Writing about a flood:
What would you do if you were stranded by a flood for two or three weeks? Your phone, your electricity and water are off. Your road is blocked by fallen trees. Your world is only a hilltop surrounded by flood waters.
Could you survive?
This is the basic plot of the novel I am writing on right now.
Of course, there are other factors involved. Her husband is a problem even though he is off driving a truck. She must face her own insecurities.
As a homesteader, she has livestock and flood damage to keep her busy.
The novel is a partially done draft right now. I don’t know how the story ends yet. I don’t have a title yet.
What I do have is another rewrite and edit as I delve deeper into the story and Mindy’s emotions. If I can’t feel the emotions, I can’t make them real on the page. And that makes writing the draft hard as I must sink into the story while I am writing and dig my way out to go on with my day.
Reading:
Those who have visited my site before know I do a fair amount of reading every year. I post reviews and ratings on Goodreads under Karen GoatKeeper, averaging over 70 books a year.
At present I am reading the last Mrs. Pollifax novel, “Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled”. This is a thriller series starring, obviously, Mrs. Emily Pollifax.
Mrs. P was in her sixties and bored with nothing but club meetings and raising prize winning geraniums. Her teenage dream was to be a spy, so she went to Washington, D.C., and applied for a spying job at the CIA.
Through accidental mistaken identity, Mrs. P got her chance and the series was born. It’s lots of fun reading, especially for older women.
My other book is “A Drake At the Door” which is interesting, but disappointing as it is more about raising cut flowers than about the animals mentioned on the cover. The drake doesn’t appear until the last fifty pages.
