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It seems like it has been a lifetime since I have done a flash piece. Okay, maybe that is just me being a little dramatic, but it has been a few weeks for sure. This weeks flash prompt brought on a moment of Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh for me, but then I stopped being a baby and just got over it and wrote.
I guess you could say I got motivated…
The August 13, 2014 challenge from Carrot Ranch Communications prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) show the underlying motivation of a character. He or she may not even understand the motivation fully, but let the reader grasp it. It can be an external or internal motivation (or both). Maybe it’s a decision, a revelation or the beginning of disaster.
A Scratchy Competition
Glancing around, I screwed the lid shut on my neighbors powder compact and placed it back on her vanity. Then I did a final check of my own make-up before she finished up in the bathroom.
I knew that she would make a final mirror check where she would powder her forehead, for fear of unwanted shininess while on stage.
A bathroom break would have been a relief, but time hadn’t permitted. Instead, I disregarded the empty baggy of itching powder at the bottom of the trash before heading back for curtain call.
This year’s crown would be mine.
So how did I do?
~AJP
I have been a crappy blogger lately.
It has been a crazy busy summer for my household. We have been in “travel mode” since the middle of June- I am pretty sure my cats are plotting their revenge on us for upsetting their daily life of eating, sleeping and being petted constantly.
But all of this time away from home has made it difficult to keep up with posting. Even with technology as great as it is, when you are in an area that simply refuses to connect to the internet, you just simply have to accept that posts will not be posted. {Or read for that matter, I am so behind on reading other blogs, or responding to comments made on For the Love of…} I even missed last weeks 99 Words Flash Challenge and it isn’t looking as if I am going to make this weeks challenge either – because my brain is beyond exhausted.
In the past month I have been up in the Rockies then to the foot of the Smokies. Five National Parks have been visited and stamped into the kid’s Passport books in under a month’s time. And the National Parks were not even the main cause for travel, they were just an added perk along the way.
I have also caught up on my reading (I will try and post a few book reviews next month because I read some really great books).
I completed my CampNaNo – barely, I uploaded my words as we were getting on the highway headed out of town.
And I have almost completed my first draft of my novel, I have half of a chapter to go before I can start my read through and begin working on the second draft. I am debating letting a few people do a read through as well before I start the second draft, that will give me a better idea of what areas need work.
So needless to say, I am bone tired. Posts will probably not pick up to a regular schedule until after school starts back up in a couple of weeks. Which I am dreading.
My baby starts school this year, so I will now spend my days crying – starting sometime next week and probably not subsiding until… well maybe ever. She is my baby after all. I still cry when my son starts each new year, though I am not allowed to call him my baby. He has forbidden it. Most school days I am not even allowed to acknowledge that we know one another, let alone that I am his mother. For me, holidays are the best time because he has no other choice but to spend time with me. I guess once school starts I will need to find a hobby or something. Hmm, maybe I’ll write a book.
Oh wait, I am already doing that. 🙂
Enjoy the rest of your summer, in the mean time, I am going back to watching a much anticipated Shark Week on the Discovery Channel.
~AjP