Hello Loves -

Lazy Sunday here at the Cat Ranch.  That's what I've decided to name our little farm, since we have so many felines.  Husband has other ideas.

Today is a lazy Sunday, I've got a nice Guinness Beef Stew bubbling away on the hob and just finished the outline for my next book, which has the working title Crutch .  This is a continuation of His Baby and tells Yuri's story after the shooting which left him disabled.

My outlines are fairly rough, because I like the story to tell me where it should go.  Still, I do find them helpful for pacing purposes.  I don't plot so much as I create a what if situation and take things from there.  I find plotting tends to give a contrived element to a story; you're essentially shoehorning characters into the plot, rather than letting it develop organically.  As Stephen King said (paraphrasing) our lives are largely plotless, and everything is a reaction to a situation.

My house desperately needs a good cleaning, but I think I'll forgo that in favor of messing around with this website, which really needs some work.  I've done a fair bit of GUI work in my career, but that was for fellow engineers, and our brains simply don't work the same as normal people.  What we consider an attractive interface is wildly different than what appeals to normal individuals.

So, I'm off to study a few author websites for inspiration and see what I can do with this one.  If you've read this far, please consider joining my mailing list which may well be renamed newsletter in the near future.  I'd love to connect with you!

Love and Kisses,

Taryn