9.4.16 - Sunday Smatterings

"It's not who you think you are that holds you back,
it's who you think you're not."
~Anonymous

I open today with a quote that feels very apropos, considering. I finished my 18th novel this week. TEAR ME APART is my second standalone novel. I started it entirely by accident, sitting in a Parisian café, and went back to Paris to write parts of it. All the while I was writing it, a voice in the back of my head kept telling me I couldn't do it. I second-guessed character decisions, plot devices, threads. It wasn't until I went back and reread some of my heroes that I remembered the golden rule, and I was able to truly settle in:

"There are no rules except those you create, page by page."
~Stuart Woods

I was holding myself back because I'd convinced myself I wasn't a standalone writer. Consider that particular block crushed. : )

Now, on to the links!

The Guardian has this gem of a headline: Antlers Hunter S Thompson stole from Hemingway's home returned to family. It's about time.

Speaking of Hemingway, I bought this book this week. He wrote large parts of it in Venice, at a small table in the corner of Harry's Bar. When I did my Hemingway footsteps trip last year, I spent a lot of time at Harry's.

Ever wonder what a chef reads? Wonder no more!

David Berry has been cast as 'Lord John Grey' in OUTLANDER!!!  To which I reply... A: AWESOME! B: What a polite character description of LJG! I can't wait to meet him on screen.

Lifehacker is doing a great series called "Will it Sous Vide?"

Once again, Facebook shows its algorithms are invasive and frightening.

But to cheer you up from that, I give you, Quilted Northern: Rustic Weave, which made us giggle all week long.

Closer to home:

It's been a relatively quiet week. Randy and I celebrated our 21st wedding anniversary, we're in a hurricane as I write this. It happened on our first honeymoon, our 11th, and now out 21st. It's an every decade thing for us. 

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Blessed week ahead to you, chickens. May your lives be hurricane free.

XO,
JT