I am in the early stages of the NASCAR double-feature with the cut-off races for both the Camping World Truck Series and the Xfinity Series. Can I just say what an amazing invention the PVR (DVR for my American readers) is? I can set my PVR to record these races, have an afternoon nap and then watch the race – and be able to fast forward through the commercials. The only drawback is you have to stay off social media, etc. so you don’t have the results spoiled. (And having NASCAR.com as your home page in your web browser doesn’t help matters.)
I have to be honest, having an excuse to stay off Facebook (or whatever it’s called now), Twitter, etc. is actually a positive. I find if you are checking social media all the time, there’s not much to see but if you stay off for a while, there’s….well, there’s still not much to see if you want to be truly honest about it. Okay, forget I said anything. LOL!
As some of you may know, I am an aspiring novelist. I have two complete novels (plus a non-fiction book) that I would some day like to get published. I also have ideas for at least two more novels. Meanwhile, I have been working here and there to have a third completed novel. It’s just a matter of finding the courage to reach out to some publishers/agents and getting them published. (If anyone out there has any ideas about getting novels published, let me know.)
The reason I bring this up is the latest novel I am working on is an “accompaniment” to one of my previous novels. One of the main characters in my previous novel is the author of a novel chronicling those events in this “accompaniment”. Over the last few weeks, months perhaps, I just haven’t felt like I was going in the right direction. This morning, I was lying in bed and I thought about changing a major aspect of the main character’s life – and demoting another major character to a minor one – and realized just how much of a difference that would make. This isn’t quite a scenario where everything falls into place but it certainly opens up some exciting possibilities and has me excited about writing this novel again.
It’s going to be a quiet weekend – at least that’s the plan – around the Milner household. My folks and I are staying close to home (and will definitely be trying to do the same when it starts SNOWING late next week) to watch the Cup cutoff race and then 1917. (Crave TV just freed up a bunch of movies so when NASCAR comes to an end for the season, that might be how I spend my weekends.)
I have been whittling down my To Do list over this weekend. (Still got a bunch of things to do, mind you.) One of the things I was able to cross off my To Do list was the update for the latest issue of Shelf Life Magazine for the website. With it already being November, check it out for some great gift ideas. I already found one gift for my Mom because of it.
Happy (and healthy) Hallowe’en everyone!
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