A new month, March, is here and I hope it will help to get me organized and focused. As usual, I go into a new book with an overall plot plan in my head, which gets me going. But an overall plan means many divergent paths and I tend to jump from one to another as I dream up new stuff. It's not really a waste of time because I can save all of the drivel and go back to cut and paste it into the book as needed. This is my version of the "Shotgun approach". Sometimes the pattern is too wide and you have to choke down to get back on track.
Had to laugh last night. As I was writing about weather in Powers Trace the NOAA radio beeped warning of tornadoes in the area. Then the TV guy started talking about snow, yeah SNOW on the 1st of March. I think it is wishful thinking but, I can assure you, anytime the weather guy even hints at a possible snow flake in this area half a dozen good-ole-boys start digging through the basement looking for the snow chains. This morning the sky is a dark gray, the wind is picking up and snow IS falling in Alabama. For the kids sake I hope it comes here. I have friends who have lived in this area for decades and have never seen a real snow flake.
Small towns are not unusual or outdated. This great land has many places with people who know what the word neighbor means, who always put hand to heart as the flag passes during the Fourth of July parade, and raise a ruckus with their hymn singing in church on a Sunday morning.
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