Here is post #3 which I put together in the pain and agony of the aftermath of falling clumsily down the mountain skiing on Blackcomb Mountain yesterday. I don’t know what happened, I just kept falling! My sweet husband didn’t laugh once, though my daughter and I were breathless with laughter as I lay there with snow up my back and down my pants. But how could I have been anything less than cheerful with the sun (mostly) out, a view that left me speechless, and Grandpa watching Henry the whole day ( oh, he made me pay for that last night. “What’s that Mommy? You want a day off? I’ll give you a day off…by crying for an hour before falling asleep! How d’you like them apples?”). So, not only am I one human-sized bruise, I’m also exhausted. But still smiling because it was SO worth it! And we’re going to do it all again today:D
This is not a photo blog but I promised pictures:
“What’s this?” you might be asking yourself right now. Unless I happen to be a fat baby an d the ski hill looks strangely like a subdued cat, I’ve put up the wrong picture. Well, for some reason I can’t put up those pictures so I decided to put a picture of my son harassing the cat instead….because I can.
Writing exercises:
  • Take a piece of your writing that you have written in first person and rewrite it in third person, or vice-versa. You can also try this exercise changing tense, narrators, or other stylistic elements. Don’t do this with an entire book. Stick to shorter works. Once you commit to a style for a book, never look back or you will spend all of your time rewriting instead of writing.
  • Try to identify your earliest childhood memory. Write down everything you can remember about it. Rewrite it as a scene. You may choose to do this from your current perspective or from the perspective you had at that age.
  • Remember an old argument you had with another person. Write about the argument from the point of view of the other person. Remember that the idea is to see the argument from their perspective, no your own. This is an exercise in voice, not in proving yourself right or wrong.