Sea Venture is a 50 foot ketch, our home on the water. She’s big enough to allow me to write on one computer in the lower salon, while my husband does his engineering/designing/messing around with his computer in the pilot house.That’s my desk settee in the upper picture and the one below shows the heater blaring in cool weather, such as we’re having mornings here in San Carlos.
I have finished two manuscripts since we moved on board. No problem here wondering what to do with free time. When we’re not making passage somewhere new or managing boat projects, I write.
You can read about our passage on the blog links to the right.
Here are some earlier posts I wrote using my website’s blogging device. I’ve since linked to this blog.
11/24/2009
We’re in Bahia San Carlos, hanging on the hook of our boat, Sea Venture, while I write and Michael works on boat projects. We await shifts in things: the weather, for one, which may push us south; changes in my writing world, which could mean anything. The following is a picture of the incredible sky we see often as the sun begins to set..
A NEW YEAR 01/04/2010
I’ve finished the first draft of
Forever Is A Long, Long Time, which is the sequel to
Not Unless It’s Forever. Now it’s time for the edit and rewrite. I love the characters in this story: Childless Hannah, who rescues Ben and Lily from under a bush before finding their mother Susan, broken and almost dead on their kitchen floor. Butch, the dog who sniffs out the children. Tommy, the police lieutenant who comes on the scene and finds his life changed beyond repair. And Cal, the nasty ego-centric husband who banged up Susan and is after four-year-old Lily. Of course, the Beaufort. NC, friends from the first story slip right into this one.
We still in Bahia San Carlos, preparing the boat to head south, enjoying new friends, and looking forward to the next adventure.
BLOGGING VERSUS WRITING STORIES: 01/18/2010
Guess which I prefer? I’m amazed by writers who manage to fill blogs with all sorts of interesting things because my writing hours seem eaten before I know it by words growing or changing in my stories. I open a chapter of my WIP and read it, then, oops, gotta fix that. Oh, and then there’s that scene that really needs to be tightened, and does that dialogue really work?
So, if I only come on here once in a blue moon, that’s why.
If you want more, write me and ask for it! I’ll answer. Really.
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Very nice layout. I like your comments about blogging. So true!