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Breathing Life into Your Characters, Round Robin, 4-22-23

Breathing Life into Your CharactersA Round Robin Blog, 4-22-23 Lila poked at the sword. Nearly the length of her legs, it was impressive, but why would Jen think this was a good birthday gift? She raised an eyebrow at her best friend. Jen grinned, her brown eyes...

Finding your writing mojo-January 21, 2023, Round Robin

Finding your writing mojoIt's a new year with possibilities to start anew--although I've never really subscribed to this thought process. Every day is a new beginning with the potential to start over, change directions, etc. Even with that mentality, I have been...

What messages do your books give your readers?—Round Robin, 3-19-22

What messages do your books give your readers? When I write books, I don’t start out thinking they’ll have a message. Honestly, it’s the character’s story. Any message that ends up in the book comes directly from the character/characters. And I’m usually just as...

1 hour swim workout, SCAQ Sunday, 2-20-22

Bill likes to push a some. This was a push. After the warmup, a swimmer in the lane next to me said, "If only we could do this entire workout as 25s." I laughed and said, "Yeah, but you know Bill would make that hurt." He laughed and agreed. It's not a bad thing at...

2-19-22 – Flawed characters-Round Robin

Flawed CharactersDescribe a flawed character you might use in a story. How did they become so flawed? What part will they play in the story and what will happen to them? All of my characters are flawed. A perfect character would be boring. There would be no character...

1 hour plus swim workout, Saturday swim with friends, 2-12-22

We had a packed three lanes today with five people in each lane. It was a balmy 75º. This is our annual week or two of summer in winter. While I enjoy it, hopefully, we'll be back to cool temps and rain soon. 1 hour plus swim workout, Saturday swim with friendsMichael...

1 hour swim workout, SCAQ Thursday, 2-10-22

I came expecting Coach Rada and a stroke (IM) workout. Obviously, she wasn't, but Coach Steve was. The fun thing about having different coaches is the variety of workouts we get. Each coach has a different style. Although Thursdays are usually stroke day, this was...

1 hour 10 minute swim workout, Wednesday swim with friends, 2-9-22

1 hour 10 minute swim workout, Wednesday swim with friends550 warmup (?min) Warmup set 2x (1000 yds, 15 min) 5 x 100 on 1:30 :30 rest between sets Main set (1900 yds, 31:40 min) Set 1 — 3x (900 yds, 14 min) 150 on 2:20 100 on 1:30/1:25/1:20 by round 50 on :50/:55/1:00...

1 hour swim workout, Saturday with friends, 2-5-22

1 hour swim workout, Saturday with friendsMichael Chang/Diane 600 warmup (~8:30 min) Warmup set (650 yds, 14:10 min) 2 x 50 kick on 1:05 2 x 50 drill on 1:00 2 x 50 swim on :55 2 x 50 drill on 1:00 2 x 50 kick on 1:05 1:00 rest 3 x 50 on 1:00–count strokes Main set...

1 hour swim workout, sprint Friday with SCAQ, 2-4-22

There was a discussion about flip turns this morning. As I'm always up for improving (and my flip turn was slow compared to other swimmers), I watched a few flip turn videos. Honestly, I don't think there's much wrong with my form (not that it couldn't be better--I'm...