Sunday Salon for 17 September
Happy Sunday! Sunday Salon is hosted by Deb at ReaderBuzz. Check out her post and the links to see what other bloggers have been up to in the last week.
How’s the weather?
We’re enjoying warm days and cool nights, my favorite weather! I’ve seen a few maples starting to show some fall color, but mostly we’re still green here.
What are you reading?
I’m still making my way through The Traitor Beside Her by Mary Anna Evans. The agents in Arlington Hall haven’t caught the enemy spy, yet, but it’s exciting to watch them go through the process.
I’m listening to Enchantment by Katherine May. I listened to her previous book, Wintering, in January 2021. I recommended Wintering to a friend, who liked it. When I saw her a couple of weeks ago, she recommended May’s new book, Enchantment. Both audiobooks have the same reader, which made this feel like visiting with a friend.
What are you watching?
We’re enjoying Ken Burns’ Country Music this week.
We recently got a new streaming device that had the PBS app installed. We went for a couple of years where we could watch PBS on our computers, but not on the big screen. It’s nice to have the ability to watch PBS shows together, again.
We’re enjoying learning the history. I’m especially appreciating how much black history that was crucial to the development of country music.
What are you doing?
Avoiding the biggest festival of the year in my town. I went for many years, but parades and booths and concerts are all too much for my introverted self these days. Fortunately, I’ve lived here for 34 years — I know lots of ways to avoid the crowded places, if I need to get out. Mostly, I intend to stay close to home this weekend.
What are you writing?
For British Isles Friday and Agatha Christie’s birthday this week, I featured the Christie novel that was published 100 years ago, 1923: The Murder on the Links. It was the second of the Hercule Poirot novels.
I finished “the board” for my novel. This is an idea borrowed from screenwriters. I borrowed it from Save the Cat by Blake Snyder. Each of the post-it notes represents a scene. So, this is a visual representation of my story’s outline.
The board was my last big step to complete before I started my commitment to write scenes for an hour a day each day for 90 days. I’ve already been spending that hour on course work to learn to write a novel, so I don’t have to carve out any new time for that. I’ll start on Monday!
How are you this fine Sunday?