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Memorial Weekend is here. This is the weekend that most folks kick off their summer cookouts and open their pools for the season, even campgrounds kick into full swing with their campers.

This year I’m glad I’m not one of them. It is a cold Memorial Weekend here in New Hampshire. It is one of the coldest I can remember. Snow even fell last night. I saw it. It even stuck to my mom’s skylights in her bedroom. She made sure to point this out to me last night when I could believe my eyes when we saw the flakes falling from the sky in big globs. It is not like we live in Northern New Hampshire either. We are down on the Massachusetts border.

I was worried about our garden. But Mike reassured me that they would be alright even though we didn’t cover any of the plants.

We didn’t wake up to any snow on the ground, thankfully, like some people did in the western part of the state. But it was cold none the less.

The first thing I did in the morning was look outside at the garden. Everything looked like it was still alive. Thank God… My zucchini has been growing so good.

Cold weather does have its advantages though. Since I don’t like it, it made it much easier to stay inside and write.

ROW80 Update:

I have finally pushed past where the kids catch the kitchen on fire. Everyone made it out alive. I won’t tell you who saved the day. You’ll have to read the book to find out. But I am happy to say I added over 3k words to the file today. That is more than I set out to write.

When Kate posted that we should have a goal of 250 words because of the holiday I figured I could at least do that.

Well, well, well, what do you know? I got to the 250 words and kept right on going. How about that?

I think I surpassed my ninety minute writing spurt too, so now I can go back to gaming for the rest of the day while I try and plot out what will happen when the boys ask the girls to the dance.

Have a Happy Memorial Weekend and stay warm and safe everybody.

For the past couple of weeks I have not made much progress on Along Came Neil. I have been too busy cooking the plot or just plain stuck as to what my character should do next.

This always happens when I get to the middle of the story. I guess this is because I like strong tension between characters but I don’t want the story to be to repetitious. My characters have to create new ways to get back at each other. They have to be creative.

It is kind of like pulling an elephant out of your hat.

So whenever I get to this point I know that to help motivate me to keep going on I must start making my book cover.

Well I have now done so.

Here it is:

I like it because it shows two girls who are possibly fighting over who is going to be the one.

Will it be Ashley or Karla he takes to the dance? If he takes Karla to the dance, what will Maggie do about it? She promised her friend Ashley she would take care of Karla once and for all. What could she possible have up her sleeve and will she succeed?