Liz Flaherty's Blog, page 180
June 25, 2013
Seasons
It's been an extremely hot summer so far. Colorado is burning up--literally.
I woke up this morning kind of dreading another miserable day.
Both of my WIPs are set in a Colorado summer. Not an uncommon occurrence for me.
But today, with the heat already searing like an Arizona August afternoon, neither story appealed.
I thought about opening an older manuscript set in the Colorado winter. But I just couldn't get into it either.
I mean, whe...
June 23, 2013
The outtake file
It’s Sunday afternoon and I sat down here at 3:30 to write my post—I’m the Monday Wrangler in case I haven’t reminded you of that often enough. I wrote about 220 words, made a cup of tea, and trashed all 220 of them, so now it’s 5:25 and I’m still sitting here. These four lines are what I’ve written. The 220 words were, regardless of my best efforts to make them less so, political. They would have alienated some readers and made some other...
June 21, 2013
Still together!
Meet My husband! Yes, this is him. This picture is taken on my birthday a couple years ago, when we rode into the mountains and had a picnic with my daughter and her then-boyfriend. It was a nice day. A rare day. The hubs likes to ride and he likes to fish, but he rarely slows down to do either one. He's a bit of a workaholic. Ahem. A bit. He also works out of state and when he's home he has a million things to do. It drives me crazy. I want him to relax mor...
June 20, 2013
Running on Empty or Not.
I got nothing today. This has been a week of change for me. Not only did I start at a new store (my day job) and get to meet new people--lots of employees to remember the names of. I think on Saturday, my first day there as their new assistant manager, I met like 10 employees. I was used to a three-five employee shift and that was including the pharmacy.
On Saturday, one of the employees asked me if she could give Maria her lunch. I said, "Who's Maria?" Yep. One of those days. But I'm get...
June 19, 2013
My Favorite Romance Heroine
"Do you promise not to hurt him?" That's Princess Buttercup from "The Princess Bride". One of my favorite movies and one of my favorite books (yes, I saw the movie first, yes, I think the book is better…we've talked about my abiding love obsession with TPB before. In a pinch I'll watch or read either).Princess Buttercup is one of my all-time favorite romance heroines, even though she's so not a 'today' heroine because she allowed too much to happen to her. When Westley was 'killed' she holed...
June 18, 2013
Planting Flowers
I love gardening. Always have. It is one of the things that refuels me. Digging in the dirt, weeding, deadheading. All of it. Usually our porch is covered in planters filled with all the summer basics--Petunias, Pansies, Marigolds...
This summer, the desire for pot and pots filled with flowers seemed like more work that fun. The desire was there--sort of. I kept checking out the plants at the farm and ranch store where my daughter works, Wal-Mart and the nursery. But I didn't buy any. Not one...
June 17, 2013
Hello from Tennessee.
Hello from the Volunteer state, home of beautiful mountains and lots of country music and most anything you might be on the lookout for. We're on our way home from a week in Florida and I'm writing from the dining area in a Hampton Inn. It's been a good trip, but I'm ready to be home.I'm not going to get too holier-than-thou here, but I am going to say this trip has served as a reminder to me both personally and as a writer. Maybe a needed reminder.
Something that clangs at me in boo...
June 13, 2013
The Schizophrenic In Me
Lately I've noticed a disturbing trend in my reading habits--I've become a little bit unfocused in actually finishing a book.I blame my Kindle Fire. It's way too easy to start a new book, not to mention buy a new book.
These books are a represtentation of the books that I have read at least two chapters of over the past week.
Seriously. I've been reading Dance of Dragons on my phone. Feast of Crows on my Kindle. I'd started these months ago and got a little fed up for a while but after finishin...
June 12, 2013
Spotlight on Christine Warner's Bachelor's Special!
Hey there, WordWrangler readers! We're putting the spotlight on Christine Warner's new contemporary, Bachelor's Special, today! Welcome Christine! And read on for a fab excerpt!About the Book:
Saute, simmer, and flambé…
Jill Adgate wants three things from life: a successful catering business, the devoted love of an exceptional man, and a family. What she has is no job, a mounting pile of bills, and her outspoken best friend—who sets her up on a blind date with the man who inadvertently ruined J...
June 11, 2013
Wilted Roses
About a week ago, I got to quit my retail job to write full-time! Yay! My hubs (I need to think up a nickname like Kristi's Radioman) bought me the colored roses in the foreground and DD (she's too old to be Bebe like Kristi's little angel) got me the red ones. Aren't they gorgeous?They sat on the kitchen table and boy, did the smell good! Every time I saw them, I smiled. Not only were they stunning, they represented the bright new future ahead of me.
Write every day. Put out a book every thre...
