Many of you know that I’m really into motivating people to achieve their dreams. At 54, I’ve done a lot of what I wanted to do but there is so much more. I recently found this site which highlights people who have made a big change in their lives. They are older people, yet I thought, how much of an adventure is that?? Here’s the site. Check it out. I think, like I did, you’ll find it invigorating and motivating. If you want to have a particular adventure, now’s the time. It’s called Second Act and I found it on yahoo. Here’s the link: http://vitality.yahoo.com/video-second-act-lisa-fisco-20332366. This one is on a female weight lifter, which is what originally caught my eye (as some of you know, I love to lift). Oh, and another one that I thought was really incredible was the one on Donald Arthur. Simply scroll through the screens. These are people who empower.

Enjoy, and many blessings!

Lise

(also writing as Elle Amour)

www.lisefuller.com, www.elleamour.com

Claimed and Guardian Angel now out with Ellora’s Cave.

Intimate Deceptions now in print with Ellora’s Cave.

I’m having one of those, “I have too many books to write,” dilemmas. You’re familiar with those, right? You see, I have at least two ongoing series, and books to write for each of them. And, of course, I started a new project and

series instead. But I digress. One of the series, Hunters for Hire, is a multi-author science fiction series for which I helped to write the series bible. My first book in a planned trilogy for the series, Tomorrow, came out over a year and a half ago. And I haven’t started the next one yet. I was hoping to have it out this year, but clearly that is not happening. So, next year. But it will have been so long between books I may have to revise the book a little to remind readers of the first one. Popular wisdom says this is too long between books in a series. I sort of agree, but, dammit, I want to write the other books! So I will. I also have at least three other books I’d like write for the series, besides the others in the trilogy.

Before I can write any of the science fiction books, however, I have to write the next book in my Brothers In Arms Regency series. That book will be Very’s story. She’s a character I’ve had in almost all the books since the first, and readers (and my editor) have been asking for her book for years. I’ve promised. I did that stupid writer thing and promised readers it was coming early next year. So I’ve got to light a fire under it and get it done. Mind you, I’ve had her story plotted for years, so it’s not figuring out the story that will take time, just the actual writing process. I wish we could get brain implants so we could just think the story and it would appear on our computers.

Wouldn’t that be awesome?! I could write twenty books a year if I could do that. A hundred books. They may all suck, but by golly I’d get them written.

And in the meantime my brain forced me to write a sweet little contemporary m/m romance that it would not stop thinking about, to the exclusion of all else. And now my brain is completely occupied with my newest project, a mainstream m/f science fiction that I’m co-writing with my cp.

Stop the merry-go-round! I want to get off! Okay, not really. I’m glad the creative juices are still overflowing. As my kids get older, believe it or not, they actually require more time from me. I thought when I didn’t have to change diapers, wipe bottoms, spoon-feed, and try to translate baby babble into English I’d have lots of time to write. But now I’m Chauffeur Mom. School, swimming, Little League, boy scouts, playdates and birthday parties. My kids are too popular and well-rounded. I need to get them addicted to video games and bad t.v. so I can stay at home and write.

Just a quick post today. I’m running around again. I’ve got to get birthday party invitations out for two of my kids today. And I’m trying to get some work done a collaboration I’ve been trying to get off the ground. While I admit the whole thing was my idea, I must also admit that I’ve been the partner who has let the ball drop. Yikes. So I’ve got to catch up, and then we can move forward.

I’ve never written with a partner before. It’s an interesting experience. We’re doing it a bit slow and awkwardly, but I’m convinced we’ll hit our stride soon. We plotted the project on Scrivener, but discovered that we can’t share projects that way. Anyone else run into this? We even got a very polite response from Scrivener saying basically sorry, but we haven’t worked out that glitch yet. LOL So we’re writing in Word and just trading files back and forth. Today I’m going in and deleting old files so I always have just the most recent on my computer, to avoid mistakes.

I was surprised by how easily we were able to divide the book up into who does what. Well, not that surprised I guess. I asked this person to work on this book with me because I knew our individual strengths and weaknesses would compliment each other. And when we sat down and plotted and said I want this, you do that, it coincided perfectly. I love it when a plan comes together.

On another topic, Kathy’s post on rejections was quite timely for me. I just made up  my mind not to do a revise and resubmit. This particular agent wanted me to do it to turn my book into one she was more comfortable selling. She just didn’t have the experience or knowledge of the original genre, she thought, to do it justice. But she really liked my writing, and we hit it off when we spoke on the phone. But after a lot of thought I’ve decided not to do it. Because what she wants me to do with it isn’t what it is, or what I write. That was a tough decision. But I feel in my gut it was the right one. She did, however, have a lot of great suggestions about the book that I’m going to use in a revision, just not the one she wanted. LOL Writers. What can I say?

I’m back from Hawaii, land of the delicious pineapple. They serve it at every meal. And not those little soggy, cubed pieces. No ma’am. Big, honking, sweet, juicy slices of it. I miss the pineapple. And I’ll tell you now, no pictures yet. I haven’t had time to download them or organize them or anything. I’m going to put a Hawaii vacation album up on my website. I’ll let you know when I get it up. He he. Sorry, made me laugh.

So here is my vacation word association:
You Say: I Say

Hawaii: Windy
Maui: Fish
Hilo: Volcano
Kona: Coffee
Kauai: Cliffs
Honolulu: Sucks

Seriously, sorry Honolulu, but you do. It’s a big city. And not a nice one. Trash everywhere. Not what you expect when you first get off the plane in Hawaii. Also, very rude people. And half the population is homeless. It’s just not a nice place. So skip this town if at all possible when going to Hawaii. Oh, and Waikiki Beach? So crowded surfers were running into each other in the waves. A wall of people by 8 am. Not my idea of a good beach at all. I spent 3 days in Honolulu and didn’t have one good meal or decent service in any restaurant. Rant over.