Monday, July 17, 2017

"Fireblossom and the Dream Weaver"

I feel bad for the characters I have to deal with for the current work.

They were "semi-sort-of-made-real" way back in the 1980's when I started the story. It actually started out as a tale of Amy helping Max Rockatansky when he was old and couldn't see for a Creative Writing class. It was a C at best because it involved some of the danger from that series. It went into my desk and was eventually forgotten.

By 1988/89, the characters changed to a young witch, who'd been really young when her father and herself were expelled from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Max became the second son of a Lord of Colby, newly granted the name SIR Maxwell Colburn.

They granted me five initial notebooks of the story.

And then I decided to "do some research".....


Do you know how PISSED you make your characters when you stuff them into a box and haul them through several houses before you complete the "research" and start again?

Let me put it to you this way, which is the way it appears to happen to ME.....


Amy McCullum, a cute redhead with the greenest of green eyes, is just blossoming into a fine lady. She's been raised by the Indians, primarily, but has some of her father's "life lessons". (She's only been orphaned for three years.)

She thinks I took TOO LONG for the research.

Sir Maxwell, tall, dark and handsome, has developed a certain type of egotistical mastery I've got to figure out how to deal with. He's regally pointing out that a girl of Amy's standards should have to be MUCH lower on his scales, DESPITE the fact that she makes his heart do a stutter-step every day.....


And I've got to get them together for a while further.....


Wish me luck......

Saturday, July 1, 2017

Trump, LePage and the Decimation of the USA

Here in Maine, we have Governor Paul LePage - whom I haven't figured out HOW we ended up with HIM again - who is "making Maine shut down". The reason?

THE VOTERS RULED THAT WE MAKE PEOPLE WHO EARN OVER $200,000 PAY AN EXTRA 3% TO GO TO THE SCHOOLS!

We've been bickering, negotiating, etc. TRYING to get him to let go of his "Trump would do THIS"....

And I've mentioned on Twitter and Facebook what he would do if, instead of the pages of the budget he's expecting, we put Impeachment Papers........

*sad face*

And the Cheeto Burrito?

Don't get me started on HIM!

Since he's been inaugurated, he's lied, cheated, blamed others for his sins.....

Can you tell I'm wishing for Karma to "Take Out The Cheeto Burrito"? Nothing devastating, like a nuclear hit on the White House, but enough to make him decide he DOESN'T like this job and he's backing out before he does more damage.

PLEASE!

But at least this week, I'm seeing some hope.....

I'm seeing Republicans who have been 100% for the President taken aback.....

I'm seeing Spencer's replacement falter....,..

I'm seeing the GOP cower at the fact that he's purported to be Republican.....

And I'm seeing the power-mad Congress starting to fold.....

And as long as there's hope......

(I'm leaving you with the story from the Boston Globe:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/06/30/maine-senate-gives-initial-budget/omGsdYeYyjoGTse6aPlNXM/story.html )



November 28, 2017: Adding on....

This is the week that the Senate will vote on Trump's Tax Bill https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/27/us/politics/senate-tax-bills-potential-hurdle-republicans.html

Facebook friends are trying to tell me to "let it go", but this is worse that his "skinny bill". Add to the fact that the Koch Brothers managed to acquire Time Inc. several days after they said "We announce the Person of the Year on December 6" and it sincerely looks like, after Christmas, it's time to Impeach Trump......

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/25/politics/donald-trump-time-magazine/index.html

That is if you disagree with the Koch Brothers and DON'T wish to see his smug face as Time's "Person of the Year".....because that would play into our President's narcissism (noun: excessive or erotic interest in oneself and one's physical appearance).