ABR is moving along. Strong story - I am quite pleased with it. I was on vacation last week and took several days to do not much of anything other than relax, read and enjoy my family. So I have not written every day but I am back on schedule as of this weekend. I am sending out an email in the next few days as a request to recruit the next round of proofreaders. Feel free to volunteer prior to the email. I will need 4-6 readers. For those who need to plan, the manuscript will be available in about 2 weeks. I will either hand deliver a copy or I will mail it to you, depending on your location. I request all readers complete the manuscript no longer than 30 days after you receive your copy. All corrections, questions, suggestions should be noted in red on the manuscript. You can tag pages with those little sticky arrows or sheets. I prefer proofers who are not afraid to be honest. I need those with good grammar skills but more importantly I need readers who will let me know when there are issues with the story line, etc. I also would like to hear what you like about the manuscript. Anyway, the longer I am blogging, the less time I am writing ABR. So have a good night and remember - THREE CROSSES is available in paperback! Place your orders directly through me ($15 per book - discounted price) or follow the Blurb.com link to your left - it is $15.95 from Blurb. It is also available on the Kindle and the NOOK.
Thanks for reading C.L.LeMay:)
Monday, August 29, 2011
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Reaction Line
Good morning Readers,
Please remember there is a reaction line at the end of each post. Utilize them. I love seeing reactions checked off - let's me know you are actually reading and have something to declare.
Hey! Guess what! I am soooo very excited about this - a book club has chosen THREE CROSSES as their November book! I look forward to their reaction - good and bad. I will let you know how it goes. Don't you love the concept of book clubs? I also love the idea of starting a writer's forum/group. It would be so much fun to share writing adventures and mishaps with other writers.
Have a great remainder of the weekend.
C.L.LeMay
Please remember there is a reaction line at the end of each post. Utilize them. I love seeing reactions checked off - let's me know you are actually reading and have something to declare.
Hey! Guess what! I am soooo very excited about this - a book club has chosen THREE CROSSES as their November book! I look forward to their reaction - good and bad. I will let you know how it goes. Don't you love the concept of book clubs? I also love the idea of starting a writer's forum/group. It would be so much fun to share writing adventures and mishaps with other writers.
Have a great remainder of the weekend.
C.L.LeMay
Friday, August 19, 2011
Writing Project(s) update
ABR is somewhere around page 35. I shut down yesterday without looking at the page number. Would be happier with a faster pace but can't really complain considering I write in snippets here and there. Snipets or snippets? Thank goodness for spellcheck - snippets, in case your are wondering too. Or perhaps you already know that and are thinking "she's a writer?" Re-reading "Cherry Cola" yesterday. Needs some serious improvements but good concept. Thinking that I would fix that up and create a little book or maybe put several short stories together and make a small anthology. Sounds like fun. I'll give it some serious consideration and time once ABR's 1st draft is complete - give it a chance to brew a little bit. Plus I need to investigate the whole book cover thing. How/where do other indie writers get their book cover designs? I can't keep having THREE CROSSES artist/designer donating their time.
So I have plenty to do in the writing world. Wouldn't object to a miracle so I could spend more time on it, but then I get nervous when I think that. What kind of miracle would have to occur? One that prevents me from getting a regular paycheck or has me bedridden? Can I request a miracle with particulars to my liking or is that wrong? Can't have it both ways or all my way kind of thing? I know, brain ramblings again. Haven't shared those in a while - mostly because I figure they get to be too much. But doesn't stop it from occurring. My head is almost constantly analyzing something, everything, nothing. What happens when this happens? Why did he or she do that or do it that way? Why are people so different and so alike at the same time? Why do some people see the big picture and others don't? Why do some people suffer tragedies and come through them still in a functional state and others don't? I know there are answers to all of those questions and I even have my own answers but it doesn't stop me from thinking about them as they apply to daily situations. Not to mention, what I really think about I can't share without sounding like I am a whack job. Think about Carl Jung. That dude's philosophy was laid out in black and white time and time again for the world to review and pick apart and admire. And yet his one piece of authentic insight to his own mind's ramblings did not come to the surface until after his death. Had anyone known his inner thoughts and turmoils during his career, he would have been rejected as a fraud. And yet his professional insights were authentic too. You can have both - the intellectual insights that others grasp and appreciate and the personal insights that are simply the mind wandering into those places that most would rather not go. The complexities of the human mind, heart, soul are all so fascinating. If I were to spend the time on their analysis the way I would like, I would probably find myself in a black hole - no way to return (and I don't mean going crazy - I mean it is an amazing place to go, looking for the explanations of life, so much so that I could spend forever exploring it). Ok - probably too much for this time of the day. Let's have more coffee and shake it off so I can meander into the routine of society and its expectations.
Cheerio and all that good stuff. I'll touch base over the weekend and let you know where ABR stands. Keep your fingers crossed that momentum finds her way to my manuscript.
So I have plenty to do in the writing world. Wouldn't object to a miracle so I could spend more time on it, but then I get nervous when I think that. What kind of miracle would have to occur? One that prevents me from getting a regular paycheck or has me bedridden? Can I request a miracle with particulars to my liking or is that wrong? Can't have it both ways or all my way kind of thing? I know, brain ramblings again. Haven't shared those in a while - mostly because I figure they get to be too much. But doesn't stop it from occurring. My head is almost constantly analyzing something, everything, nothing. What happens when this happens? Why did he or she do that or do it that way? Why are people so different and so alike at the same time? Why do some people see the big picture and others don't? Why do some people suffer tragedies and come through them still in a functional state and others don't? I know there are answers to all of those questions and I even have my own answers but it doesn't stop me from thinking about them as they apply to daily situations. Not to mention, what I really think about I can't share without sounding like I am a whack job. Think about Carl Jung. That dude's philosophy was laid out in black and white time and time again for the world to review and pick apart and admire. And yet his one piece of authentic insight to his own mind's ramblings did not come to the surface until after his death. Had anyone known his inner thoughts and turmoils during his career, he would have been rejected as a fraud. And yet his professional insights were authentic too. You can have both - the intellectual insights that others grasp and appreciate and the personal insights that are simply the mind wandering into those places that most would rather not go. The complexities of the human mind, heart, soul are all so fascinating. If I were to spend the time on their analysis the way I would like, I would probably find myself in a black hole - no way to return (and I don't mean going crazy - I mean it is an amazing place to go, looking for the explanations of life, so much so that I could spend forever exploring it). Ok - probably too much for this time of the day. Let's have more coffee and shake it off so I can meander into the routine of society and its expectations.
Cheerio and all that good stuff. I'll touch base over the weekend and let you know where ABR stands. Keep your fingers crossed that momentum finds her way to my manuscript.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
"Grandma's Quilt" by C.L.LeMay
Quick fingers sewing scraps
into patterns of quilted stars.
Gnarled knuckles over the years
barely slowed her pace.
No patch was ever a piece of trash.
No thread couldn’t find it’s place.
Red and gold, purple and blue,
a rainbow’s tangled mess.
With visions of color and design,
she stitched a masterpiece every time.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Order your paperback on C.L.Lemay's blog
Notice anything different on my blog? Yeah baby! You can order the paperback directly from the blog! Again remember you can send me an order request via email at lemaycathy3@gmail.com or through a comment on the blog.
I love the addition to the blog! Makes me happy!
I love the addition to the blog! Makes me happy!
Another ABR update
I have just a minute but wanted to check in. Page 29. Not quite the clip I would like to be progressing at, but I didn't have any time yesterday to write. But I will stay encouraged because I managed to squeeze out 2 pages today and it's only 7:30. If I can get another couple of pages tonight, that would be perfect. I try to keep a goal of 3 pages a day when working on a draft - not too much pressure but rather a consistent clip (yeah, I'm using the word again). Besides, I spoke to a reader of THREE CROSSES yesterday and she was sooo very excited to receive her copy of THREE CROSSES. She borrowed one of the proofs and told me that she looks forward to going home every day to read it. She made me autograph her copy. Very cool and scary at the same time this whole being asked for my autograph. Anyway, gotta run. ABR is sounding and looking good. Happy with it despite that its a bit different than I envisioned - but a better different, so that's good.
Monday, August 15, 2011
ABR update
Minutes after last evening's post, I did not write on ABR anymore for the day. So last night, I was at page 23 and it is at a setting change so I stumbled a bit - a little lost as to what I wanted to convey. I set my alarm to get me up an hour earlier this morning. It paid off. I found the voice again and in addition to writing thru page 25, I started a list of situations and details to be aware of that could affect COVET. Tricky thing this writing multiple novels that are linked.
I continue to feel good about ABR. I received a couple of emails yesterday - the topic in both being, "when is the movie (THREE CROSSES) coming out?" Mark and I discussed the pros and cons of looking for an agent last night. Just the fact that he takes all of this seriously despite the fact that I have not reached a large audience yet is extremely encouraging to me. He is not a novel reader and we don't discuss story content but he believes in my skill/talent based on responses I have gotten and my desire to succeed. Makes for a happy writer!
That's it for now - getting ready for work is next in line. I will try to put writing time on the schedule for tonight. Every page I write is one more page closer to being done with the 1st draft.
I continue to feel good about ABR. I received a couple of emails yesterday - the topic in both being, "when is the movie (THREE CROSSES) coming out?" Mark and I discussed the pros and cons of looking for an agent last night. Just the fact that he takes all of this seriously despite the fact that I have not reached a large audience yet is extremely encouraging to me. He is not a novel reader and we don't discuss story content but he believes in my skill/talent based on responses I have gotten and my desire to succeed. Makes for a happy writer!
That's it for now - getting ready for work is next in line. I will try to put writing time on the schedule for tonight. Every page I write is one more page closer to being done with the 1st draft.
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