I made a book trailer. Well, okay. It isn't a real, official one. But it's super-duper fun anyway! It's a Google/YouTube app. And yay! That also means that I FINALLY have something on my YouTube channel if/when anyone clicks there from my contact page! :-) Please check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Gunho0C9o [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Gunho0C9o&hl=en_US&fs=1&]
I added a few new entries on my blog this week. They're all about yard work and writing and... writing, I think. Oh, and also dreams related to writing. Yup! http://mindiscott.livejournal.com/ Edit: And on Sunday, April 25th, I just added a new entry about Goodreads.
What a cool idea! I got this from . Google/YouTube has an app to make a super-fun SearchStory.
Here's mine for FREEFALL:
If I had a time machine, I would tell my 23-year-old self NOT to buy a house with a big yard and lots of trees and flower beds and junk like that.
Because, as I learned shortly after we bought this place, I hate doing yard work, my golf course assistant superintendent husband doesn't like working outside when he isn't getting paid, and ALSO? We can't afford to pay anyone else to do it for us.
Today I did a stint of work in the front yard at Dwayne's request. I trimmed the hydrangeas back, ripped out some weeds, and piled all the clippings up while he trimmed the climber plant on the front of the house and raked the flower beds.
Here are some of the things we talked about, just so you feel like you'll were there:
I scream.
Him: What?
Me: There's a worm here. Like, crawling by me! It's wiggling all over!
Him: That's what worms do. They live in soil.
Me: Well, I don't think we should be out here then. It seems particularly cruel to disturb these poor creatures that aren't used to being disturbed.
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Me: I will never forgive you for this.
Him: For what? Forcing you to work your land?
Me: For putting sludge in our wheel baron and making it smell like a pig pen!
Him: I didn't put sludge in it. It just turned into sludge because it's been sitting there all winter composting.
Me: Well, I just wish you hadn't done it, that's all. It's unforgivable.
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I scream.
Him: What?
Me: This bug! It's a big, humongous bug!
Him: It's a beetle. Beetles are good for yards. And, wow. That is a big one!
Me: I know! And it's crawling around right next to me!
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I pick up a pile of bleeding hearts after Dwayne trims them back.
Me: What should I do with these? Throw them into the big pile or make a flower arrangement with them?
Dwayne: You can do whatever you want.
Me: I think I'll just throw them in the pile.
Dwayne: That's the Mindi I know!
I decided today to rework my outline to figure out my next steps with my current project.
Ten hours later, I was feeling . . . overwhelmed.
I have good scenes. I know that I do. I just don't have ALL the scenes I'm going to need. I'm ripping out an entire subplot, and I think I've found one to replace it, but I don't know how it should all play out. I don't know how it fits with the rest of what I'm trying to do.
Unrelated (SPOILER! but not really, as it turned out), I decided to pull up the original FREEFALL (at that time, THE FAKE MCCOY) draft and see if there are some deleted scenes I can post here closer to or after the release, just for fun . I scanned through the draft and to my surprise and amazement, actually there aren't any deleted scenes. Lots of things were altered and moved around and lots and lots of stuff was added in revisions, but there is very little here that wasn't used in some capacity.
That's exciting to me, actually! Just one of those little reminders that I've done this before and I can do it again.
Anyway, I just found a file called "Old chapter drafts not likely to be used." I'm pretty sure there are deleted scenes galore in there...
