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Cairns: Man-Made Stacks of Stones

Aug8

Cairns is Scottish Gaelic in origin. It’s interesting that everywhere I go now, I see stacks of stones like this. These were actually in the Highlands of Scotland.

Bridge of stones.

A Highlander of stones.

Heather in bloom amidst the stones.

Colorful flowers, cairns, loch, mountains and mist. Scotland the Beautiful. Cairns have actually been around since ancient times.

Okay, I goofed off soooo much yesterday, I didn’t get word count. ugh. So today, I’ve got to make up for it.

Have a wonderful day, and if you have a few rocks lying around your yard, get creative! 🙂

Terry

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

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Fog

Mar18

Out of the mist comes…whatever your imagination can dream up.

I went to a St. Patrick’s Day party last night and won a towel with luck of the Irish written all over it. I love it. Since I have several ancestors who came from Ireland, seems appropriate! I couldn’t decide whether to go because I was finishing up edits on Viking to turn in to my critique partner. Then I need to work on more of hers. But since I finished mine, and another chapter of hers, I decided I needed to get out and meet people.

We had fun. Played Bingo and had to ask everyone questions to learn who had done what or had something on the bingo card–like flown in a helicopter, or had more than one cat. NO one had more than one cat. But I still won! And I took some book marks and some Advance Reading Copies (ARCs) of one of my books and autographed a couple, one for a couple’s librarian daughter and another for a romance reader. It was fun for me and fun for them.

I was glad I took off from working and just plain went. Plus, by meeting people, talking to them, you never know when something they might do or say could end up in a story! lol

Have a wonderful day!!

Terry

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

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Shadows and Reflections

Aug25

Shadow on Hill and Reflection in Water

Shadows and Reflections on Water

When I was in Scotland, I took hundreds of pictures, until my battery died, and I was so disappointed. I couldn’t take pictures again until after we returned from an island, and I never had pictures of the island or the ruins we saw there. Ugh.

But I’ve never shared tons of these pictures because I had so many, shared lots, and then that was it. So as I was looking over some of them, I found some interesting shots.

These are shadows reflected on the hills from another hill, and both the hills and shadows reflected in the water. The water is so glass like, it’s hard to tell in the bottom shot that it was actually a reflection and not just ground.

But aren’t they beautiful?

I thought they turned out nicely, considering we were in motion at the time. 🙂

I love water, so take lots of pictures of water. I also love hills and mountains and trees. Since Scotland has it all, I had fun!

But I also want to make my stories as accurate as possible. One of the things I wanted to see was trees for wolves to run in. But so much of the landscape is uninhabited, that they could really run all over the place and never be seen. 🙂 <3

Terry

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In the Middle of Edits, but…

Jan14

I wasn’t going to blog today, but I was checking for preorder sales on Kissing the Highlander and saw we had a couple of sales for Itunes! I hadn’t looked for the link today yet, but it’s now available there.

Kissing the Highlander:

I’m not sure what they’re supposed to be called, so I’m going to call them all kinds of names:

Apple/Itunes/Ibooks

This was a baron’s chamber at one of the Scottish castles. Nice view of the water. His wife had her bed chamber at the other end of the hall. Maybe a sitting area between them?

Okay, now, I’m behind on writing on A SEAL Wolf Diving for Trouble, of course, because A Silver Wolf Christmas edits have to be done and turned in. I’m over halfway done. Once I finish these, I’ll reread the book again. It’s kind of hard sometimes because there all kinds of changes through some sections, and so it’s easy to read the wrong thing. If I could just accept changes and reject changes, it would work. But they want to make sure I addressed all the issues so I can’t accept and reject changes. They want to see what I’ve changed.

I had some fun with the puppies last night. I’ve been getting them to go into their crate at night, giving them a treat. I didn’t used to, and they were fine with being in it. But I wanted to give them an extra incentive of going on on their own. So Max, 6 months old, is great about going in and sitting, waiting for his treat. But I have to be right up to the crate and then he goes in. My cue is: Bedtime, kennel.

Tanner, 11 weeks, just wants the treat, and usually, I have to lift him or give him a little push to get him inside, and then he sits with Max and they get their treats.

But last night, I said, “Bedtime, kennel,” and Max raced to the kennel. It was the cutest thing. He sat inside and wagged his tail. Course, I couldn’t get there quick enough because I hadn’t expected him to do that, and Tanner was underfoot as I was trying to get there, wanting his treat. So Max started to come out. But I said again, “Bedtime, kennel, and he whipped around and sat right back down. For the first time ever, Tanner joined him and sat next to him without me forcing the issue.

Yesterday too, I usually have them on my lap, desk chair sleeping while I’m writing. They sleep, and I don’t have to worry about them getting up and wandering and having accidents. But I wanted to begin to train them that they can have an afternoon nap in one of their beds. So it was a trial of patience. I put one in the bed, and then the other. Tanner would get out. I put him back in the bed and Max got out. I put them in the separate beds next to each other, Max got out. Tanner finally got it and stayed in the bed. Max kept wanting in my lap, but after maybe the fifth time of returning him to the other bed, he finally climbed into bed with Tanner and they slept.

Yes! Pumping fist. I AM the alpha! Sometimes I think I’m losing the battle. LOL

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Okay, I’m back to edits! Have a lovely day! Oh, shoot, it’s Wednesday and that means garbage day. Usually get it out at oh-dark-thirty. Can’t believe it’s Wednesday already!!!

So it was warmer out and my neighbor was taking his garbage out, so we had to do more socialization training. Max was licking his sandaled feet. That is progress.

🙂

Terry
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Kissing the Highlander at Barnes and Noble!

Jan13

Misty and Cold–not sure what the green stuff is that the farmer planted but it makes it look like spring. It isn’t. It’s cold. 🙂 I think we had snow showers/freezing rain at some point. It didn’t stick, but it didn’t feel like rain. It was too dark to see on one of my jaunts outside with the puppies.

Max and Tanner

They really have been angels. No chewing on…well, mostly, no chewing on stuff they shouldn’t. I put my wool coat on the coffee table, gloves, hat, so I can easily grab them and run the puppies outside. When they have to go, they have to go. I’ve taken to making them sit on my chair while I get bundled up. That way I don’t have to worry about them. So they had been playing with an empty birdseed sack and they had gotten really quiet. I stopped writing to see what they were up to. They had pulled down my coat and hat. Tanner was happily chewing on my hat. Max was lying on top of my coat, chewing on his chewstick. Ack.

Sooooo, they’re mostly good. And no accidents inside for several days. So we’re doing good.

Just wanted to share for our Nook readers, which I’m one, that Kissing the Highlander is now available for preorders at B&N!

I received first edits on Silver Wolf Christmas. Which means: one seemingly insignificant change can change EVERYTHING. Sooo that always means first edits are a bear. Lots of gnashing of teeth. I read through the comments last night, but I’m not a night person, so trying to tackle it wasn’t going to happen. It doesn’t mean that there are tons of changes, but just one change can affect tons of stuff in a mss. One time, they wanted me to put a kiss sooner in the book. I thought, no problem. But guess what, folks. When the hero and heroine have had that first kiss, it changes everything between them. The dynamics are different. They’re not anticipating it any longer. Been there, done that. AND you have to add new conflict to keep them from going further. Yes, I’m murder on my hero and heroine.

I write romance. What can I say?

Anyway, I always tackle the simple stuff first, but even that can change everything. Sometimes, I say no. That the comments made are wrong. That the way they’re suggesting the change will ruin the whole story. I used to roll over and play dead. Whatever my editors wanted. But when they started suggesting radical changes that would have destroyed the characterization, the black moment, the whole point of the book, I said no. I couldn’t do it.

Some battles aren’t worth fighting. Some changes are worth making. And some, absolutely not.

*sigh* And that means that I’m going to get WAY behind on SEAL Wolf Diving for Trouble. I was 900 words behind yesterday, which considering I was 6,000 words behind is not bad. But I need 3400 words today and with doing revisions on the other book, probably not happening.

Despite not wanting to even look at it this morning, I’ve got my sword in hand and I’m going to face the battle. You have to do it, you know. It doesn’t matter if you don’t want to. You just have to get into fighting stance and tackle it, one step at a time. And then, it’s just like word count. It happens!

“BIG sigh”

The puppies got me up at 4 am. I’m a morning person, but NOT that much of a morning person. I’ll be glad when they can last through the night and wake at a more reasonable hour. Like 5. 🙂

Have a super great Tuesday!!!

And may you win on all your battle fronts today! Or even better? Not have to face any!

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