Linzé Brandon's Blog, page 55
March 7, 2016
The Friendship Affair
Not all long lasting marriages are happy. But what do you do if divorce is not an option?University friends, Stephanie and Nick, meet again after twenty years. But life has not been easy or simple for either of them. Will this friendship affair stand a chance against reality?CHAPTER 9Dropping the backpack, Stephanie stepped over rocks right up to the edge as far as she dared. Then looked down.She had to sit. Her mind was incapable of comprehending what she saw.“Amazing, isn't it?”Gasping she...
March 6, 2016
Linzé's Mischief: 6 March 2016
I have been working through a spreadsheet I keep with a list of all the manuscripts I have written up to now. Unlike the spreadsheet where I keep track of the words I have written for each story, this sheet is about the status of each story. Whether it has been published, if it still has to be edited and where it fits into the series if it is part of one.I also mark the stories that will never be published. Sometimes you just know it will never work, so canning it is part of moving on. I have...
February 29, 2016
The Friendship Affair
Not all long lasting marriages are happy. But what do you do if divorce is not an option?University friends, Stephanie and Nick, meet again after twenty years. But life has not been easy or simple for either of them. Will this friendship affair stand a chance against reality? CHAPTER 8With her chores and shopping done for the week, Stephanie felt that the walls of the apartment were about ready to crush her. She missed the space and the garden of the house, but she couldn't afford to sta...
February 28, 2016
Book Review: Latina Authors and their Muses by Mayra Calvani
I volunteered to read and review this non-fiction book. First off, I didn't like the format of the book. It is a collection of one interview after the other. While it is okay to read an interview, this many was a bit of a challenge. The author interviewed 40 Latina authors.What I should have done, and only realised this about 40% through, was to check the table of contents first to see if I knew any of the authors being interviewed. Not personally of course, but knew as in have read any of th...
Linzé's Mischief: 28 February 2016
This year is two months old and already people are asking: where did the time go? Time is not ticking by any faster than it did last year or the year before or even ten years ago, and yet people still ask. I have been wondering about that for a while now. Why do we feel that time goes by faster, when in actual fact it does not.
Does it have to do with the rat race we found ourselves in? Or perhaps it is the increasing levels of stress we have to deal with every day? Or perhaps...I don't know.....
Does it have to do with the rat race we found ourselves in? Or perhaps it is the increasing levels of stress we have to deal with every day? Or perhaps...I don't know.....
February 25, 2016
The laundry, the writer and the timer they both used
I wrote 8500 words last weekend. I decided to sit and write my story for the JOURNEY project and get the first draft done after weeks of excuses. I did write, but other stories, so I wasn't procrastinating. I was avoiding the story that I should have been writing. The reasons for the avoidance are many, but let's just say that writing a story where grief is the main theme just after my mother passed away, was not going to be easy and I dreaded that. But I did it.Before I get into the how of t...
February 22, 2016
The Friendship Affair
Not all long lasting marriages are happy. But what do you do if divorce is not an option?University friends, Stephanie and Nick, meet again after twenty years. But life has not been easy or simple for either of them. Will this friendship affair stand a chance against reality? CHAPTER 7They met the following Sunday afternoon at the coffee shop.“How has your week been?”“Rough, but I managed. Yours?”Nick smiled at the memory of his kids' visit two days earlier. “Splendid actually. Work was...
February 21, 2016
Linzé's Mischief: 21 February 2016
It has just gone past 7 pm and I am exhausted. I set myself the target to sit and write the first draft of Galen's Hope this weekend. I have been coming up with excuses for weeks now and on Friday, I decided that enough is enough. So I kept my notes close, the box of tissues closer and I wrote the story.Yesterday was bad. I had to do the scenes where Galen's found out that his entire family was killed, except his sister. Then he had to watch her die. Man, it was exhausting. I was crying so mu...
February 15, 2016
The Friendship Affair
Not all long lasting marriages are happy. But what do you do if divorce is not an option?University friends, Stephanie and Nick, meet again after twenty years. But life has not been easy or simple for either of them. Will this friendship affair stand a chance against reality? CHAPTER 6
“Hey, Dad. What's up?”Nick smiled at his youngest holding out a beer to him while she sipped her soft drink.“I am good. So how was the last official day of school?”“Surprising,” she replied. “I thought I would b...
February 11, 2016
I need your help...for a character
Synopsis: Juliana needs a man that has some adventure in his blood. She meets Ryland on her way home, but does not see his face. She becomes intimately acquainted with his hands though. To preserve the mystery and the excitement of their public affair, she never tries to look at him when he touches her on the crowded bus.My Intimate Stranger is the first in a trilogy of two people who embark on the sexual relationship adventure of a lifetime.My challenge to you: I need an occupation for Rylan...
