Details, Endless Details
“My Ozark Home” is essentially finished awaiting publishing. I’ve gone on to another project: Mistaken Promises, the third Hazel Whitmore book.
Hazel Whitmore is now a teenager trying to adjust to living miles from town with no cell service. She does have internet now, although, as is typical in rural Missouri, it is slow, maddeningly slow.
Life should be settling down. That would be a boring book. Books need excitement, things happening. Hazel’s life flares up, target of someone with a grudge in “Mistaken Promises.”.
Once the question of who this someone is was settled, the book draft got written. Now the rewriting and editing are in full swing. Now all the details need attention.
Hazel loves to cook. She started cooking in “Broken Promises” as a way of coping with her hidden grief. Focusing on cooking let her mind relax. Cooking still relaxes her.
Hazel now has cookbooks, her grandmother’s recipe box and new foods to experiment with. These recipes are based on ones I use. I’m a casual cook, liking the process, but rarely having the time for special recipes. I have dietary restrictions and habits so I change recipes to suit these.
This will not work very well for recipes included in “Mistaken Promises.” I will have to follow the recipes – mostly – to make sure they are right before putting them in the book’s recipe section. At present there are fourteen foods Hazel makes. Some are repeats from previous books.
Hazel and Lily will take pictures for the local paper over the summer using their DSLR camera, a lucky find. That is, they will once they decipher the instructions.
My camera is not a DSLR. Luckily I do have access to the proper instruction book. Study time followed by rewrite time is on the agenda.
A county fair is part of the action. I’ve been to county fairs years ago. Still, I plan to check out the local version this year. More details.
At times ignoring these details is tempting. Write it so it sounds right. No one will notice. Wrong.
I remember an old story about the original Star Trek series. A new director wanted Sulu to reach up across his console to do some maneuver. He protested. Yes, the reach would be dramatic, except the button the director wanted pushed was the self destruct button. And the fans would point this out loudly.
Back to researching and fixing all those details.
Hazel Whitmore is now a teenager trying to adjust to living miles from town with no cell service. She does have internet now, although, as is typical in rural Missouri, it is slow, maddeningly slow.
Life should be settling down. That would be a boring book. Books need excitement, things happening. Hazel’s life flares up, target of someone with a grudge in “Mistaken Promises.”.
Once the question of who this someone is was settled, the book draft got written. Now the rewriting and editing are in full swing. Now all the details need attention.
Hazel loves to cook. She started cooking in “Broken Promises” as a way of coping with her hidden grief. Focusing on cooking let her mind relax. Cooking still relaxes her.
Hazel now has cookbooks, her grandmother’s recipe box and new foods to experiment with. These recipes are based on ones I use. I’m a casual cook, liking the process, but rarely having the time for special recipes. I have dietary restrictions and habits so I change recipes to suit these.
This will not work very well for recipes included in “Mistaken Promises.” I will have to follow the recipes – mostly – to make sure they are right before putting them in the book’s recipe section. At present there are fourteen foods Hazel makes. Some are repeats from previous books.
Hazel and Lily will take pictures for the local paper over the summer using their DSLR camera, a lucky find. That is, they will once they decipher the instructions.
My camera is not a DSLR. Luckily I do have access to the proper instruction book. Study time followed by rewrite time is on the agenda.
A county fair is part of the action. I’ve been to county fairs years ago. Still, I plan to check out the local version this year. More details.
At times ignoring these details is tempting. Write it so it sounds right. No one will notice. Wrong.
I remember an old story about the original Star Trek series. A new director wanted Sulu to reach up across his console to do some maneuver. He protested. Yes, the reach would be dramatic, except the button the director wanted pushed was the self destruct button. And the fans would point this out loudly.
Back to researching and fixing all those details.
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