The lovely and talented Kate Hart made up her own fun little blog meme last night, and since I don’t really have much else to say today, I am playing along! What is Two For Tuesday? From Kate’s blog:
“Two For Tuesday” is a blog meme that I just made up last night when I was trying to fall asleep.
What is it? Post two of anything: book reviews, pictures, quotes, poems, songs, videos, rants, shout outs, whatever floats your boat. Just connect them somehow. That’s it.
Today, I have two pictures that inspire me. The first has to do with my writing, the second definitely doesn’t.
You might remember that I recently started rewriting Incubus completely from scratch. It is proving harder to write than anything else I have ever tackled (including earlier drafts of the same book). I have added some elements that make it a much deeper, more emotional novel than it was before. When I find myself struggling with the writing (which is near constantly these days), I just think about the bird necklace, and it helps me push on.
In Incubus, both Kyle and Jayne have a necklace much like this one. The necklaces hold a special place in each girl’s heart, and both girls cling to the necklaces as a sort of symbol for hope. I won’t go into detail as to why, but now you know why the necklace is motivating to me. It is woven into the story and helps me remember the importance of the story I am trying to tell.
After I worked the necklace element into the story, I realized that–holy cow!–I have a very similar necklace of my own. I had forgotten all about it (though I imagine deep down I remembered, or I wouldn’t have described such a similar one in the book). So now, when I am feeling particularly stuck in writing Incubus, I put on my own bird necklace and make myself get back to work.
Okay, moving on…
My second bit of inspiration is this:
I was just asked (um…maybe 4 hours ago) if I would make a princess castle cake for a friend’s daughter’s 6th birthday. Of course!
Now, I will be honest: my cake won’t be this nice (um…this cake comes from a bakery with a minimum price of $250–we just aren’t $250 cake kind of people). My cake will probably have two round layers and turrets made out of ice cream cones. Much simpler.
But this one sure is nice to look at!
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Victoria has that necklace! And Mike (Tasha’s boyfriend) has that bird tattooed on his leg.
That is awesome! This isn’t exactly what I pictured when I wrote the necklace in the book, but it is pretty darn close.
I just had a lady come in to Michael’s last week looking for some castle cake stuff!
And my friend Augie made his wife Jen a rice krispy treat castle cake a few years ago. He said he even made a moving draw bridge.
Hehe! Moving draw bridge? That is awesome. I have thought about making a rice krispy castle in the past (I saw the idea in one of my cake books). Maybe I still will someday, ’cause it looks super fun (and who doesn’t love rice krispy treats…mmmm…I think I need to make some tonight).
I LOVE that cake. My mom made me a similar one when I was little! Thanks for playing along– I thought it would be fun for those of us that don’t do teasers.
Thanks for giving me an idea to write! This was fun. I do teasers sometimes, but I think I need to do this more often…it is just so fun.