Monthly Archives: January 2016
Celebrations, January 15, 2016 – Finding Favorite Music…and A Bouquet

I stepped out of my car and saw both men emerging with cellphones plastered to their ears. They were talking into their cellphones. I took mine from my purse – where it belonged while I was driving – and called the police. “Can you see police lights up ahead ma’am?” the bored voice asked. I said that I was the front vehicle in a multi-car pileup (‘you unmitigated nitwits!’) and they needed to send someone quickly.
Christophori’s Dream, performed by David Lanz:
A Whiter Shade of Pale:
They certainly livened my drive, and I’ll be delving into that bag again.
And the Bouquet: I happened to see this on a sponsored forum on a vendor of my books:
Does anyone know anything about the next Memphis book – I was told the title was to be KADESH?
I apologize for the lateness of this response, but I saw your question just now and owe you a response.
Family issues delayed the release of Kadesh. I am working on it at this moment with a projected release date the end of this year. I will be releasing another Egyptian story, set a little earlier than the Memphis Cycle, within the next two months. This is a fable, and is a shorter story. The title is THE THIRTY CUBIT CROCODILE, and you can find information about it on my website, which is www.dianawilderauthor.com
And you can imagine my smile when I read this response and saw that someone had ‘liked’ my post:
Thank you. I’ll be waiting eagerly.
What are you celebrating?
Insecure Writers Support Group January 2016
No one is mocked or sneered at. All are welcome. We have all been there:
http://www.insecurewriterssupportgroup.com/
L.G. Keltner http://lgkeltner.blogspot.com/
Denise Covey http://dencovey.blogspot.com/
Sheri Larsen http://www.salarsenbooks.com/
J.Q. Rose http://www.jqrose.com/
Chemist Ken http://hogwartssabbatical.blogspot.com/
Michelle Wallace http://www.writer-in-transit.co.za/


Wha–?
Okay, that’s weird. But – and here is my deep, dark secret that I am offering up – I find myself goofing off, checking eBay, looking at the news, following links to interesting places, fiddling with Pinterest—
Hold on, you say, what’s wrong with that?
Well, because I have sat down (hundreds of times) with an idea for a scene that I am going to write, by golly. Most recently, it’s two chapters, to be salted in my WIP, that introduce a new angle to the conflict that the character is having, and heightens the element of danger. I jotted my thoughts, blocked some things out, got some feedback from a friend who is perhaps the best, most honest editor I’ve ever had. It’ll make the story flow, it had scope for humor and danger and a touch of intrigue – Who IS that fellow??? – and I sat down, fiddled with Pinterest and GOGMSITE. (I digress here for a moment: anyone who writes historical fiction with a European slant and is interested in researching female costume/fashion should visit www.gogmsite.net/ It is a wonderful resource, full of images and run by someone who needs to be awarded something. Perhaps being named ‘Dame of the Empire’ or something.)
So… Did I write the scene? Well, I did crank out a page once I looked at the clock and squawked. But I could have written the whole thing and fiddled with it the next day. And I didn’t. Why not?

I don’t do that to others, and I only had one person do that to me. She was in Preditors and Editors as an ‘Avoid at All Costs’. Based on my information from the post office, she opened my envelope, scrawled a note on the manuscript I’d sent for her review, and stuffed it back in the mail within half an hour of receiving it. Everyone else has been constructive, if somewhat stern. Stern is nice.
I’ll be on the internet this evening reading Insecure Writer Posts. Then I’ll spit out that chapter, which will bring me closer to finishing the WIP. I will start sounding people out for beta-reads.