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6 Sentence Sunday 5: Full Moon

This is a weekly meme hosted and originated by 6 Sentence Sunday.

It’s Like the Full Moon -6 sentences from chapter 2 (a work in progress).

Sitting and waiting was never one of Teddy’s favorite things to do. He might not have been so bothered if he hadn’t just rushed himself away from his own fabulous graduation party. He got there just one and a half minutes late, and now he had to wait for Virgil. He walked up and down the hall of Rebecca’s quaint suburban apartment bouncing a small rubber ball and catching it in midair. Rebecca, Lisa, and TiTi Lucy sat in the living room around the television checking the weather report as Teddy’s annoying behavior began to drive TiTi over the edge.

“Theodor Tinsdale, would you stop that idiotic bouncing already,” she demanded of him.

To participate, pick six (6) sentences from anything you like (it can be from a Work in Progress (WiP), something you recently sold, something you hope to sell or even something already under contract and available for purchase – and don’t worry, Six Sentence Sunday is for published AND unpublished writers). Then post them on your blog on Sunday. That’s all there is to it!

Posts are for bloggers only, but comments are open to all. Please post a link back to Six Sunday, the “anchor” site, to let people know where you heard about the idea. You are not required to list the week’s posters on your post…And don’t be afraid to share the love by adding the hashtag #sixsunday to your tweets about Six Sentence Sunday. You can follow the official Six Sentence Sunday twitter at: https://twitter.com/6_Sunday.

*The informative content listed above was taken directly from the 6 Sentence Sunday website with a few paraphrases for ease of viewing and reading. Please review their FAQs for more details.

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6 Sentence Sunday 02: Full Moon

This is a weekly meme hosted and originated by 6 Sentence Sunday.
It’s Like the Full Moon -6 sentences from chapter 1 (a work in progress).

It was a perfectly elegant early summer night. The night was full and bright with flickering starlight, high up in the New England country sky. All of her closest friends and family had gathered together, about twenty or so perfectly posh people, to celebrate her thirtieth birthday with cheerful glee and calamity.  After the rain had washed out the party at the lakeside gazebo, the caterer had delivered doubled the hors d’oeuvres and no entrées, and TiTi Lucy’s dog had devoured the cake; everyone simply congregated into the main dining hall of the extravagant summer cottage, which had been purchased by her, once again, absent father.

There Rebecca stood straight and tall, as tall as she possible could being only five feet and five inches. She wore her simplistically long and plainly elegant black dress as usual, with her hair pulled back perfectly, into a single straight ponytail.

To participate, pick six (6)
sentences from anything you like (it can be from a Work in Progress (WiP),
something you recently sold, something you hope to sell or even something
already under contract and available for purchase – and don’t worry, Six
Sentence Sunday is for published AND unpublished writers).
Then post them on your blog on Sunday. That’s all there is to it!
Posts are for bloggers only, but comments are open to all. Please post a link back to Six Sunday,
the “anchor” site, to let people know where you heard about the idea. You are
not required to list the week’s posters on your post…And don’t be afraid to
share the love by adding the hashtag #sixsunday to your tweets about Six
Sentence Sunday. You can follow the official Six Sentence Sunday twitter at: https://twitter.com/6_Sunday.
*The informative content listed above was taken directly from the 6 Sentence Sunday website with a few paraphrases for ease of viewing and reading. Please
review their FAQs for more details.
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Unstuck :D

Ok so, I was stuck for a lot longer than I thought I would be. That eleventh chapter of “It’s Like a Full Moon” was haunting and taunting me for days. I couldn’t figure out what to do to mix up the story and move forward. Finally I had a break through.

I have been reading like a mad woman lately trying to finish stories for enjoyment as well as for review. Plus I’ve been fairly busy interviewing other authors, but think it was the interviews that made the light bulb go off in my head. One of the authors I was interviewing answered a question by providing a very unexpected answer. It was clear that there was a misunderstanding about the nature of the question. Once all things were cleared up, the answer made much or sense.

Later as I sat in front of my laptop, staring into to the abyss of white, while my cursor blinked mockingly at me, the words began to rattle around in brain. I started writing and didn’t stop until chapter 12 was completed and my story was ready to take a whole new exciting direction.

What I think I failed to realize before was that even if I came up with a great angle to spin my story on, I couldn’t just have it happen out of the blue.  That’s when I thought about the funny misunderstanding with that interview.  Well after that, it didn’t take long for me to come up with a great misunderstanding for two of my other characters to get caught up in, which just so happen to pull my heroine, Rebecca, right into the middle of.

So now my little romance is making its slow descent from its climatic plateau towards the conclusion of this tale. Hopefully I’ll be able to fill up another ten or so chapters working out a way for Rebecca, Teddy, Lisa, Paul, and even the quirky parents to all find love or at least lifelong companionship. (see article Stuck! For reference)

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I’ve been interviewing authors over at the Eternal Curse Series Blog, check it out to see what author Jimi Akanbi has been up to.

Interview: http://ecsuniverse.blogspot.com/2012/12/interview-06.html

Guest Post: http://ecsuniverse.blogspot.com/2012/12/guest-post-03-jimi-akanbi.html