imagine carrying them around all day?

So I’ve been switching from Dangerous Liaisons (vampire adult), Bite of the Vampire (YA), A Date with a Wolf (novella, Silence of the Wolf), Warrior Elf (book 3 in the World of Elves, YA), Dawn of the Jaguar (novella), You Had Me at Cougar, to Bear in Mind. I don’t work on all of them every day, sometimes one, sometimes two, sometimes three of them when I can’t figure out where I am going with another. Even on Christmas Day I managed 2100 words. My normal word count goal is 2,000 words, so I never figured getting that much done. We were busy from about 9 am until 11 pm. So it’s been really a help to me to keep focused when I do have time. A Date of the Wolf is nearly done, Dawn of the Jaguar is halfway done.

I’m off to write. No running around madly for after Christmas sales. I only did it once years ago, won’t ever do it again.

Hope you stay safe and have had a great holiday!

Terry

“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
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Merry Christmas!

Dec25

Wishing you and yours a happy holiday and health in the coming year!

Thanks to all my friends, fans, and family for being part of my world and making it so much better!

Merry Christmas!

Terry

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Merry Christmas Eve

Dec24
A bird at the Waco Zoo

Merry Christmas Eve! Best wishes to all. Stay safe! Take care!

Terry

“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
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Birds Together

Dec23

I took this photo of unknown birds at a zoo, one watching the other to see if he gets something.

I’m still getting some word count, watching Mandalorian with my son, and we’re taking walks at night. He finished his programming for work and is programming a game now.

I’m off to fight monsters in a battle to dominate my writing! He’s next up. I was shooting for 20K on A Date with a Wolf. I’m at 24K+ and I’ve added a couple of thousand words to 4 other stories also. It’s fun.

Have a great day!!

Terry

“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
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A Walk in the Wetlands

Dec22
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We had a fun walk in the wetlands with my son, daughter, and granddaughter. Someone had decorated some native youpan holly trees with Christmas balls, so I had to take a picture. It was beautiful weather, perfect for a walk.

I should have taken pictures of them, but there are a lot of low bridges to raise the path over high water areas when there is some and every time we came to one, we had to slow down and creep across the bridges looking for trolls, being quiet of course, and then I said, “We’ve got to run!”

And then with her little hand in mine, we’d race across the rest of the bridge. By the second bridge, Keira was ready to run and would cry out the warning. So that was the game the whole time. So much fun.

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Fall leaves in the wetlands

We’ve been playing games as a whole family at night, and one that we played was Drakon, I think the name was. That was fun. Keira and I won the first night, gathering all the coins. My son-in-law sicced the dragon after me several times last night, or I would have won again. Karma–my daughter won instead. lol Then after they went home, my son and I were watching Mandalorian. Love the baby Yoda.

My granddaughter was drawing primitive pictures of wolves and my daughter said she’s around her grandmother too much. lol

Okay, I’m off to slay monsters and get some word count before little one is here and that’s the end of that idea.

Have a super day!!

Terry

“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
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Jurassic World

Dec21

We went to a dinosaur drive-thru yesterday, had a lot of fun with it! I was just playing with the pictures I took.

We’re off to walk. The problem with the holidays and entertaining is weight gain. lol

Have a great day!

Terry

“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
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Bird in a Christmas Wreath!

Dec20

Photo of a bird that shares an enclosure with a Dik-Dik. I don’t remember the name of the big bird. The Christmas wreath texture is from Daily Textures.

My son arrived safely with his dog after 15 hours of driving. Mishka is on my lap and my dogs are waiting for my son to get up–they’ve all been fed and taken outside, birds fed. I’m about to battle more monsters for writing goals. I think I managed 7,000 words yesterday. I reached 22K on A Date with a Wolf, and added more to Dangerous Liaisons, another vampire romance, at 27,704, and Warrior Elf (YA), 16K, and Bite of the Vampire (YA), 18,600. I added 6K to the novella, but on the other books a few hundred each. That’s what’s fun about the battling monsters. Once I have my word goal plus on the deadline book, I can add more content to other stories not on deadline to get some more word count in.

We are going on a drive to see a special exhibit this afternoon–drive through, more on it later, and having lunch at home and unfortunately shopping for a few items at the grocery store. He’s making a curry rice dish and forgot his curry powder, his grinder for coffee and I figure I’ll pick up some cabbage and carrots to make corned beef and cabbage for everyone one of these days.

I forgot that Miskha is a woofer. Not barking loudly, but I’m finding myself shushing her constantly while my son is still sleeping.

I’m off to write before he gets up and we’re on our way to the store.

Have a great day!

Terry

“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
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