Hope everyone is doing well in the virtual world. The MFA semester has been going swimmingly. It is hard to believe that it is almost time to start another residency! I'm already behind on my reading for it (as usual!)

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Still working away on the mystery for the April deadline—that I'm sure I'll miss by at least a week! I decided around page 100 that I needed to add a new main character (and her husband and kid) and a new setting (I don't know why it didn't occur to me sooner that I needed a church in my southern cozy mystery!)  Hopefully this will make it better and not muck it up. I might want to stop reading other cozies until I'm done!

I bought a new laptop today, and I have to say I'm not in love with Windows Vista. It made it 10 times harder to load software onto the laptop and Word 2007 looks funny. I know it will take getting use to, but when I'm on a writing deadline getting to know a new keyboard layout was enough of a challenge without having to spend 10 mins trying to figure out how to save a document where I want it. I'll give it some time, but I might end up putting XP on this system.  I've said it before and I'll say it again DAMN YOU BILL GATES!!

I got a new book in the mail, "How To Write Killer Fiction" by Carolyn Wheat. I like the 4 arc story structure for mysteries and her meta novel suggestions.  I've incorporated them into my work-in-progress (since that is what I was doing naturally!)

Well back to writing. Take care!