Struggling Writers Club 4

Shaz is psychic. I thought always knowing when we say her name was huge. But nope. Posting in the new room less than ten seconds after it's made confirms it for sure, lol.

Dee

Hello_All,

Yes_Shaz,you-ran-in-here-before-everyone

else-to-sit-in-the-chairs-first!

Hey_Cearha-I'm-glad-you're-on-the-road

to-recovery.Hope-you-don't-have-to-

evacuate.That-can-be-a-hassle.

Aurelene

Hi ya all

I hope to finish writing some day.  I started this thing when we were in Japan the first time over 20 years ago.  I have the story, plot, love interests, and the end, just can't seem to get them from my fat head to the paper.  I have a very vivid imanagation just a hard time expressing it on paper.  Would love any help anyone could give.  This story is starting to haunt me, I need to release it and soon.......

thanks

Ya Ya

Cearha--hugs on the gall bladder and the hurtycane.  Here's hoping Ike downgrades to nothing but rain.

MB--yay on walking!  Woo hoo!

Michelle S.--good luck on those revisions.  You can do it!

Ya ya--welcome, and good luck to you!

Biddy--hope the job turns out okay.

Shaz--you are amazing.  Nailed that first post, didn't you?  :)

I just turned in my revisions on Tuesday and a new proposal to my new agent last week.  Today I managed to sneak in 8 pages of writing.  Yay!  Lord, I love staying home and writing.

James!  Hi there.  Welcome, and hope the writing goes well.  Always, always open your mail.  :)

Glad your surgery went well.  Hope Ike leaves you alone so that you can recover!  If you have to evacuate as far as TN, holler at me.  You've got my cell number, don't you?  I sure hope you don't have to evacuate at all, in your condition!  Your body needs to rest and recover, and not in a car!

Shaz, good to see your scowling yellow face.  Congrats on beating us all to the room!

JC, I remember you.  Hate that you didn't open that letter!

Welcome to the insanity, Ya Ya!

looks around the room...Nice and clean.  We could all let our kids loose in here for about, oh, five seconds and take care of that!  (anybody sense a note of frustration there?)

It's been a busy, busy week here.  I'm going to eat a cookie and go to bed.  See y'all!

trish

We're hunkered down and will shelter in place. We're only about 85 miles from the coast and in direct line with Galveston Island (landfall point). We can expect massive rain and hurtycane force winds even as far out as we are.

We expect to lose power. Probably for days, if not a week or more.  DH is planning to transport me to a/c in that event after the storm is over. Probably to Austin to DsS's apartment. Let the step-son babysit the ole gal. Heh.

I'm having good days and bad days, but to the point where its more good than bad. Unfortunately, all hurtycane preps have fallen to DH to handle. He has done a stellar job of taking care of things and most especially, me. Blow winds that may, I'm blessed.

Back to the couch and the never-ending hurtycane reports. Are you guys being inundated with constant hurtycane updates too?? I feel verra ala Katrina event since awarenesses were heightened due to that catastrophe. We're not nearly in that predicament. Thank Him.

I'm not sure if I'm more horrified that you found a Full Request after 3 years or that the same pile existed for 3 years. Seriously??

But I'm over the moon to see you again, dahlink! (The wife has gotten over her consideration of beating me to a pulp, yes?)

Giant hugs!

Dee

Thinking of you all with a shiver of remembrance. Been there, done that! I hope he passes over very quickly. How scary. We are getting lots of wind over here and the water is coming up in low lying areas(i.e. my old house). I went by there this morning and the bayou was way out of its banks and halfway across the yard. So glad that my family isn't there and I pray for the one that is. The house is way elevated, but the family is living in a FEMA trailer and a Katrina cottage.

LindaC

All morning and the early part of the afternoon, it was warm and we had sunshine (with a few clouds, but still...).  I got my short story ms. ready to go to the post office, we hit the road, and a few little drops fell on the windshield.  Thirty seconds later, it was storming.  I managed to get into the post office with the ms. still dry.  While I was in the PO, the storm blew over, and the sun was out by the time I left.  Weird. 

Cearha, MB, stay safe too!  Thanks, Linda!  They told us on the news to remove anything from the yard that isn't anchored so it won't fly into windows or cars, specifically mentioning lawn furniture, and they showed one of those low-rider tricycles.........I remember in a hurricane when I was a kid, Mom and I saw one of those corregated iron roofs flying down the street....  Yikes.  Meanwhile, the cicadas have no idea what's headed our way.  They're chirping away...  Hope none of us loses our electricity!  (((((hugs))))) 

Hugs Cearha and Hope. We're thinking about everyone in Ike's way. Update us when you get a chance.

Mary Beth 

Thanks for the welcome back, everyone. I hope things turn out different this time. I'd got SO burned out on writing that my muse just lay in the corner with the shakes.  Smoldering.  I'm going to try to find it today if I can.  I'm hoping it comes back.

 Ah, she was just going through a rough time back then, Dee.  (miscarriage, DVT, etc)  Things are better now.  Heck.  We've had a baby since then!  Dakota Mathew Mayes.  He's 16 months old.  I'll have to add a pic for y'all. 

 That box of "junk" wasn't three years old, actually.  It had stuff in it from over 15 years ago.  LOL!  Funny how I can keep junk like that, but I can delete a 90% completed wip without so much as a second thought. I might need to get me some psychic yelp or something. :p  Y'all have a good'n.  off to see if I can write something today.

Just checking to see if Cearha's been able to report in yet.  We've heard most of Houston is out of power.

MB 

I found my way and got all caught up. 

How's the ankle doing, Trish?

Danielle, so sorry to hear about your DH's accident, and glad he's recovering.  I envy you your RWA meeting.  What I wouldn't give to have one to go to.

Congrats on the 11 lbs, Biddy.  You look marvelous!!

Tiff, I hope Ike treated you better than Gustav.

Congrats on the agent, Christyne. 

Oh, how I love those baby belly laughs, Michelle W.  What a fun age.  It's wonderful that you're able to stay at home, and it sounds like you're making great progress.

Worrying about Cearha.  Houston was hit hard, I hear.  I have a cousin who lives there, with two small kids.  I hope everyone is alright.

I've been thinking about you too, Hope, and hoping Ike leaves you alone.

My husband is the same, Michelle S.  Since his gall bladder surgery, he only has trouble with fatty fast food.  If ice cream bothers him, he doesn't let on.  He LOVES ice cream.

Nice to see our beloved big yellow face back.  And way to be first in the room, Shaz.  You rule. 

Good to see you back to writing, JC.  Really sucks about the request letter.  I had something sort of similiar happen to me.  You not only have to open all your mail, you have to read the letter very carefully.  Good luck with your writing.

Ya Ya, you just have to write.  Get that story out of your head and into your computer.  Not easy, I know, but that's what you have to do, one word at a time.

Take it easy, MB. 

Linda, I am also so glad you and your family aren't still at your old place.  I feel so bad for the many, many people displaced by Katrina who still don't have a proper place to live.  Thank goodness you do now.

DH pulled a bone-headed move today and invited his parents over for supper without discussing it with me first.  I have soooo much to do today, so he's in the kitchen cooking away by himself.  Smells great, but I'm dreading the visit.  She's been a real handful lately.  Dang, and here they are now.  See ya.  Joyce

I too am hoping that Cearha is warm and dry. and Hope as well.

The blessing was that the storm surge was not as bad as predicted.

  Linda C -- I am just so glad that you are on higher ground.

MIchelle S, still doing revisons.

Just wanted to send my hugs and thoughts to everyone who is caught up in Ike's nastiness. I hope that  you all keep safe and that the discomfort and lack of power etc doesn;t last long.

 Thinking of you all

and Hi JC - welcome back

Kate

WB, Sadhbh.  Good to see you again.

Thanks for the update, Hope.  Glad things didn't get worse where you are.  I was worried that the streets would be impassible for Cearha.  Hoping she got to an area with electricity.

Got a lot to do today.  See y'all later!

trish

Hoping that you're okay and have a/c.

Thankfully it was not as bad as they feared - cuz it sure was bad enough!!

My area is in shock over the train crash in Chatsworth.  So sad.

Hoping that this is a calmer week.

We got power today, after being told that it would be weeks without. But not to get too comfy with it. Might be off and on for awhile.

We are safe and fine. No damage or flooding. Heartsick over Bolivar, the West End, Surfside and Galveston Island. The Balinese Ballroom!  *sigh* Murdochs! *sigh* We shall overcome.

Healing from the surgery. Yesterday made the full weeks' recovery. I've set the healing back a bit due to overworking before the storm hit. Thank G for vicodin! I've rationed it like crazy, but there were somedays I had to wonder at the pain.  Hopefully, I'll get to my doctor's check-up and get the all clear this week.

Great to be back and I hope to get caught up with the world soon. Blessed communicaton devices!

Thanks for keeping us in your thoughts. NO. More. HURTYCANES!!!  *Sigh* Hope the weather gods were listening.

SO relieved to see you both!  Glad it wasn't worse.  It was bad enough.  Can't believe all the pictures out of Galveston!  I guess the people who stayed on G. had never read Matagorda by Louis L'Amour (about the big hurricane in the 1800s that wiped that island community off the map). 

Hope the electricity stays on for you.  Our friends in northern AR lost electricity for Sunday & Monday, but it's back now. 

I'm with you.  No. More. Hurtycanes!

Cearha --

Hooray that you had power even for a short time.

Make sure you take care of yourself as you have had major surgery.

And I agree -- no more hurricanes.

Michelle S, still revising.

Cearha--thank you for checking in, and glad you're safe!

So glad that you two checked in. My thoughts and prayers are with you both.

We had to make up some of the days after Katrina. We did it by tacking on an hour to each day from right after we returned(October 3) to the middle of January. It was tough. People had so much to do after work for their houses and that's when people would work on them and were so exhausted from the less than stellar living conditions. But we had to make it up, because here in Mississippi, you must be in school for 180 days.

I'm with you, Shaz. I hope this is the end of the hurtycanes for this year.

LindaC

* HAPPY BIRTHDAY LINDA *

Happy Birthday to You!
Happy Birthday to You!
Happy Birthday, dear Linda!
May God bless You
With Many Moooooooorrrrrrrrreeeeeee!

Happy_Birthday-LindaC!

I-have-cousins-in-Houston.One-cousin-has

utilities.Her-daughters-who-live-in-suburbs

don't.One-of-her-daughters-live-in-Pearland.

Two-of-them-work-at-Hermann-hospital.I-hear

the-hospital-has-electricity.

Hope-everyone-has-a-good-rest-of-the-week.

Aurelene