Just pretty things. I tend to be very visual, and things that make me look and smile
Design by Toni Ig |
Paris Flower show at the Jardins des Tuileries. Photo © Sheron Long |
Design by Toni Ig |
Paris Flower show at the Jardins des Tuileries. Photo © Sheron Long |
I have said before that I sometimes do graphic work, usually for myself. I find it enjoyable, and it allows me to pretend that I am an artist like the rest of my family. If you check my books, you will see my work, since I design my book covers, myself. …Although the Crocodile story needs a cover that I can’t design. I think. I’ll try it shortly… or maybe I’ll listen to my family:
I have a terrible shyness when it comes to beta-reads. I have a fear that someone will read something of mine and give the beta-reader’s equivalent of ‘PEE-You!’
Not sure why Solzhenitsyn has a litter box in front of him… |
Houses in Picardy…
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Always a good idea… |
It’s Celebration time with Lexa Cain‘s blog hop celebrating the small things. The blog itself, started by VikLit, is something to celebrate. Visit our fearless leader and her two wonderful co-hosts L.G. Keltner @ Writing Off The Edge and Katie @ TheCyborgMom.
The Green Mountains of Vermont |
This is the idea of Cherdo, who tells stories that make you laugh like a fool, the point of which are that she meanders through life being a bonehead, and it never crosses your mind (while you are laughing) that she’s about as boneheaded as a fox.
Your hosts are Cherdo, of Cherdo on the Flipside.
And me (Diana Wilder)
I have spent the past week plus battling a dying computer that has stumped the good folks at my local computer store, crossed swords with Windows 8, which I am convinced is a plot by Microsoft to destroy civilization and drive it mad in the process. I wish I could think of something I did during all this time to show what a dope I have been, with this whole episode, but I honestly can’t. Unless it is that I have been stupid enough to underestimate the tendency of computer-type folks to keep fiddling even after they have come out with a product that is splendid in its simplicity, easy to use, and magnificent in its capability.
…This from the person who has tweaked a book cover for the umpteenth time until my nearest and dearest have inquired, sweetly, whether I am thinking of putting my hero in a dress for the cover and spring a surprise ending on everyone a la Bruce/Caitlin Jenner.
But, truly, I have had my share of truly dopey moments. Let me tell you of one.
…Imagine me, tanned and fit, wearing my Camp Counselor getup. Imagine the boy who filled my dreams, cute grin…
Yeah, definitely kissable… |
The world went forty directions, the earth came up and smacked me in the stomach, something seized my leg, and my face hit the dirt. I couldn’t move my one leg, and the other, making the motions of running, seemed to be doing it in a vacuum.
Behold, the Snapping Turtle |
The Hunk as he truly was |
I gave him The Look and walked back to my cabin alone.
The Look |
“Yeah,” said I, “But I was a dope to have a crush on him.”
Go visit Cherdo’s site and grab the links (I am still trying to figure out my new computer, including how to make the images smaller now) and then look around. You’ll laugh, think, and generally have a great time!
This is my monthly post for
Little stinker |
So… So what if it is all Lost?
The easy thing is to remind myself of why I write in the first place (see this blog post ) That’s why I’m doing it. And, if all I wrote was destroyed, I’d have to soldier on. Moby Dick was lost (pity Melville found it)and he wasn’t destroyed. I know of a lot of manuscripts that were lost, starting with Gibbons’ The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, accidentally burned by a friend’s illiterate servant who mistook the written word on paper for paper to be used to light a fire. Gibbons was charming about it, no one was hurt, and the book was rewritten.
Kerflooey! |
Well, something like that sort of happened to me. Did you notice how the post looks a tad clumsy? Text and color not as usual? Photos wonky? Not up to my usual mediocre style? Well, there’s a reason for that, and a lesson.
My computer went kerflooey (conked out, blew up, took a long walk off a short pier, committed seppuku) – pick one; the effect is the same.
The Geek Squad! |
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