Being a huge Alan Rickman fan, I’ve always wanted the Die Hard franchise to bring him back as his brother. Alas, that’s not to be but at least this Christmas season, they’re bringing in his son. I also love that they are using one of my favorite bands’ music in the film. At about 1:40 mins into this trailer is the music of TSO- Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Now, if they could only resurrect Hans, it’d be perfection.
My son has recently turned in his dissertation for his master’s degree from the University of Sheffield in the UK. He has also entered some design competitions. ArchDaily has published one of his (and two other friends) designs. So proud of his talent and dedication. Check it out here.
Check out this blog post. Flossie Invited Jillian over to visit and she’s chatting about surfing. Not the internet either.
Surfer Bride is on sale for half price through September 29, 2012. BUY LINK
I decided at the end of August to start a new novel with Venice as the setting. I’m totally a pantser when I write which is defined as not writing from a plot outline but from the seat of the pants. I usually start with protagonists’ names and not much else. Here are the notes I started with for this Venice story with no title 
yet. Fourteen days after I started writing, I had the first draft done. Ready now to polish and make it pretty enough to send out.
New story.
Vincente Canaletto
Charlotte Bolling
Venice. He’s a water taxi driver – they meet when he drives her from train station. She thinks he’s a lowly driver but he actually owns a fleet of them.
She’s an architect? Artist? She’s there to do research for something or paint?
He calls her Carlotta.
Yep, That’s all I had. I amaze myself sometimes when I think that from such a small seed, that a whole story can grow. This was a record first draft for me and I’m super excited about how it turned out- maybe I won’t be once I read it again! LOL!
Today is release day for Jillian Chantal for a beach short story. Check it out here.
My friend Jillian is blogging today here about naming characters. One of the hardest things can be getting that character name just right. Sometimes the writer has to change that name mid-book if the character just isn’t responding. How many times have you had to do that as a writer?
Today, Tropical storm Isaac is supposed to make land fall. We are home since we don’t want to be caught out in it even though we are only getting the outer part of the storm. It’s crazy though because it’s not your typical tropical storm. We are having the dark, rainy, windy bands of bad weather but then, miraculously, we are then having nice, beautiful blue skies and sun as well. It seems to be a bi-polar storm. Let’s hope the bad bands stay few and far between.
Here’s hoping all my friends to the west of me stay safe and keep their power!!
Ramblings of a Writer 