'What Line is That Anyway!!!!!' Remember: © Sandra Fitzgerald 2014 All rights Reserved. So please, please, yes share if you like, but be respectful of my work. It's taken me a long time to get to this point. Chapter 1: 'The guys have stolen two computer chairs (you know the ones with the wheels) out of a teacher’s staff room, off the senior’s common area.'
Chapter 2: '"Hey." Jon holds his hand out for a fist bump, "'bout ready to take off?" I ask glancing at all the crap littered around his bedroom. The dud is a slob.' Chapter 3: 'We’ve been living in a two bedroom suite courtesy of Clockwork Towers for about three weeks. Life’s been routine, nothing overly exciting.' Chapter 4: 'Dad, being the awesome parent that he is, has gotten me a job at Clockwork Towers.' Chapter 5: 'After the fastest four floor ascent in history, I secure my hold on Sophie and continue carrying her into a common area.' Chapter 6: 'I can't believe what I've done.' Chapter 7: "Honey? You here?" Chapter 8: 'Marty keeps smoothing down the front of her fitted dress and fidgeting with the sliver chain I gave her for Christmas, sipping white wine as she takes in the place.' Chapter 9: 'I wake before my alarm, reach out and take my phone from the side table and turn it off, then check for messages and missed calls out of habit.' Chapter 10: 'We’ve decided to eat dinner at the hotel and see how things progress from there.' Chapter 11: '“Son, you want to come into my office for a minute please.” If Dad’s expression is anything to go by, there is definitely some serious thought bouncing going on inside his head.' Chapter 12: '"Whoa, hang on . . . let me just . . ."' Chapter 13: 'I'm dozing, warm and relaxed despite the thick prickling rug .' Chapter 14: 'I unfold a few notes from my wallet and hand them over the counter to a young guy with stringy dark hair and a bad case of acne.' Chapter 15: 'I have the good sense to shower with Sophie this morning instead on insisting she goes first.' Chapter 16: '"You look beautiful baby."' Chapter 17: 'Have you ever been so guttered the wind is instantly knocked out of you and so blindsided you can think straight?' Chapter 18: '"What the fuck man?"' Chapter 19: 'Jon's off to see the Wizard.' Chapter 20: 'Loud banging on the front door has me leaping out of bed and hopping into the pair of boxers I tossed aside about a half hour ago.' Chapter 21: '"What the . . ."' Chapter 22: '"Do you know what I walked out to this morning?"' Chapter 23: 'I'm relaxing on a lounge chair; my beer hanging loosely from my fingers, dangling by my side.' Chapter 24: 'My phone’s vibrating, crawling its way across on my bare chest while I finish typing a paragraph.' Happy New Year! I may have, sort of, kind of, slipped off the face of the earth for a minute there. But I'm back. I think. So I've been holidaying, searching for the sun (it seems to have gone missing), caught some waves (or they could have caught me). Climbed a mountain, took a chairlift, spent hours sitting in a car listening to extraordinarily bad jokes. and i finished writing a manuscript. We met Luke in Maggie's story. But we didn't learn a whole lot about him. Oh, sure we know he's on the right side of ugly, very lick-able, and sweet enough to give you toothache. And, oh what an ache. NB: This is Luke's story, not his version of Maggie's. It can be read as a stand-alone, but may make more sense if you read Maggie's Five first. You decide. Problem . . . My brain doesn't want to get out of holiday mode to finish the drafting/editing. To help get me out of my funk, I thought it would be fun to share the first line of every chapter as I go. Unless it's going to give too much away, then I'll pass or give offer up different one. I've got to keep some secrets up my sleeve. I could also decide that it's not rocking my world and change it. Remember: © Sandra Fitzgerald 2014 All rights Reserved. So please, please, yes share if you like, but be respectful of my work. It's taken me a long time to get to this point. I'm calling it . . . 'What Line is That Anyway!!!!!' I only decided this when I got stuck on chapter 7, so that's where we're starting. © Sandra Fitzgerald 2014 All rights Reserved Chapter 7: "Honey? You here?" Chapter 8: 'Marty keeps smoothing down the front of her fitted dress and fidgeting with the sliver chain I gave her for Christmas, sipping white wine as she takes in the place.' Chapter 9: 'I wake before my alarm, reach out and take my phone from the side table and turn it off, then check for messages and missed calls out of habit.' Chapter 10: 'We’ve decided to eat dinner at the hotel and see how things progress from there.' As always, I love to hear from you, so click on the comments icon up there and I promise to get back to you as soon as I can :)
As an Indie Author and consequently, financially anorexic, one of the biggest struggles I have is editing. With a couple of manuscripts under my belt (Maggie’s Five is out and Luke’s Five is up for release in 2015. Oh, the joy!) I have a new found respect for every single editor out there. Yay You! I have come to learn – very quickly – that editing is a lot harder than it looks and that being an avid reader does not really help locate the mistakes on a manuscript I have written and read over a dozen times. I found I have tendency to automatically self-correct without consciously seeing the errors, and thus, (**dramatic sigh***) they go undetected. Over and over and- you get the point. The other area I am always getting confused by is punctuating dialogue and direct quotations. Just quietly and no offence intended, i have a sneaky feeling that I’m not the only one. As a reader, I’m pretty forgiving and as one of the healthiest culprits, hope that my readers are too. You could say I’m a work in progress kind of girl. But I am working on it. I imagine some of this goes in the ‘Lost in Translation’ basket, (different countries – different rules and all that) now that we’re all about the WWW. No – I’m not talking about wrestling, though powerful muscular topless men in tight clothing . . . I am, of course, referring to the wondrous Webmosphere that is making our pretty blue planet much smaller and accessible. In my never ending endeavour at least appear like I know what I’m doing I came across this work sheet: Punctuating Dialogue and Direct Quotations: A dozen Rules. http://teacherweb.com/FL/PembrokePinesCharterHighSchool/Cabeza/punctuating1.pdf The sheet covers these things like . . . 1. Use quotation marks to begin and end a direct quotation. Separate the quoted material from the dialogue tag by commas. Do not use quotation marks to set off an indirect quotation. 2. If a question mark or an exclamation point occurs where one of the separating commas should be used, omit the comma and use the question mark or exclamation point to separate the quoted material. 3. The speaker’s words are set off from the rest of the sentence with quotation marks, and the first word of the quotation is capitalized. When the end of the quotation is also the end of the sentence, the period falls inside the quotation marks. 4. Both parts of a divided quotation are enclosed in quotation marks. The first word of the second part is not capitalized unless it begins a new sentence. 5. When writing only a part of a quoted sentence, do not begin the quotation with a capital letter unless the person you are quoting capitalized it or it is the first word in your sentence. 6. Quotes within quotes: If you need to have one character directly quoting another character, then use double quotes for your main dialogue and single quotes for the quote-within-a-quote. Hope you put your best comma forward , or at least know where to put it. ;) Cheers and Happy Reading Sandra It appears time has run out for the humble eye candy. It’s sad but true. I never thought that having a good perv at a hottie would ever become super-seated for hot computer graphics. Alas, there is no more pretty-boy (or girl) eye candy for you. Now it’s all about the extra graphics to make a (Web) page look better. It is good to know though, that some things haven’t changed. You see, as with all excessive steroid use, Less is still More. And when did PDF turn into a curse word? Seriously, when did that PDFing happen! The once humble changer of word documents is, tearfully, not so humble any longer. These days it’s all about TMI and being photoshopped. The Plug-and-play so you can Rant-and-rave. Honestly, it’s enough to cause my old brain boil and wonder if it’s time to opt-out. Sometimes I feel like I’m in perpetual yoyo-mode, flat out surfin for showstoppers or stressing over becoming unplugged. New Age Tech Stuff To Help Us Deal With New Age Tech Brains. Here’s a few that I've found so far. URL: A uniform resource locator (abbreviated URL) also known as a web address, (particularly when used with HTTP) is a specific character string that constitutes a reference to a resource. Most web browsers display the URL of a web page above the page in an address bar (thanks Wikipedia! You’re great.) SEO: Search engine optimization is the process of affecting the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine's "natural" or un-paid ("organic") search results. In general, the earlier (or higher ranked on the search results page), and more frequently a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine's users. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, video search, academic search,[1] news search and industry-specific vertical search engines. (Yup - Curtesy of Wikipedia) ARC: Advanced reader copy. A free, not-quite-final version of a book often distributed to reviewers or book convention attendees. (According to the online Urban Dictionary) And here are some definitions from www.netlingo.com/top50/common-ecpressions. You can go there to find out more. opt-out - Any time a user requests to be removed from any kind of online program - See more at: http://www.netlingo.com/top50/common-expressions.php#sthash.BJOha25A.dpuf photoshopped - A play on the word "Photoshop," the software graphics program created by Adobe - See more at: http://www.netlingo.com/top50/common-expressions.php#sthash.BJOha25A.dpuf plug-and-play - A standard for add-in hardware that requires it to identify itself on demand - See more at: http://www.netlingo.com/top50/common-expressions.php#sthash.dCoJO21K.dpuf rant-and-rave - To speak on and on about something you feel passionate for - See more at: http://www.netlingo.com/top50/common-expressions.php#sthash.dCoJO21K.dpuf spammin' - Slang for speaking aimlessly on a mishmash of topics, - See more at: http://www.netlingo.com/top50/common-expressions.php#sthash.dCoJO21K.dpuf showstopper - Slang for anything that has the potential to halt the shipment or to stop the launch - See more at: http://www.netlingo.com/top50/common-expressions.php#sthash.dCoJO21K.dpuf surf or surfing - To browse or look at information on the Web by pointing and clicking and navigating.. - See more at: http://www.netlingo.com/top50/common-expressions.php#sthash.dCoJO21K.dpuf thread - Originally it referred to a chain of postings on a single subject in a newsgroup - See more at: http://www.netlingo.com/top50/common-expressions.php#sthash.dCoJO21K.dpuf TMI - Online jargon, also known as text message shorthand, used primarily in texting, - See more at: http://www.netlingo.com/top50/common-expressions.php#sthash.dCoJO21K.dpuf unplugged - Slang for being not connected. The opposite of wired. - See more at: http://www.netlingo.com/top50/common-expressions.php#sthash.dCoJO21K.dpuf yoyo mode - The state in which a computer rapidly alternates several times between being up and - See more at: http://www.netlingo.com/top50/common-expressions.php#sthash.dCoJO21K.dpuf Cheers and Happy Reading :)
Today is my BIG DAY! Happy Birthday Everyone <:)) Because today is the day my number goes up
(Ugh that's totally like swearing) Maggie's Five is going down. From August 18 to August 25 Maggie's ebook is only .99c http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LKMGP4M To help celebrate my BIG day, I've been sharing a quote from Maggie's Five every for the past seven days. If you missed any of them here they are. Hope you like them. Happy Reading <:) Maggie's Quote #1 Maggie's Quote #2 Maggie's Quote #3 Maggie's Quote #4 Maggie's Quote #5 Maggie's Quote #6 Maggie's Quote #7
All you need to do to get involved is follow the link: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/102042-maggie-s-five and click on the 'Enter to Win' button. Happy Reading xx
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