A STORY

A = Alphabet = a journey of 26 letters...

Each letter begins a story...

But I'm not going to use  alphabet for my "A" story...
Rather, my "A"  story started many years ago.
It had been two years of writing...
Hundreds of random pages...
Of disjointed thoughts and concepts.
When one day my right brain said to me...

"Um, you know you're writing a book, right?

"Ah Ha! 
I knew all this writing had to be good for something."
I'm still not sure where those creative ideas came from.
Another year later...
I had pulled a manuscript together titled: B--
Ah, ah ah...not till tomorrow...
When it's "B's" turn to tell a story.

Always, Em-Musing

WHAT THE...?

I am so sorry!
To all bloggers that I follow...
The below message is what I get...
Every time I try to post a comment.
WHAT THE...?
But see what I mean about Blogger?
They're punishing me.
First no-see-um followers...
Now no-comments-me!
And I don't know enough Spanish...
To translate the message Blogger is giving me.
And why Spanish?
I write my blog in English.


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Always, Em-Musing

I'M CHALLENGED

Um...
Um...
Um...
Oh, good Lord!
I just signed up for the A - Z Challenge...
And all I get out of my brain is um?
What the...?
Well I better get more then 'um' on Sunday...
Because that's the first day of the challenge...
And I've got a whole alphabet to write about.
Today though, I'm doing a test run of the graphics...
To make sure the A -Z Challenge logo...
Will paste onto my blog...

But as you can see...
 
Here it is.
I just can't put it in my sidebar...
Because when I designed my blog...
I bastardized Blogger's template...
And Blogger has punished me ever since.
Like this week...
They won't display my followers...
First you saw my followers, then not...
Then you saw them again, and now still not.
The other challenge for April is...
Blogger is changing formats...
Lord! 
I pray they still allow me to paste the A-Z Challenge logo.
So...
I guess I'll see you on Sunday...
When I write about "A".
So?...
If you haven't signed on to the A - Z Challenge...
How come?
Or do you ave enough challenges in your writing? 
What are they?

Always, Em-Musing


 
 


 

SWIFFER EDITING

I’m not a mop snob, I swear!
But I am Swedish…
And Swedes are known for cleaning…
(at least my Nana was)
So there I was yesterday in the gym….
And a cleaning lady was moping.
But this lady’s mopping bothered me.
All that mopping just seemed useless…
Because all it was doing was pushing around…
The same old wet grunge on the floor.
And that’s why I like Swiffers…
They trap the dirt on the cloth…
And then the dirty filthy cloth is thrown away.
As I cycled watching this lady push around the wet grunge….
I thought about the edits I’m making on my manuscript when...
HOLY FILTHY WET MOP!
I was editing the same way...
Just pushing and rearranging the same old words…
If I wanted to Swiffer edit…
I’d have to get rid of what wasn’t working.
Once I got home from the gym…
I sat down at my laptop, opened up my manuscript…
Gathered up some phrases, sentences and paragraphs and…
GULP! 
Tossed them.
I then took a shower.
When I came back I looked at what I had edited…
The chapter was better! Cleaner!
So?
Are you good at deep Swiffer editing?
How do you know what’s working and what’s not?

Always, Em-Musing

CHANGE IS NOT GOOD

What the…?
I swear!
Can nothing stay the same?
First my fun font just up and changed...
And now my followers!
They’re gone!
And I mean gone ga ga gone.
Well, not totally true…
I still have them somewhere…
But where?
And why did they go?
Why you ask? You think you can abandon me?
What the…?
That’s right, writer girl, it’s your Blog talking.
But…
Look, just cause your mind went numb…
doesn’t mean I did. You left me!
But…
Oh but my butt!
You don’t have a butt.
OK I may not have a butt, but I had an existence…
People read me from all over the globe…
Like someone from Gouy-lez-pieton, Hainut.
You’re kidding, right?
Don’t’ you ever check anything on your blog?
Where is that country anyway?
I don’t know, but you’re Miss Google Queen. Look it up.
Oh, and by the way, I like the changes you made on your
first chapter of IS IT NOW YET?
Really?
Would your blog lie?
Umm? I don’t know how to answer that.
And it’s time to get your butt in gear…
And send out more submissions.
But I don't know if it's ready…
No butts about it. DO It!
OK I will.
And while I’m doing that…
I’m also gonna try to find my followers again.
So if you’re a new follower, I can’t see you yet...
But I do say, HELLO!
Anyone else have problems with Blogger lately?

Always, Em-Musing