Onward we go
Finding out I was a finalist in the Blogging for Books contest made my whole day into a bright and cheerful place. Finding out that I didn’t place in the top three sucked all the life out of yesterday. I wept my tears and today I get to the “moving on” part of the experience. Being a writer means having rejections to weep over.
I want today to be very different from yesterday. I was very task oriented yesterday. Today I want to be more experience oriented. I made a good start by getting outside to garden first thing. Being outdoors is good for me. Then I took our digital camera and followed Patches around the house taking pictures of him. I plan to use these pictures in a personalized story just for him. It will be the story of How Patches Went On A Picnic. He loved being the star of a photo shoot and obligingly posed for all of the story parts.
I’m writing stories for all my kids this summer. The kids are writing stories too. They’re very excited about it since my mother volunteered to buy one story per week for $5. They all have plans for what they’re going to spend the money buying. At the end of the summer I’m going to take the stories I wrote and the best stories the kids wrote, format them into a pdf, and have them bound into a book at Lulu.com. This kind of thing will be great for the kids and will make a great gift for grandparents for christmas.