Library Programs

 Hello everybody!

 Sorry I haven't been posting for a while. The holidays caught up with me, and January has been very eventful.

 Well, I am posting here to let you all know that I have two library programs, going to be held at the Tustin Library, coming here in the beginning months of the new year.

 The first will be a teen program, focused on writing a novel and getting published, the in's and out's of taking your work from on the computer into book form. This will be held on February 8th, at 7pm. If you know or have any teens who like to write, I would love to see them there!

 The second will be a children's program, focused on illustrating a book. Interactive, getting the children's idea's and opinions on the artwork, complete with Irish games and Irish sweets! This will be held on March 14th, at 4pm. If you have any tiny tots you think would enjoy this, please bring them!

 I hope to see you all!

~  Meadow

"Imagination is more important than knowledge..."

~ Albert Einstein ~

Writing is a Funny Thing

 Hello everyone! I have another chapter in book three completed today, after many hours of work (whew) It is amazing how long the writing process takes, especially if you haven't written in a few days. I always find that I have to go and re-read over everything I had written the last time, get back into the world I have created, and then start to write. Quite time consuming.

 It is truly amazing, I find, how real my characters have become to me. Each has their own personalities, quarks, little things only they do, and I feel when I am writing them that I am not creating what happens, instead only listening and chronicling what has gone on in these characters lives. Especially when I think one thing is going to happen then when I write I find out that something totally different is actually occurring. Writing is a funny thing.

"It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does." ~ William Faulkner ~

Writing Frustration

 So I am currently working on chapter six of book three, and I find I drive myself crazy when I use the same phrases over and over. I don't even intend for it to happen, but there I am typing away, and then I read over what I wrote and I see way too many "furrowed his brow" and "he/she smiled". (slaps forehead)

 I just wish I had a dictionary in my head that I could look over whenever I need a new word because the ones I use I use too much . . . Well, here we go, re-write re-write.

"This is just bad writing." ~ Secret Window, Stephen King - Mort, played by Johnny Depp ~

December Event

Hello everyone!Wednesday, December 7th at 5:00pm, I will be at the Brea Library doing a children's program on illustrating a novel. I'm going to be dressed up in a fairy costume to get the children's attention, and am going to draw for them and talk to them about writing and illustrating a book. There will be candy and other sweets for the children, Irish games, and at the end of the program, one child (whose name gets drawn) will get to take the picture I draw during the program home.

 It is an open event, so anyone who has a young child they think would like the program, please come! I'd love to see you there!

Quote For Today

"Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning:  I wanted to know what I was going to say. " ~Sharon O'Brien~

Book Signing in Big Bear

 Hey everyone! I had a book siging in Big Bear this weekend, at the Big Bear Book & Bean, which went very well. Thank you to all who helped me that weekend. Also (crazily) when I was up in the mountians, I went to this wonderful burger place I used to go to when I lived up there called "Get the Burger" (best burgers arround, if you ever find yourself in Big Bear you must try it) and I went in and happened to see the owner. He found out about my book, had me sign one, took my picture, and put me on their wall of fame next to Adam Sander and Mel Blanc!