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Words on Paper

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That has to be my goal right now. Get the words down on the paper, or screen as the case may be. Make something take form in order to have something to edit. One thousand words a day is about all I can swing.

It's the dialogue that eludes me this week. How do adults actually talk to each other? I've forgotten. It's been a while since I spoke at length with many of them.

The exercise I'm trying this week will be letter writing. It's a monologue, but perhaps it will get my conversational skills back up to speed.

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Belle McClaine

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The Rock Star's Retreat comes out on October 5th. The author is an acquaintance and newly published. Her writing style is continually snappy and fresh, and hard work should pay off. Take a run by and see if you like it.

Having read her draft, I highly recommend it, since it can only have gotten better. So, buy her book and curl up for a great romantic read!

Roadblocks to Romance

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My whole life is a roadblock. I have a son with autism, a financial situation and a marriage on the rocks. Where's the romance there?

You know what? I don't care. I want it back. The dream of romance is worth it. Who cares if it seldom comes true? I want to be the princess again, and so I'll write.

Of course, this is all said in the heat of the moment and after my Barack Obama dream last night where he held my hand and walked with me in the moonlight. How do I put all of that excitement and tenderness on paper when I've been so removed from it for so long? In the rush of my life, it would be difficult to have any romantic illusions at all. Unless I make it up!

And that was my therapeutic breakthrough. I'm not on the page. It's not me. It's pretend. I've been pretending since I was knee high to a grasshopper. So hello fantasy world! Goodbye, sleep!

So it begins. . .

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I will begin with my homage to Karen Marie Moning and Jericho Barrens. Dreamfever was indeed the best yet.

Fanfiction, by myself, can be found here. I'm trying desperately to get back into the swing of writing, romance and imagination. It will be! Now I just have to convince this damn computer.