Racoons, Chapter 15, and Car Shopping 

Written By Betty Almond

What do racoons, Chapter 15 (new book), and looking at cars have in common? All three are frustrating.

Racoons are wreaking havoc on the watermelon field. Every day, one is being caught in a humane live trap and turned loose miles away from the growing field. I kind of know how the guy felt in the movie Ground Hog Day, just keep repeating the same day over and over. Chapter 15 let’s just say a character is trying to take over, and I am about to start slinging action verbs like stabbed, drowned, thrown. Car shopping, I am convinced it would be cheaper and less stressful to find a 70’s model land yacht and drop a new motor and transmission. 

So, what do I do in these trying times. Get a mean ole hunting hound, stop fighting what is not working in the story, drive my current car until the wheels fall off.

 

Stay cool everyone in these dog days of summer.

 

Betty Almond

B. R. Almond is the author of For the Love of D. H. Lawrence. She enjoys fashioning suspense designed around family. The intricate emotional attachments mixed with how far one will go, be it to right a wrong, stay alive, or even for love is her sweet spot. And yes, she throws in a little romance. And if she can plug in a motorcycle scene, well that is icing on the cake.

A writer, farmer, and lover of motorcycles, she is from the southern region of Arkansas living the three L’s (Live, love, and laugh). When away from the keyboard, she toils around in the garden, dodges wildlife free ranging in her yard, and always on the search for a place to dive fork deep into great Cajun food. Mostly, she can be found walking in the woods thinking on her next writing project.

https://www.bralmond.com
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