Monday, May 2, 2011

Teresa's Mind Spring: A Game of Tag#links

Teresa's Mind Spring: A Game of Tag#links

Teresa. I was just roaming around looking for writers. I think I found one. I want to play tag.
4 places I like to go: Walking near the marsh in my neighborhood. To Publix to buy buy raspberries and sour dough bread. To Queen Nails for a pedicure. To my garden to deadhead pansies.
4 smells - the ocean, my husband's after shave, homemade bread baking, coffee kisses
4 movies - The Sixth Sense, Chicago, An Affair to Remember, A Beautiful Mind,
4 Recommendations - Follow your dreams. Have faith in yourself. Eat more of what you love. Take one day at a time.

William and Kate - A Fairytale

Now that we have the royal couple married off, I guess it’s time to step out of their fairytale and go on with our own lives. I must admit that William and Kate looked fantastic and also very much in love. I didn’t get up in the wee hours of the morning to watch the wedding festivities, but I did view the evening highlights and check some of the details on the internet. It looks like Kate’s pretty sister, Pippa, made a big hit. I don’t think she’ll be lacking for dates. Hmm, how about Harry and Pippa. Wouldn’t that be a trippa?

Okay, okay, I know I am getting silly. It’s time to wish the newlyweds well. Here’s hoping the media heeds their pleas to leave them alone. I certainly hope so. Now, it’s time to slide on to the next subject.

I want to give you an update on Tessa of “Tessa and Claudine” fame. Well, my novel “Tessa and Claudine” is not exactly famous. It’s still in the works, but I am simply getting Tessa ready for the celebrity routine. I don’t want to take her by surprise.

At this point, in Chapter 15, Tessa is anxious to go off to college. Her sister is married now (to a guy she thinks is a real creep), and Tessa is eager to take wing. Leila, her stepfather, Harry’s, mother, a loud Italian lady from the Bronx, has just left, after visiting for a week and sharing a room with Tessa (much to her dismay). Soon after Leila leaves, Tessa writes to her good friend, David Finkelstein, who goes to college at the University of Missouri, telling him details about Leila’s visit. (probably much more than he wants to hear) Tessa is disappointed because David has decided to go to summer school. She had big plans for them during her summer vacation. Before she can finish her note to David, she hears a loud pounding on their apartment door. Tessa soon finds herself in the midst of a family emergency.

This chapter is not a fairytale. Not even I expected it to end the way it did.

Tessa is definitely growing up.

Are you working on a novel or ready to publish a book. Leave a comment, tell me about your work. I'll will be happy to help publicize it. Besides, I'd like to meet your characters -- Tessa would too. (She hates being left out.)

Bye for now. Lisbeth