New Index - Partial

FALCON HEAVY LAUNCH - 

Wednesday, April 10, c. 6:35 p.m. EDT

 Great excitement in our area this week. Only one previous Falcon Heavy launch - a test flight carrying Elon Musk's Tesla! This, the first launch with a payload, a Saudi communications satellite. In case you missed the significance, this is the rocket that is expected to put U. S. astronauts back into space, and excitement was high. (Though briefly dimmed by a last-minute postponement on Tuesday, leaving huge crowds of disappointed people to return the next night.)

I am content to watch the launches on TV before running outside to see the rockets soar above my neighbor's roof (at a distance of 35-40 miles). Conditions were perfect Wednesday night, both fiery rocket and vapor trail clearly visible for several minutes. Of the photos below, only the first Launch photo is "live" (on TV), as after that I was outside looking at the real thing. The other three photos are from the eleven o'clock news. 

And then the most incredible part of all . . . Although the fascination with rockets never wanes, we've become accustomed to successful launches, but returning the boosters to earth - particularly on land instead of at sea - is still mind-boggling. The cheers and applause were louder for the booster landings than for the launch itself. Pardon the split screen, but that's the way our local channel was showing the launch. Upper left - the two side boosters making perfect simultaneous landings dead center on their landing pads. (The center booster landed successfully on a barge at sea.)

Looks like we're finally on our way back to manned flight - later this year, we're told.

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MOSAIC MOMENTS - Partial Index (2011-2019)

As previously mentioned, I am plowing my way through organizing all my Writing and Editing blog posts since January 2011 into an ebook. Believe me, it ain’t easy! Today’s blog will be an Index of what I have accomplished so far, although the order of the articles may change in the final edition. Meanwhile, I hope this Updated Index (to be augmented over the coming weeks) will be helpful.

Grace note: The posts at the dates listed here are all “originals.” Any additions, deletions or revisions to the originals will not be available until the compilation of posts is published. The book will have three sections:  Writing, Editing & Miscellaneous. Here is the outline of the Writing section of the book.

WRITING - Index

1.  General
2.  Vital Puzzle Pieces
3.  No-No’s
4.  Writing a Series
5.  World Building
6.  Women’s Fiction
7.  Nuts & Bolts (mechanics)
8.  Writer’s Dictionary
9.  Rules & Rule-Breaking

Contents by Section

General
Writing Workshop - 9 articles - 12/6/14 - 6/28/15
Know Your Genre - 1/23/16
Birth of a Book - 2 articles - 12/1/18  & 1/26/19
Advice for Newbie Authors - 2 articles - 10/27/18 & 11/10/18

Vital Puzzle Pieces
Character Development - 9 articles - 10/15/12, 10/29/12, 11/5/12, 11/7/15,    12/5/15, 1/30/16, 2/6/16, 8/20/16, 8/27/16
Creating a Hero - 7/21/18
Creating a Heroine - 7/28/18
Creating Secondary Characters - 2 articles - 9/8/18 & 9/22/18
Point of View - 9 articles - 10/13/18, 12/9/17, 5/31/14, 6/8/14, 2/2016, 8/4/18, 8/25/18/9/1/18
Show vs. Tell - 3 articles - 7/21/13, 7/28/13, 2/2/19
Writing “Out of the Mist” - 4 articles - 7/9/16, 7/16/16, 8/19/17, 11/24/18
Transforming Truth Into Fiction - 9/4/16
The Importance of Names - 2 articles - 3/18/17 & 4/30/17
Examples of “Setting” - 3/7/15
The Difference a Word Makes - 10/15/16
The Sound of Silence - 7/30/16

No-No’s
How to Write a Bad Book - 3/12/17
How to Write a Mediocre Book - 8/26/17
Running Off at the Keyboard - 2/13/16
Signs of Amateur Writing - 10/1/16
How Not to Write a Book - 3 articles - 10/10/12, 4/4/15, 2/2/19
Rant - 6/23/18
Writing Mistakes - 3/4/11
Misused Words - 2 articles - 10/4/14 & 10/25/14

Writing a Series - 6 articles - 1/21/17 - 2/18/17

World Building - 4 articles - 12/18/13 - 2/1/14

Women’s Fiction - 3 articles - 6/15/17 - 11/4/17

Grace note: The index to Nuts & Bolts, Writer’s Dictionary, Rules & Rule-Breaking will be posted at a later date. Even later: the Editing & Miscellaneous sections.

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Blair's Regency Warrior Series (in order)

The Sometime Bride

Tarleton's Wife

O'Rourke's Heiress

Rogue's Destiny

The Lady Takes a Risk

(Book 6 coming soon*) 

*Tentative titles: The Defiant Countess, The Abominable Major, Lord Halliwell's Dilemma (Comments on the possible titles are encouraged!)

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For a link to Blair Bancroft's web site, click here.

For Blair's Facebook Author Page, with background info on
the writing of Ghosts, click here. 

 

Thanks for stopping by,

Grace