Long Time, No See

Well, I must say, having a baby sure does make you get behind on things, like, oh, say, writing a sequel! Ha, ha.

Yes, that is right, we have another bouncing baby boy to add to our family now. I hope that is a reasonable excuse for my absence from the world of The Order Saga. But, my fans will be happy to know that I have started to resign myself to the fact that, if I am going to get any writing done at all, it has to happen during nap time. So, no more naps for me! At least not while the writing bug is fresh in my system.

So, I am happy to report that I have added another ten pages to my draft, and the Prologue and Chapter One are now complete. Yippee! I know my sister will be interested in getting a copy of the first chapter to read, but I am going to see how long it will take her to discover that it is done. (Does she actually read this blog anymore, or have I taken too long to post something?!)

With only twenty minutes left of nap time today, I have run out of writing time. But, to keep my fans going, I have posted the new player with the soundtrack for The Others at the bottom of this blog. It is a working list, so more songs might be added as I go. I also have a few songs that I dearly love for this soundtrack that are not available on Playlist.com. So, when you hear Tonight by Alex Band, Not Broken by the Goo Goo Dolls, Parachute by Ingrid Michaelson, or Your Love is a Song by Switchfoot, please think of The Others.

Enjoy!

Update

Did everyone see that?  I just updated the status of my sequel to 24 pages.  I know, 4 whole pages!  How exciting!  :)  But at least it is a start, and now that I have reviewed all my notes and am back into the swing of writing, perhaps the next four pages will come much faster.

It other news, "The Order" is currently under its second revision and will hopefully be ready soon.  Thank you Julie for taking the time to edit it for me!

So, hang in there.  More is coming!

Cookbook Done!

So, my project of working on the family cookbook is finally over, and now Scott and I are going to take a much needed vacation.  Upon my return, I hope to get back to working hard on my sequel.  I am very excited to get writing again.

Update- Cookbook

Well, I am sure some of you keep looking at my sidebar and reading, "Marsha is on page 20 of her sequel, "The Others," and wondering why that number doesn't change!

Well, that's because I haven't been working on my sequel for awhile now, and I just wanted to let everyone know why. My family puts together a family cookbook, and every so often we do updates. I am currently in charge of typing up the updates for our next version of the cookbook, and all my spare computer time gets eaten up by that.

The good news is, I hope to be done with the cookbook very soon, and I will get back to working hard on my sequel. Just hang in there! I haven't forgotten about it yet.

Already Gone by Kelly Clarkson

***Warning! Spoiler***

If you have only read the first two chapters off the website, you might want to skip this article.

As promised, here is one of the songs from my novel playlist (see player at the bottom of the screen) and why this song was important to me during the writing process. (It's the first song on the play list.)

Some of the songs were helpful for tone or mood, but this song was especially about the lyrics. If you listen to the words, picture it coming from Rachel towards Peter at the end of the story. I even use the quote, "I'm already gone" (or something similar) several times in the novel.

I hope you enjoy the insight!

Remember all the things we wanted 
Now all our memories, they're haunted 
We were always meant to say goodbye 
Even with our fists held high 
It never would have worked out right, yeah 
We were never meant for do or die...  

I didn't want us to burn out 
I didn't come here to hurt you now I can't stop...  

I want you to know 
It doesn't matter where we take this road 
Someone's gotta go 
And I want you to know 
You couldn't have loved me better 
But I want you to move on 
So I'm already gone  

Looking at you makes it harder 
But I know that you'll find another 
That doesn't always make you wanna cry 
It started with the perfect kiss then 
We could feel the poison set in 
"Perfect" couldn't keep this love alive 

You know that I love you so 
I love you enough to let you go  

I want you to know 
It doesn't matter where we take this road 
Someone's gotta go 
And I want you to know 
You couldn't have loved me better 
But I want you to move on 
So I'm already gone  

I'm already gone, already gone 
You can't make it feel right 
When you know that it's wrong 
I'm already gone, already gone 
There's no moving on 
So I'm already gone  

Ahhhh already gone, already gone, already gone 
Ahhhh already gone, already gone, already gone   

Remember all the things we wanted 
Now all our memories, they're haunted 
We were always meant to say goodbye...  

I want you to know 
It doesn't matter where we take this road 
Someone's gotta go 
And I want you to know 
You couldn't have loved me better 
But I want you to move on 
So I'm already gone  

I'm already gone, already gone 
You can't make it feel right 
When you know that it's wrong 
I'm already gone, already gone 
There's no moving on, 
So I'm already gone

Amy

Who do you think Amy Wilkins looks like?

I found this pictures of an actress named Amanda Bynes, and I think she looks pretty close to what I see in my mind, just make the hair curly. She has that pleasant face with friendly round cheeks that I think Amy should have. Amanda Bynes was in the movie Syndey White (a tongue-in-cheek remake of Snow White). In the movie, her face was the perfect "Amy" but I had a hard time finding many pictures of her that looked much like she did in the movie.