Sunday, January 3, 2010

Happy New Year


Okay I've skipped a couple days - too many irons in the fire - I finished Zip - now renamed Cold Water and submitted it (it's a Young Adult Mystery/Suspense - the kid from Knapsack Secrets, now has his own book.) Had to send it to Wings for rights of first refusal - cause it's linked to the other book -- so we'll see what happens. (Just a query letter so far, we'll see if they even request the manuscript.) So okay

Today Promise yourself to forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the great achievements of the future.

I believe in light of the New Year just breaking ground, this is very good advice. 2009 will never appear again, what can you do to make 2010 The Best Year of Your Life?

If you are looking forward and not backward, if you are living in the now--you already have a good start on great achievements. Remember when you drive at night you can only see as far as the headlights can shine, when you walk upstairs you can only do it one step at a time(unless your a kid taking as many as you can at once), but that is enough - all you need to do is keep doing it again, and again, and again until you REACH your goal.

You do have a goal don't you? (not a resolution, but a goal a target)Short and long term goals - you have to aim at something or you have no direction. If you don't plan your success, "if you fail to plan, you plan to fail". Make it a banner year. I'm looking forward to it.

Friday, January 1, 2010

Happy New Year


Is this it? Is this the time we take to make ourselves new? It's funny how quickly a year passes. Well, welcome to my new blog. This will be a Character blog where I interview and or let my characters guest post exactly what is on their minds.

Currently, I'm working with a young fella named Zip -- real name Ziegfeld Scorpio. If he hears that I told you his real name he'll probably be angry with me. But that is his name, his mother named him. I can't help that.

Zip is having a real probably equating freedom with rules. It seems he thought being homeless would mean no rules - he is finding out that everything from an Acorn to a disease has rules. You may not like it, but even being homeless has rules...gangs have rules...hospitals have rules, soup kitchens have rules, everywhere he turns there are rules.

The title of the book is probably going to be COLD WATER because that is where Zip lives. The river that runs through Cold Water is a tributary of Lake Superior and has many of the deadly attributes of that Great Lake as Zip is finding out.
Hang on and I'll try to roust him from teaching his dog Lucky some new tricks.
Hugz,
Billie