Market Choice
I find myself in an interesting position now, and I suspect my Turtleduck compatriots are feeling much the same.
Never before have I really thought about where a story will end up while I'm still in the planning or writing stages of a project. It's always been "I'll write this, and worry about what I'm going to do with it later."
Dancing My Passion
I've long been interested in all kinds of dance and music. Over the years I've taken piano lessons, played in school bands, sung in choirs, gone to concerts and dance performances. More recently I've taken a variety of dance lessons, looking for the kind of dance that would speak to me.
Hip hop and salsa weren't it. Flamenco was closer – all that drama and Spanish guitar, and the close attention to technique. Belly dance held some of the same attraction as flamenco, but I didn't fall in love with either one.
Then I discovered contra dance.
Hey, Mister, Got a Fact?
I have a problem.
No, I mean...I have a Problem. A big problem. An I-need-a-12-step-program problem, only I wouldn't go because I don't want to recover. It's fun. I like it.
You see...I want to know everything. Ever.
Oh, not gossip, or basketball scores, or how many hairs are on my arm--I want to know all the cool stuff.
All of it.
Did you know there are no rivers in the northern half of the Yucatán peninsula? The whole thing is karst! Local people access fresh water from the cenotes.
Without Wings
Love is a wonderful thing...most of the time. But sometimes, love goes bad. It becomes something horrible and wrong. It hurts more than it uplifts. It haunts you. It taunts you. It becomes a nightmare.
I've been in love enough times to be intimately familiar with both sides, the dark and the light. The happy and the sad. The wrong (too many times) and the right (once). In fact, it took me 30 years to find The One after many near misses (one ill-fated engagement that ended badly and one actual marriage that was right at the time, but hurt too much to continue). I'm happy to report that I'm happy and I'm in a solid, healthy relationship with the best husband on the planet. It took me quite awhile to get here, and the journey is what lead me to write Without Wings, my second chapbook, which is releasing on April 1st.
