I didn’t know there are reblooming varieties. That would be so cool if mine did. I’m in zone 7 so should be warm enough for a second season but mine only bloom once.
You got me curious what kind of iris I have.
Lent A. Williamson matches the best (but honestly, there are quite a lot of purple kinds so I could be wrong). This is pretty fascinating and very accurate of my iris.
From J.C. Nicholls Irises catalog for 1928: “S. campanula violet. F. bright royal purple. The large flowers have exceptional substance, and are carried on stout stems. Very free blooming. The strongest grower we have ever seen, and it will thrive and bloom better under neglect and adverse conditions than any other variety in our experience. Was a sensation and is still near the top.”
Let me just giggle that there was such a thing as Iris Catalog.
Oh, yeah, they had become popular a few years back.
Anyway, I gotta go back to the garden, but I had a fairly productive morning setting up character list for my new book and obsessively editing the first two chapters to match the names and to hopefully refine that conflict that Nick wanted and to align things better with Save the Cat strategies (i.e. want/need main character and fixing things the wrong way).
I think the story fits the Right of Passage genre, but, boy, do I hate the Kite Runner that is the sample plot beat sheet for that genre.
And, yes, guys, I am back to Save the Cat, since Story Genius backfired so badly when mated to my horrible-horrible writing style. I will reread the Emo Craft of Writing though once I am all set with plot beats and on my way.
What I need to do is to set my plot against the framework of the 15 plot-beats and see what I am missing… and I really want to get further into chapter 3, but I doubt I will have time.
Big takeaway from it is that according to her, I’m too hard on myself.
It’s still hard to accept it though because of my life experiences. It doesn’t matter if the glass is half-full or half-empty. In the end, it isn’t full.
Therapy helps over time, don’t expect it to magically make things better on the first visit. It’s ok if you feel frustrated. In fact, it may take a few months before you are able to notice a difference. If you have the right therapist for you, it will be worth it though. It takes time and work. Don’t expect your therapist to fix you. They just give you the tools so you can fix your own life. Mental health is hard, and I’m around if you ever need to talk. I wish you the best of luck.
we got a new front desk worker at the hotel and now i work with someone who has the exact same name as a character i killed, violently, in an already published book.
Lol. There might be a reason. Like, could they be one person?
It happened to me once and spooked me.
I wrote a short story in October for Halloween. It was from the point of view of a grandma that, spoiler alert, dies by the end of the story, leaving behind her daughter and two grandchildren, Brian and Emma. I wrote a lot of flash fiction that October so I forgot about that story.
Then in December I wrote a short story for Christmas and it featured a grieving family, a single mother and two children, grieving her mother/grandma.
Then I was rereading it and I thought, wait, didn’t I use a Brian in some other story? And I found it and it spooked me because I did not consciously do that, but apparently the Christmas story is the continuation of the October story.
It’s freaky but maybe my subconsciousness was trying to give this family closure?
So, I’m saying, maybe there’s a reason for the name problem you have.
That’s interesting that you have two Brians now. And that you didn’t know you were subconsciously continuing the other story. As for closure, I’m not sure if any of them need that. I don’t know the reason why myself. Maybe I need to write about them all more?
Okay, 15 plot beats done. The great thing about 15 plotbeats is that it is easy to scale them up and down into a synopsis of any length.
I am fairly pleased, and my chapter 1-3 cover opening snap shot, theme and starts on the set up nicely. I am steal nowhere near chapter 3 progress, but for the moment I am satisfied with the outline.
I have 10 chapters of readings I need to start on tonight…
Maybe I need to write about them all more?
