All These Words That I've Done

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All These Words That I've Done

It's that time of year where being outside is a joy rather than torture. I've been going each morning to the local soccer / baseball park to walk the dogs. This is the same park where I've gone for some quiet writing time for years. I can't sit at a computer and write. Never have been able to. I'll use my Alphasmart or pen and paper and let the fresh air and sunshine inspire me. This park is a madhouse on the weekends, but during weekday mornings it's bliss. I'm always surprised how empty it is, and love having my own writing / walking oasis, though it quickly fills up for evening practice.

I can remember exactly which picnic table I was sitting at when I wrote a scene that got cut from Larger Than Life. I wrote a whole lot of Beyond a Shadow from a table near the front of the park. It's where Ezra's and Emmy Rose's voices came to me. I moved from table to table while working on The Bane Affair.

On the other hand, Infatuation and A Long, Hard Ride were written from my backyard, as was Maximum Exposure and With Extreme Pleasure. I dictated most of One Good Man, and wrote a lot of No Limits from the backyard trampoline.

The Perfect Stranger I wrote in a spiral notebook at the reception desk and in a conference room where I lunched when working the day job. Love In Bloom was dictated while I walked the track at the health club on my lunch hour. And then there's all the writing I used to do on the bus.

I've never been much of a Starbucks writer, though I did write a lot of the girl-gear books at Beck's Prime or Schlotsky's, but did just as much at Houston's downtown Sam Houston Park and Tranquility Park.

I love remembering all the words I've written at so many places.

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