Didn't Write Today

Yup, you heard me. I didn't write. I woke up this morning with a headache and I thought it would go away on its own after I had coffee. I checked my blood sugar and found out why. My blood sugar was below 70. It didn't say how low it got, but I had a nice, little, red line below my target zone from 12am to 6a. That was a bit scary to see.

Then, I went to the cemetery to plant flowers on my parents grave and afterward, when I got home, went and bought fake succulents for my fairy garden. I still had my headache and it had become worse and my vision was feeling fuzzy. So, I checked my blood sugar...65 and going down. So, I had some orange juice and glucose tabs, 2. Then, I took meds for my headache.

Needless to say, it is almost 10pm, I did no writing. I actually feel like death warmed over. I'm completely exhausted. Stupid diabetes. Hopefully, tomorrow will be better and I will be able to write.

Have a great weekend! 

RESEARCH!

I thought I would do something different with my post and add a Scottish burr to my post, so you can see how it'll be in the book. Sort of, "a taste", a "sampling". So, here it goes;

Just when ye think ye've done enough research...think again. I thought I knew all I had to about Scotland, then when writing about Elspeth and the upcoming Yule Sabbat, I looked in the Green Witch Grimoire (Book of Shadows), what they did for this pagan event, it's pretty much what we do for Christmas. They decorate like we do, tree and all. The only thing different is that there is a ritual that they do and their Christmas carols or Yule carols are the same, but the wording is a "wee bit different."

Anyway, the decorations listed were Holly. Now, Dornoch, Scotland is in the Highlands. Aye, there are Pine trees, and they have deciduous trees (leaf barring), but I wasna sure if Holly grew there. So, here I go again, researching. I ken that if I didna, it would be questioned. So, I looked and looked and looked. Finally, I found it. It did. Good! Elspeth's house can be decorated with it.

By the by, ken means know.  For example, "I dinna ken." "I do not know." Now, I dinna have the burr to the point where ye dinna ken what I'm saying, because their language can be a wee bit difficult and my readers are young adults. So, I pretty much kept it simple, but enough to make it interesting.

Watching Outlander has helped me a lot, as far as, the geography and what grows there, to the housing and what not. I also read the books too. That has helped with the dialect. Like what ye are seeing now.

What ye think? Ye like it or no?

Anyway, I've got to get writing chapter 8 and the Yule Sabbat. I hope ye are enjoying my posts and are getting somewhat of a glimpse as to how it is to be a writer, writing a book.

Till tomorrow! 

Despite all odds I completed chapter 7

Trying to write a chapter with a pulled back is challenging at best. I pulled it this last night, bad enough to where I had to have my hubby help me put my socks on.

So, going to work, wasn't too bad. I managed to make it through the day. Even went out to dinner before coming home to write.

Chapter 7 is a short one, 5 pages long, but it's a funny one at that. Elspeth is hating winter, her mother is scrubbing the floor and working up a sweat, while Elspeth is complaining about winter. She is told to get back to her studies and finds that flowers and their magical powers are boring until she comes across a section where, more or less, you have to treat the flower as though it has feelings. This she finds absolutely hysterical, her mother tries to tell her that's it's not silly, that it's very true.

Toward the end of the chapter, Elspeth begins to see the importance of it. Finds it most interesting in fact. Her mother tells her that it's not so boring after all.

So, now it is 10:56pm I am going to call it a day. As for tomorrow, Chapter 8! Till then, adieu.

I did it again!

You'd think I would have learned by now, but nope. I am a gluten for punishment. Yup. I typed chapter 6 in Microsoft word and it would not 'save as'. I told my husband...again...and he gave me the what for? Did I not listen the last time? I know. I know. I'm my own worst enemy. Thank God it saved for I checked it in the folder on my desktop.

See, a writer's time is fought with technology that doesn't want to work properly. I sometimes wonder if using a regular typewriter and typing it all out...no, wouldn't work, because I self-publish and I would have to eventually have to type it out on the computer to submit it on KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing). It would just be more work. I don't want more work, I barely have enough time as it is!

Anyway, I just pulled my back out of whack so, I have to end this post. I do hope you all are enjoying my posts and have spread the word about this blog. I sometimes feel like I'm just talking to a blank wall or a void as it were.

Good night!

Music for Elspeth.

I just thought I would share the music I use when I am writing Elspeth. It's quite relaxing and sets the mood of the story perfectly. So, enjoy!

Elspeth music

RAIN...No Rhubarb Fest for this author!

I don't know about you guys, but I'm tired of all this rain. It reminds me of when I lived in Bremerton, Washington and I only lasted 5 months there. I had to go home. A home where you see, feel and live in the sunshine!

I did no writing yesterday because I wanted to be out in the sun. My sanctuary (backyard) needed fixing up. I still had all my yard decor in boxes and I had to figure out where to place all my shepherd hooks for all the hanging plants I bought.

So, I mowed the front and backyard. Had to take a break because I tend to overheat in warm weather, so my face looked like a lobster. On my break and went and bought stuff for dinner. Came back and put in all the yard decor where I saw fit. By then the sky began to look darker by the minute. I had also taken my headache medicine then too. This messed up weather is creating havoc with my headaches. 

Once the storm took hold, I didn't do any writing. I made dinner and took a nap. Meds make me extremely sleepy.

Today (Sunday), another storm is on the way. We were supposed to participate in the Rhubarb Fest in Kankakee, but with the weather being what it is and my husband's woodwork, along with my books, would not be conducive to the stormy weather. So, we opted out. Lost our fee, but I'd rather that then soggy books.

I remember going to Printer's Row in Chicago and a storm started to brew. Chicago lived up to its name, Windy City. The wind kicked in, garbage cans started flying, as did tents. Pamphlets, and whatever other paper went up in the air. It was scary! Good thing there were buildings to go into then. In Kankakee, the Rhubarb Fest is outdoors.  See my point.

I have yet again, another headache, but what I didn't get done house wise yesterday, I will do now. Hopefully, writing will take place tonight.

Have a blessed Sunday.

Started Chapter 6

Storms! Hail! And wind!

That was my day and now my night. I had a writing group meeting tonight, but I didn't go, as much as I wanted to, I didn't. Instead, I caught up on my laundry (which needed much catching up on) and wrote. Writer's multi-tasking. See what I mean by not having time just for writing?

Anyway, hubby was at a cruise night at Ace Drive-in with his brothers. I didn't want to go, for reasons I just stated. So, I had a nice, relaxing evening of catching up on my two ( one of them not being my favorite), but two important things.

Tomorrow is Friday, so that's a plus right there and Sunday my husband and I are participating in a craft show, but it's supposed to storm. It's all outside. I'm praying that, that will change, but I have a feeling it won't, so wish us luck. I made sure though, that I had enough books to sell.

It's 10:47p.m. and I'm tired, so I think I will make this a short post tonight. I will let you all know how Sunday went and post pictures.

So, for now...good night.