The Yellow Notebook

Current mood: eccentric


I had such a strange dream, though positive, I had this crazy sense I had to follow the dream. This nagging feeling was so bad that shortly after I awoke I proceeded to follow through as I’d seen in my weird dream.

First off, you have to understand, I’m nuts. Second off, you have to understand, I'm blonde, and well… that pretty much covers it. Oh yah, and with my first novel I learned to write my rough thoughts and ideas down in spiral notebooks. So now we have that out of the way, I'll tell you about my dream.

I dreamed I wrote the pirate novel I’ve had scattered on post it notes for months into this bright safety yellow spiral notebook. In the dream, I copied my novel from the notebook to the computer, sent it off to be published, and whamo, instant success.

I awoke with such an urgency to find this yellow notebook I immediately went in search of one among my old school supplies. Not a single yellow notebook, especially since yellow is not my favorite color. Later, I began looking for the post it notes regarding the book, but couldn't find them. Frantically, I began searching through the unpacked boxes left over from moving back into our home after repairs were completed following a near total loss from hurricane Ike.

Eventually, I found the post it notes bundled together in a coupon holder, and the frazzled, frenzy left me. I tried to be rationale and dismiss my dream, but it didn't work. Finally, I went to Wally World bought the bright school bus colored notebook, and suddenly the urgency lifted. One day, we'll find out if my dream really is a portent.

Happy Reading,

Carolyn Haven

Splitting My seemingly Endless Novel

Yet again reviewing seemingly endless pages for congruency, I realize my book is entirely too efling long. Miracles of all miraculous miracles about halfway down I find the perfect place to split my nearly two complete novels.

Writng, yah still happy.

Setting This Up

Fortunately, setting this up is easier than completing my first novel, which is actually getting closer and closer to completion all the time.  I'll work in pie scenarios for fractions of completion. Pie is easy. I am currently 7/8ths complete with the first novel in a series of at least seven and have begun outlines and even some scenes for the next few novels. This is exciting, and I'm loving every minute of it!!! Well, back to work.

By the way, I don't claim to be perfect and neither is spell check, so I apologize for any errors ahead of time.

Happy Reading And Writing,

Carolyn Haven