Easy, fun question for today, TKZers.
If you could be anywhere in the world today except where you are, where would you be?
And, if you’re writing (wherever you are), what are you writing?
Me? Alaska. Never been there, but maybe some day, eh?
What am I writing?
I’ll let you know when I get there.
🙂
***
And for more fun . . .
Meet Kimber . . . our new owner! 🙂
Well I have to break the rules. I’d be right here in AZ where I love to be. 😎 And I’d be writing any one of the 70 or so historical fiction ideas (plus a few non-fic projects) that have been on my ideas list for a thousand years.
Mornin’ Brenda!
I mentioned Alaska in my post, but again, if someone would just install a transporter in my home, maybe I’d actually go. 🙂
70? I’m in awe.
Have a great weekend…
I’d like to visit Ojai again. I lived in that general area for 15 years, 5 of them in a little (12′ x 15′ guesthouse). I wrote a dozen or so works for the stage and a coming-of-age novel. My current projects are:
Finishing my Western/Romance/Mystery
Finishing a history of multiple personalities.
Brainstorming a new screenplay concept.
Good morning, J.
I’ve been to Ojai, just a drive-through, though–beautiful area. Sounds like a great place to hide out and write.
And it also sounds like you have a lot on your writing plate just now. That’s a great spot to be in for sure.
Carry on!
Wailea Beach, Maui, with young guys climbing palm trees and hacking down coconuts with machetes. Not writing yet but daydreaming new plots while walking on the sand.
Give that beautiful Kimber a cookie and a tummy rub from me! Congratulations, Deb!
Hi Debbie!
The only place I’ve ever been in Hawaii is Kauai-beautiful place. Lots of chickens roaming around. 🙂 Didn’t see any young guys with machetes climbing palm trees, but maybe next time, huh?
Kimber. We’re surprised at how quickly she has adapted to our schedule. She is so full of energy she wears us out. But she stays in her crate all night without a peep, and when we relax in the afternoons, she takes her cue from us and rests also.
Next order of business for her is leash training. We’ve signed us up for that at a local dog training place.
I’ll be sure to let her know you said “Hi”. 🙂
I want to visit the Greek Isles, or ride the Orient Express, or see more of Australia, but with things the way they are “out there”, I’m staying closer to home.
I’m working on my 9th Mapleton Mystery novel. It’s fighting me like no other book I’ve written.
Good morning, Terry…
The Greek Isles sounds wonderful. But I’m with ya on staying closer to home–I don’t even like to go downtown anymore.
I think only authors would understand It’s fighting me like no other book I’ve written, right? Maybe it’s time for you to get out your Patriot missiles. 🙂
Have a great day and thanks for stopping by this morning.
Cambria, CA, well out of LA, finishing my next Mike Romeo to the sound of the waves.
Hi, Jim!
You’re the second so far who’s on a beach somewhere. Definitely better than the inland heat. I remember when I lived out there in Riverside CA for a couple of years. We’d moved there thinking it’d be our forever home, but it wasn’t long before the heat decided us to skedaddle back to my roots in WA state.
Looking forward to your next Romeo, Sir…
“…to the sound of the waves.” Good choice, Moonstone Beach can be icy in July. One freaky day eons ago wife and I were there in 100 deg off-shore heat, burn-your-toes beach, cold Pacific. Did not swim.
Agreed, Dan. And good morning!
The sound of waves beats the sound of traffic any day and twice on Sundays.
Thanks for chiming in, and have a great weekend.
I’d have a cottage on my favorite beach in Costa Rica (I spent 3 semesters there as an exchange student in college). It’d be during the off season so the hordes of tourists would be somewhere else. I’d be writing my current women’s fiction project with the working title Down By the Water and my next romantic suspense novel that will follow Wanted, currently being shopped by my agent.
Good morning, Kelly. A cottage on any beach would be welcome in the PNW heat right now. Although it’s not as bad as, say Mississippi, where my daughter lives, we do get tired of it if it continues for several days in a row.
I’ve never seen Costa Rica, so maybe . . . wait! I hate to travel, so I guess I’ll wait until beaming becomes a thing.
Have a great day!
Jerusalem. Is it dangerous? Yes. But my cousin who lives in rocket range of Gaza worries about my children on US college campuses while her grandchildren fix tanks. It is Friday, Shabbas. I could go to the Western Wall and pray where Jews have prayed for more than 3500 years.
Good morning, Alan.
I had a feeling you’d be in Israel, danger or not.
But my cousin who lives in rocket range of Gaza worries about my children on US college campuses while her grandchildren fix tanks. What a world… 🙁
If I ever got to Jerusalem, that Wall would be my first stop.
Have a good day, my friend.
I was in Israel in 1979. Our bus stopped at the Wall between the airport and the hotel.
I was also on the Temple Mount. The Dome of the Rock is too beautiful for words. Maybe one day I can visit there again as well.
Hope you can do that…👍
At Rainforest Village beside Lake Quinault in the Olympic Rainforest, writing my next novel.
Sounds dreamy, Dale!
I experienced the OR when I was a child, and I loved it. My parents took the four of us on a trip–very rare occurrence in those days–and we had a great time.
Have a great weekend!
I’m happy where I am, but maybe it would be nice to be somewhere a bit cooler. I’ll pick Fort William, Scotland. We stayed there once, and it was peaceful. I could get a lot of writing done.
Good morning, Kay!
I looked up some pictures of Fort William–it looks gorgeous. I think I might be distracted, though, by the beautiful landscapes and bus and train tours available. But once that is out of my system, a room with a view and notebooks and a laptop would suit me just fine. And, of course, I’d have to be beamed over there.
Sigh. 🙂
Have a great weekend!
Cruising silently down the Zambezi on the Zambezi Queen, G & T in hand, as I look for the real wild things.
That sounds divine! I assume you’ve already been there…?
And sorry, I’m not sure what a G & T is–a camera?
Thanks for stopping by, and have a great day. 🙂
I, too, would be in Israel. I was there in 2018 and loved it…just couldn’t stay as long as I wished. I’m working on a new book set at an elephant sanctuary near me in Tennessee.
Hi Patricia!
If I ever go overseas again, I think Israel woul have to be on my itinerary.
An elephant sanctuary in Tennessee…I never woulda guessed! A great setting-all kinds of ideas must be brimming. 😉
Like you I’ve never been to Alaska and want to, but first on my bucket list is Australia, so that’s my choice. Continuing work on book two of my Jake Sledge mystery series.
Australia! There’s another cool place to go. Or New Zealand…I think some of LOTR was filmed there & it looks beautiful.
As JSB always says…Carpe Typem!