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Having Encouragement

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In writing, as in life, gaining encouragement is an important thing to help a person keep going. Of course, we must encourage ourselves too, because the internal messages we tell ourselves can be crippling, and easily kill off an idea, no matter how good it is.

So I say thank you, to the people who have let me know they’re following along with the progress in my Cosy Murder Mystery novel, the first in the proposed “At Talloola” series with amateur sleuth Meredith Webster. Having you with me, as I work my way through this first book is certainly greatly helping me!

Books take time, particularly when a writer is used to writing poems, and is accustomed to being able to get a poem written, edited, and done within a day, when it goes well. A novel, no matter how good it’s going, is going to take at least a month.

Anyway, thanks, and I can promise you, a novel will happen. By the end of 2021, Winds of Death At Talloola, will be written, and if not published, at least available to be read in pre-published form.

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Which Characters Make Their Bed?

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I was on another person’s blog earlier today – https://murdochmouse.wordpress.com/ , leaving a comment, and that got me thinking about whether the main character in the novel I’m (supposed to be) writing makes her bed every morning.

And then, what about all of the other characters there, which of them would make the bed every day, I wonder? Could this become a thing to think on for all of my characters? I certainly have ideas about which would make their bed every single morning, no matter what.

Is making the bed a generational thing, a ‘class’ think, a town versus country thing? Or is it a trait of being tidy versus being messy, OCD even, versus just don’t care? These feel like ways to learn more about the characters in my series of Cosy Murder Mysteries, the “At Talloola” series, with amateur sleuth Meredith Webster.

So do you make the bed every morning? We don’t make the bed every morning, even though, yes, it does look a lot neater if it is done. It just doesn’t seem that important. And given the news about those dust mites that will die off if they get exposed to the light, and lose access to moisture in the bedding, if you leave the bed unmade, I guess I’ll likely go on leaving the bed unmade.

Having written that though, I’m now thinking about all of the creatures that will die earlier than they otherwise would have. If I truly cared about all of Natures creatures, surely I’d make the bed, so those dust mites could live long enough to pass on their genes, as all creatures want to do …

Hmm, I feel that is a discussion for another blog, on another day. But this is where I read about the dust mite. making (or not making) the bed: https://coach.nine.com.au/health-issues/making-the-bed/0d58606f-3204-4255-91cb-af313c9d2113

Do you make the bed every day? Should I even care about dust mites? Is making or not making the bed a moral issue? Does it even matter?

I’d love other people’s ideas about these important things.