A Writer's Life

 LADY ON THE BEACH....PAGE 10 MAGGIE WAS RE-THINKING ABOUT THIS BEING A GOOD IDEA.  ONCE THEY MADE THEIR WAY A BIT INLAND, THE OCEAN BREEZE WAS GONE AND THE AIR WAS HOTTER SALLY LED THE WAY, PULLING THE EMPTY RED WAGON, WITH O.C.(ORANGE CAT)SITTING IN THE WAGON.  MICHAEL WAS BY HER SIDE,  HE TOOK HER HAND AND DIDN'T PULL BACK IT WAS FAMILIAR, LIKE A LONG LOST FRIEND, RIGHT NOW SHE NEEDS A FRIEND THOUGH THESE TWO WERE NOT WHAT SHE HAD IT MIND, BUT SHE DIDN'T MIND SHE WASN'T ALONE.  MAGGIE CROSSED THE STREET, JAY WALKING WHEN SALLY LET OUT A SCREAM "OH NO!" OUT OF NOWHERE, A YOUNG MAN IN UNIFORM MET HER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET "MAM'AM, YOU HAVE BROKEN THE LAW."  THE YOUNG MAN, WITH A NAME BADGE, TOBY, "I NEED SOME I.D." "I HAVE NO I.D. ON ME."  MAGGIE SAID "COME WITH ME."  THE OFFICER SAID MAGGIE LOOKED BACK AT MICHAEL, WHO WAS LAUGHING, AND SALLY LOOKED SCARED, AS IF MAGGIE WAS GOING TO PRISON. "WRITE ME A TI...

 LADY ON THE BEACH.......PAGE 9 MAGGIE LOOKED AT SALLY, SHE LOOKED TOTALLY DIFFERENT.  SHE SHOWERED CLEAN CLOTHES AND HER HAIR WAS NO NO LONGER LOOKING LIKE A RAT'S NEST. "MORNING SALLY, YOU LOOK NICE THIS MORNING."  MAGGIE SAID "THANK YOU."  SALLY SAID AS SHE PLACED A PLATE OF EGGS AND BACON IN FRONT OF MAGGIE AND MICHAEL. "THE TOWN IS BUZZING ABOUT YOU AND MICHAEL.  A FAMOUS WRITER AND PROFFESIONAL SURFER.  THE NEXT IT COUPLE.  I AM AT YOUR SERVICE.  ANYTHING YOU WANT OR NEED,  JUST ASK.  SALLY SAT DOWN AND WATCHED THEM EAT. MAGGIE ATE, BUT WASN'T SURE ABOUT SALLY.  "DID YOU BRING IN MY TYPEWRITER AND  TOTE BAG?" MAGGIE ASKED. "I PUT IT IN THE STUDY."  "THANK YOU" MAGGIE, NOT COMFORTABLE PEOPLE TOUCHING HER THINGS "YUO HOO" "THAT WILL BE LOIS.  SHE IS THE REALTOR YOU TALKED TO."  MICHAEL SAID.  "A BIT TO EARLY  TO DEAL WITH HER.  COME ON IN!" LOIS WALKED IN.  "I AM SO SORRY I WAS NOT HER...

 LADY ON THE BEACH.....PAGE 8 MAGGIE STEPPED OUT OF THE BATHROOM, NOTICING AN ORANGE CAT ON THE BED AND MICHAEL LEANING AGAINST THE DRESSER.  "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" MICHAEL SMILED, "I BROUGHT YOUR SUITCASE UP.  YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU HAVE DONE?" "I NEED SOME TIME ALONE.  PLEASE LEAVE."  MAGGIE SAID, OPENING THE SUITCASE, GRABBING A YELLOW SUNDRESS AND WALKED BACK INTO THE BATHROOM TO CHANGE MICHAEL DIDN'T LEAVE, HE WAITED. MAGGIE WALKING OUT OF THE BATHROOM, HER WET HAIR FALLING PAST HER SHOULDERS "WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE?"  MAGGIE ASKED. I LIVE HERE AND THIS IS MY ROOM."  MICHAEL SAID SMILING "THOUGHT SALLY LIVED HERE?"  MAGGIE SAID "SHE COMES AND GOES.  I WA HIRED TO FIX THINGS UP ROUND FOR YOU, BUT YOU ARE EARLY. "  MICHAEL SAID "I NEED TO GO TO TOWN AND GET A FEW THINGS."  MAGGIE SAID " THINK YOU SHOULD CHECK YOUR PHONE."  MICHAEL SAID MAGGIE GRABBED HER PHONE. "I HAVE GONE VIRAL....

 LADY ON THE BEACH.......PAGE 7 LUCY AWAKENS, SEEING PEOPLE LOOKING DOWN AT HER "SHE'S ALIVE, SHE'S ALIVE" SOMEONE YELLED, LUCY LOOKED AROUND, "THINK I WISHED I WAS DEAD" A HAND REACHED OUT TO HER, TO HELP HER UP. SHE DIDN'T TAKE IT.  "WHAT'S GOING ON?  WHY ARE YOU ALL HERE?" MAGGIE WAS CONFUSED.  SHE LOOKED DOWN SEEING SHE IS STILL IN HER WEDDING DRESS.  NOW SHE REMEMBERS. "BACK OFF!  I AM FINE, AS HER HEAD POUNDED AND FELT LIKE THROWING UP "OH MY GOSH!  IT'S MAGGIE MARTIN WHO GOT LEFT AT THE ALTAR"  SOMEONE YELLED A MAN PUSHED THROUGH THE CROWD. HE DIDN'T SPEAK. HE BENT DOWN, PICKING HER  UP WITHOUT ASKING.  HE HEADED TOWARD THE BEACH HOUSE, WITH SALLY FOLOWING THE TWO OF THEM "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"  MAGGIE ASKED. "SAVING YOU FROM THE MEDIA, THOUGH YOU DON'T DESERVE IT." HE DROPPED HER ON THE LIVING ROOM RUG WHICH WAS OUT DATED AND STAINED MAGGIE HIT THE HARD FLOOR, LOOKING UP AT THE MAN.  ...

 LADY ON THE BEACH.......PAGE 6   LADY ON THE BEACH RETURNS LADY ON THE BEACH WAS FOUND IN FRONT OF OLE PETERSON'S BEACH HOUSE THE WOMAN WHO IS KNOWN AS ONLY SALLY CALLED IT IN WOMAN ON THE BEACH WAS WEARING A BRIDAL GOWN AND VEIL IF LEGEND IS CORRECT SOMEONE IS GOING TO HAVE A BAD, VERY BAD WINTER ALSO MICHAEL OF DOLPHIN COVE ONCE WAS ENGAGED GO THE LADY ON THE BEACH GOING TO BE AN AWESOME SUMMER FOR THE GOSSIP COMMUNITY ARTICLE TAKEN FROM  THE DOLPHIN REPORTER  

 LADY ON THE BEACH.....PAGE 5 MICHAEL STONE RAN ALONG THE BEACH, AS THE SUN ROSE. IT IS HIS FAVORITE TIME OF THE DAY ALL IS RIGHT WITH THE WORLD, NO PHONES, NO PEOPLE JUST GOD GIVING MANKIND ANOTHER DAY.  MICHEAL JOGGED ALONG THE WATER. THE ONLY PERSON THAT COULD RUIN THIS MOMENT, WAS SALLY.  SHE IS ALWAYS LURKING SOMEWHERE SPYING ON EVERYONE.  MOST OF THE LOCALS THINK SHE IS CRAZY,  AFTER SHE LOST HER HUSBAND AND CHILD DURING A TROPICAL STORM.  A FEW YEARS  BACK.  MICHAEL KNOWS SHE ISN'T CRAZY, SHE IS JUST LONELY, GRIEVING OF WHAT SHE  HAD AND WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.  MICHAEL SAW SALLY UP AHEAD, AS IF WAITING  FOR HIM MICHAEL STOPPED, STANDING IN FRONT OF SALLY SALLY HELD OUT A CUP OF COFFE.  MICHAEL ACCEPTED IT. "WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU TODAY?"  MICHAEL ASKED "SHE'S BACK.  THE LADY ON THE BEACH.  I SAW HER LAST NIGHT.  SOMETHING TERRIBLE GOING TO HAPPEN....JUST LIKE WHAT HAPPENED TO MY FAMILY...I SAW HER THAT...

 LADY ON THE BEACH......PAGE 4 MAGGIE DROVE THE CLASSIC, RESTORED 74 NOVA STILL WEARING HER CUSTOM MADE WEDDING DRESSAND VAIL. IT'S BEEN TWO DAYS SINCE SHE WAS LEFT AT THE ALTAR MAGGIE WAS NEVER SO EMBARRESSED, NOT THAT SHE WAS LEFT AT THE ALTAR, BUT BECAUSE SHE IS A BESTSELLING ROMANCE AUTHOR, AND SHE COULDN'T GET HER HAPPILY EVER AFTER...IS THAT TO MUCH TO ASK?    MAGGIE FLED THE CITY, ALREADY PACKED FOR HONEYMOON, SHE GRABBED HER SUIT CASE IN THE NOVA AND STARTED DRIVING HER AGENT FOUND A PLACE TO LAY LOW AND FINISH HER BOOK MAGGIE LEFT HER PHONE AND LAPTOP BEHING, GRABBING AN 1912 MANUAL TYPEWRITER.  SHE DIDN'T WANT ANYONE TO KNOW WHERE SHE WAS AND DIDN'T WANT TO TALK TO ANYONE SHE DROVE BY A SIGN THAT WELCOMED HER TO DOLPHIN COVE. IT IS STARTING TO GET DARK, BUT HAD NO PROBLEM FINDING THE BEACH HOUSE IT WAS PERFECT.  NO OTHER HOUSES AROUND, NO NOISEY NEIGHBORS MAGGIE PARKED THE NOVA IN FRONT OF THE TWO STORY BEACH HOUSE INHALING THE SEA AIR, FEELING TH...

 LADY ON THE BEACH......PAGE 3 20 YEARS AGO A WEDDING AT THE PETERSON BEACH HOUSE ALL WAS WELL UNTIL THE PREACHER ASKED.... "IS THERE ANYONE WHO OBJECTS TO THIS MARRIAGE" A CLAP OF THUNDER SHOOK THE SANDY BEACH, AS DARK CLOUDS ROLLED IN THE WIND PICKED UP THE GUESTS STARTED TO SCATTER THE GROOM SAID "CONTINUE" AND THE PREACHER CONTINUED AS WAVES CRASHED ON THE BEACH CLOSER AND CLOSER. "YOU MAY KISS THE BRIDE"  THE PREACHER SAID THE BRIDE AND GROOM KISSED AS A WAVE CRASHED ON TOP OF THEM, TAKING THEM OUT TO SEA LIGHTING STRUCK THE GAZBO CATCHING THE GAZBO ON FIRE LIGHTENING STRUCK WITHIN THE DARK CLOUDS GUESTS SCATTERED THE BRIDE AND GROOM WAS NEVER SEEN AGAIN COME MORNING, THE WHITE LACE WEDDING VEIL WASHED UP ON THE BEACH THE PEOPLE RELATED TO THE BRIDE AND GROOM, ALL DIED SHORTLY AFTER THE WEDDING, MYSTERIOUS ACCIDENTS.... AND EVERY YEAR ON THE WEDDING DATE THE BRIDE IS SEEN ON THE BEACH LOOKING FOR SOMEONE OR SOMETHING THEN WITHIN A WEEK SOMEONE DIES TH...

 LADY ON THE BEACH.....PAGE 2 SALLY BARGED INTO THE CAFE YELLING. "WHERE IS SHE?  WHERE IS LOIS CAPPER?" SALLY BARE FEET, HAIR LIKE A RAT NEST, DIRTY, SMELLS ABIT SALLY WALKED OVER TO LOIS LOIS SITTING IN THE BOOTH, SCOOTING OVER, CLOSER TO THE WALL "YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID!" THE WAITRESS LORI CAME OUT WITH A PLATE OF PANCAKES "SALLY, WHAT EVER HAPPENED.  WE CAN FIX IT.  PLEASE SIT DOWN AND TELL US WHAT LOIS DID NOW" SALLY LOOKED AT THE PANCAKES AND SAT DOWN "LOIS CAPPER, THE GREEDY REALTOR WILL DO ANYTHING TO SEE PROPERTY INCLUDING RENTING OLE MAN PETERSON'S BEACH HOUSE" SALLY HELD UP A WET, SANDY LACE VEIL, THROWING IT ON LOIS "WASHED UP ON THE BEACH THIS MORNING, IN FRONT OF PETERSON'S BEACH. HOUSE.  THE LADY ON THE BEACH IS BACK.  YOU ALL KNOWS WHAT THAT MEANS.  SOMETING TERRIBLE IS GOING TO HAPPEN THIS SUMMER AND IT WILL BE LOIS'S FAULT" THE DINER WENT QUIET "I AM JUST A REALTOR.  I SELL REAL ESTATE, GET OVER IT...

LADY ON THE BEACH.....PAGE 1 LOIS CAPPER WALKED INTO THE COCUNUT DINER THE BELL RANG ABOVE THE DOOR "I'VE DONE IT! I HAVE  DONE IT.....AND YOU ALL SAID IT COULDN'T BE DONE. LOIS WALKED OVER TO THE BOOTH,WHERE HER THREE BEST FRIENDS SAT EVERY MORNING, LIKE CLOCK WORK MAE CONNER, SUSAN THORTON AND TAMMY SINGER "WELL, YOU GOING TO TELL US OR WE WE GOING TO HAVE TO GUESS?"  TAMMY ASKED LOIS ST DOWN...LEANING OVER TO THE WOMEN, AS IF IT WAS A SECRET "I RENTED OUT THE OLE PETERSON BEACH HOUSE FOR THE ENTIRE SUMMER, WITH AN OPTION TO BUY.  LOIS SAID SMILING,AS IF SHE ONE THE LOTTERY "SHOW US THE MONEY, THE CONTRACT, PROOF"  FRED YELLED ACROSS THE ROOM. "NO ONE LIVED IN THAT HOUSE FOR OVER 20 YEARS, IT IS NOT LIVEABLE.  WHO IS GOING TO FIX IT UP?  "YOU?"  STEPHEN ASKED LAUGHING "I HIRED MICHAEL!"  LOIS SNAPPED BACK. "DOES MICHAEL KNOW ABOUT THIS?"  FRED ASKED. "NOT YET.  I JUST NEED TO FIND HIM.  YOU HAVE YE LITTLE F...

TODAY...MARCH 9TH....  I WROTE 10 PAGES TODAY TOTAL FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH SO FAR..... 72 PAGES SO FAR FOR THE MONTH ONE WORD AT A TIME  

PAGE COUNT TODAY I WROTE 10 PAGES TOTAL FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH... 62 PAGES I FINISHED READING A BOOK BY SAMANTHA DOWNING TITLED: I AM GETTING TO OLD FOR THIS DARK COMEDY.... GRABS YOU AT THE FIRST PAGE I READ ALL OF FREIDA MCFADDEN BOOKS ONE WORD AT A TIME  

 TODAY I WROTE 10 PAGES.... SOMES DAYS I WRITE ALOT. SOME DAYS I WRITE LESS BUT I WRITE BUT NOW I AM STUCK..... NOT SURE WHAT TO COME NEXT... NEED TO DO SOME PLOTTING.... IT ALWAY'S JUST POP IN MY HEAD... THAT WOULD BE TO EASY.... ANYWAY.... TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY  

WRITER'S UPDATE:  PAGE COUNT YESTERDAY I WROTE 15 PAGES TODAY I WROTE 20 PAGES TOTAL PAGE COUNT SO FAR....FOR MARCH: 42 PAGES AND IT IS ONLY MARCH 4TH I JUST KEPT WRITING ONE WORD AT A TIME IDEAS CAME TO ME AND I STOPPED WHEN I RAN OUT OF IDEAS ONE WORD AT A TIME    

THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY.... I WROTE 183 PAGES IN JANUARY I WROTE 286 PAGES SO FAR THIS MONTH OF MARCH I WROTE 7 PAGES I AM WRITING THIS ON MARCH 2ND SO FAR I DIDN'T WRITE TODAY, NOT YET I NEED TO START FOCUSING MORE ON MY WRITING BUT SOMETIMES DAYS IT IS EASY TO WRITE OTHER DAYS IT IS HARDER TO WRITE SO ONE WORD AT A TIME SOON ALL THOSE WORDS WILL BECOME A  BOOK, POEM OR SCREEN PLAY ONE WORD AT A TIME  

 MY FAVORITE AUTHOR IS... FREIDA MCFADDEN..... I HAVE READ MOST OF HER BOOKS DEAR DEBBIE IS HER NEWEST RELEASE VERY GOOD BOOK.....A GOOD QUICK READ....A PAGE TURNER THEN I READ... PATRICIA CORNWELL 1ST BOOK SHE WROTE POSTMORTEM NOW AN ORGINIAL SERIES ON PRIME IT IS A CRIME NOVEL....SHE HAS WRITTEN 29 BOOKS SO FAR I AM NOW READING A BOOK BY ALICE FEENEY.... MY HUSBAND'S WIFE SO EVEN THOUGH I WRITE EVERY DAY.....I ALSO READ EVERYDAY WHAT ARE YOU READING?

 I WROTE 10 PAGES TODAY I AM WRITING THE FINALE OF THE BOOK... ON PAGE 1,110.... THE BOOK....WHEN I REWRITE IT... WILL BREAK INTO 3 BOOKS ACT I, ACT 2, ACT 3(FINALE) MANY DIFFERENT VIEW POINTS NOT SURE THIS WILL MAKE AY SENSE TO ANYBODY ELSE BUT IT MAKES SENSE TO ME SO I KEEP WRITING LOTS OF IDEAS IN MY HEAD IF YOU HAVE A STORY IDEA......WRITE IT ONLY YOU CAN WRITE YOUR STORY

 YESTERDAY I WROTE 5 PAGES THIS COLD WINTER IS GETTING TO ME I AM STILL WRITING EVERYDAY....EVEN IF IT IS ONLY ONE PAGE SO WRITE EVERYDAY...EVEN IF IT IS ONLY A SENTENCE OR A PARAGRAPH WRITE SOMETHING EVEN IF IT IS ONLY ONE WORD ONE WORD AT A TIME

 WHERE DOES THE TIME GO? IT HAS BEEN ALMOST 3 MONTHS SINCE MY LAST POST JANUARY 2026....WROTE 286 PAGES FEBUARY SO FAR....WROTE 137 I HAVE BEEN WRITING EVERYDAY.... IT HAS BEEN A COLD WINTER.. WAITING FOR SPRING  STILL WORKING ON HIDING IN PLAIN  SIGHT ON PAGE 1,086 WRITE ON.....ONE WORD AT A TIME