The Talking Trellis

I am on the precipice of change. I can feel it. I can feel it in my bones and it rattles my thoughts. Thoughts that, when given light and examination, reshape everything.

Is it the state of the world, or merely the inner workings of my inner minions. The minions that keep me churning and often cause my life long battle with insomnia to grab hold and squeeze me awake. Tick. Tock. The hours of the night face me, while I redo, rewrite, relive, revive aspects of my past- but mainly illusions of my future. Illusions I wish to be tangible, so I race to sleep to stock the energy to make them real. Though through uncertainty, sleep is elusive, and therefore restless and spinning I face the day. The days, the week. A week from now. If I can make it to just a week from now- I will have more answers. I am certain of this. Or is that certainty a mirage?

What I know is that attitude is at the helm. Attitude to be followed by tedious, monotonous, overwhelming, rewarding (at an undetermined time in the future) work. Work I can face, and do not ever regret, if I can focus on one aspect, one step, one inch at a time. For it is the tangents that impede my progress, all the arms and tentacles of everything that is linked to every thing that is linked to everything, everywhere.

I call upon the ripples to gently guide me to stay upon the true course. I call upon the winds of change to be kind. To me, to all of us.

Anklevine now has a Garden!!!

And it is no longer a secret…

After many attempts to kill the computer and several expletives being shared out loud- The Garden of the Atrium (which also has a new front page!) is up and ready for all to take to stroll within, around, back again. Many trinkets and all sustainable, reused, recycled and re-imagined. Even drop down menus for some of the cart buttons- yes we are that crafty.

Hope you enjoy!

In other words- literally, I have been participating in NaNoWriMo this year. It is all A’s fault as she signed me up. Truthfully, I am enjoying it more than I ever thought I would. My word count is currently in 30,000 range and I wholeheartedly applaud the people who came up with this process. I was unsure I would have enough to flush out to 50,000 words- let alone in a month- but then soemthing clicked right after the halfway point. I hit 25,000 words and suddenly I understood why it is so important to just get the words down while not  looking back. Looking back equals editing and you cannot edit if you don’t have something to work on. After the halfway mark I could see the whole thing and started to think I had too much, or rather more than 50,000 words in the scope of my novel. Now, as I write, it is all the good stuff- the stuff you want to write first but you can’t because there has to be characters and why they are there. Endings are easy, at least for me, so learning and understanding this process to build to that ending has been worth every word!

I’ll keep you posted as to how it turns out and when I finish. Though if I am absent for the next 10 days- you can blame it on NaNoWriMo!

anklevine.com has been re-focused, re-vamped and re-stocked!!!

Click on over to see the new vision.

Anklevine is the home of:

this Blog, The Talking Trellis
–Which I promise to Update more frequently. I mean, come on, the world needs to know what I am thinking! This is clearly an imperative.

a Shoppe, The Atrium
–That now offers Forever Wrap! You will really want to check that out. New Crops within in The Atrium will be added, hopefully, on a weekly basis- so keep checking in.

and a new Platform entitled, SHE Writes Letters!
–It is an answer, a solution, a sounding board, a venting place, an all around good time.

When I first approached the concept of anklevine, I brought with me all of my past cyber experience, which may have made the original design a bit too muddled for my taste. I am much more pleased with the revamping (and not just because I like using that word!) and hope the focus is more clear in the new design.

I’ll be working away this month to “re-grow” the Crops for The Atrium. I have so many exciting ideas and plans, I cannot wait to see how they all turn out. Naturally, I will keep you all posted- whether it be an official post or through my kvetching here within other posts perhaps not one hundred percent on topic.

Thank you all for sticking by me- the best is yet to come!