THE REVIEW

STALWARTS FOUR

Many thanks to Wendy, Jim and Jason for joining me to honour the Ram’s Head at our Meeting on Wednesday.

Jason read first, Chapter 32, “Revised”. Gregg is regaining consciousness in the same realm as his grandmother, but he is strapped to an ambulance gurney and had been assumed to be dead by the EMTs. They are astonished at his return to life, and very reluctant to let him loose even though he’s frantic. He blurts out that he has to find the man he killed. This was a good chapter upping the tension. And Jason has learned to leave a hook at the end of each chapter that makes the reader want to keep going.

In his journey to self-publish with Amazon, Jason said he got his certified copies of his Passport to apply for the W-5 exemption from American income tax. And he also registered with CISS (Canadian ISBN Service System) to obtain his ISBN number. The path to publication is a long one.

Jim read us Chapter 26 from the second book in Coventry Ghosts. This shows Karly and Sara in the library, where Karly is teaching Sara to read. Sara feels frustrated at times but perseveres. Then it’s Sara’s turn to teach Karly how to use the energy from the Aeris to move things in the physical realm. So Sara dumps all the books on the floor and tells Karly to put them all back on the shelves. It took her till dawn to do that.

And Jim said he had finished the re-write and re-submitted his romance novel. So let’s keep our fingers crossed for him.

My daughter-in-law told me my son had been going through old papers and came across a graduation card I had given him when he finished at Royal Military College in 1998. Some writing of mine fell out of the card when he opened it and he realized he hadn’t read it before. So he read it and it brought tears to his eyes. I couldn’t remember what I had sent him so she scanned it and sent it to me. It was a piece I had written several years after my father died, in honour of his memory and since he and my son were very close, it would have touched my son. I read it to the group.

Wendy didn’t read, but her presence and her observations are always appreciated.

Jim and I had both downloaded the free Scrivener software and I spent about three hours or more going through the tutorial. It had some interesting features but both Jim and I felt it would take too much time to become good enough at using the software to make it worthwhile for us as writers. However, the experience did give me some ideas on how to make better use of MS Word.

Margaret Moffatt had two articles in the March issue of Today’s Senior Newsmagazine. One was on the history of Likely, and the other on Horsefly.

Ellie had emailed me to say she was still busy cleaning out her office. Monica said she was travelling. And Ron said he was curling that night and couldn’t attend the Meeting. I am scheduled for surgery again on April 9th, so there will only be two more Meetings before then. My surgeon said approximately one month to recover this time.

Next Meeting will be Wednesday, March 20th at 7:00 p.m. here at my place. Hope to see you then.

Lisa