Title not in cement yet

As you know I have been working on my book Charlie.  I haven't been able to settle on a title yet.  Here are some choices I am kicking around:  Charlie;      Charlie Blabs;      Charlie Tells All. 
Need more thought.

The work is going good and after reading one of the blogs, I realized I did a lot of my editing while writing.  I always read what I wrote yesterday and make changes to it today and then write some more new stuff. 

Read a blog about having a color reference notebook.  Sounds like a great idea, this way you don't describe someone's eyes the same way you described another character's in a book.  I will need to start one soon.

Read about how books should be written with three acts like in screen plays.  Made a lot of sense.  As you notice I forgot to make note of the sites I visited.  The muse was working overtime and I had to get to work.

Remember my books Second Chance and Fainting Damsel can be bought at Amazon or Smashwords.

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Complex Characters.

I have been working hard on my story.  I have run into a problem of my characters not behaving.  My good guy has a dark side and my bad guy has a heart.  Hmmm!  They will not behave and do what I tell them.  Oh no, they don't want to be what I want them to be.  Geees!  You know how men can be?

Then also I have been a little depressed, life sometimes gets a person down.  I am fighting my way back up to the surface.  I will shake it off soon and be my normal happy, zany self.

Plus my books are not selling very well and I keep giving myself pep talks to keep going.  I tell myself the third time is charm and etc.  I hope I start listening soon, because I think this is part of the depression problem.

Long time ago when I was younger and my two middle sons were 3 and 4 years old we were driving into town.  You have to remember this was before seat belts and car seat laws had even been dreamed about.  The 3 year old was standing up in the back seat in a spot that would block me from being able to use the mirror to see behind me.  The 4 year old for some reason only known to him realized it and he told his brother to sit down because mom couldn't see behind the car.  The 3 year looked back behind the car and then turned to look in the direction I was driving.  He turns to the 4 year old brother and very seriously said, "Mom isn't backing up."  I am sitting in the front seat chuckling while the 4 year old is trying to explain it to the 3 year old.  He convinced the 3 year old to change his spot and the rest of the trip was made with all of us happy as larks.

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All About me

I have sold a few books and so far all the comments have been good.  I am working hard on another book and hard on trying to keep my two published ebooks out there.  So here it is again:

Second Chance:    http://www.amazon.com/dp/Boo50TI84A
                             http://smashwords.com/books/view/87120


Faintin Damsel:    http://amazon.com/dp/B005RFGJD0
                              http://smashwords.com/books/view/93185

Interesting Reads

I read some interesting blogs today.

Marilag Lubac's blog about concentration reminded me of the time when I was dancing on the stage and how I would forget there was an audience.  I would be so into the music, nothing existed but the music and the movement of my body.

Kate wood's blog about two Gods.  Ares a Greek God and Camulus a Celtic God.  Ares is well known and Camulus is less known.  I love history and even when it is a God who may have or may not have lived I am hooked.

Last night I watched a documentary on Prohibiton in America.  It really was interesting, but like I say I am into history.  A time when politic decided to be a moral watchdog.  Needless to say it didn't work.

The third blog that I found very interesting was When Pigs Fly, it was about writing letters and how the art of letter writing is dying.  I find that sad.  My daughter and her husband moved out of state and that first year I sent a card with tid bits of my life and questions to my daughter every week.  She told me on the day my card would arrive, her whole day would brighten.  Holding a physical card work much better than all the emails we shared at the time also.  Of course we spoke a lot on the phone.  My cards did the same thing for my daughter as the written letter did for the pioneers.  Nothing seemed as important as receiving a letter from home, or a parent receiving a letter from their child who had left their nest to travel the vast unknown.

Do you write letters or send physical cards or is it all internet now?

Do you receive letters or cards?

I know when I receive a card it makes me smile and a happy tune plays in my head.  I like the physical and visual contact of the actual card.

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book links

For my new book Fainting Damsel:  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005RFGJD0
and
at Smashwords:  http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/93185

Talk, read, write

My third book is moving alone, I haven't settled on a title yet.  I either have a long title or a very short title. 

Thank you to the person who is reading my blog and made a comment.  I now know there is someone out there.

Back to the story I am working on now.  There is a mouthy parrot in this story and he wants his thoughts heard.  I keep telling him no, but yet I wonder if I shouldn't let his thoughts be known.  I only have one person POV in the story.  Does the reader need to know the thoughts of all the main characters in a story?  The parrot is one of the main characters, without him there wouldn't be a story or should I tell the story only from the parrot's POV, but I don't really think this will work without my human characters thoughts and feelings moving the story along. 
What do you think?
The story :  Wendy has an unexpected visitor one morning.  It is a parrot who has blood on his feet and feathers, telling her a murder has been committed and Butler did it.  Everyone thinks the parrot means the butler did it.  The cops laugh and think the woman and parrot are crazy.
So far I have only had Wendy's POV, but is it enough?
Let me know what you think.
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So Tired

It has taken me all day to up load my new story Fainting Damsel to Amazon and Smashwords.  Smashwords took the most time because it told me I had a paragraph error.  I finally fixed it.  Whew!  I wish all these sights had the same up load and etc.  Why do they have to be different?  Go figure.
Anyway, my daughter helped me to create the new cover for my Fainting Damsel.  She is so creative.  She smeared corn syrup with read food coloring in it on her floor and took a picture.  It turned out great.  What would we do without our daughters?  I only have one, she is the baby of the family.  She has four older brothers.  Yah, I know, poor kid.  I have to admit she could take care of herself at an early age.  She could make her brother's cry, believe me.
I had planned to spend the day working on my other writing.  Guess I'll have to do it after I rest up and have a few more cups of coffee.

See you around the block.