Lesson 5, Best Yet

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Today I worked on Lesson 5 of the Master Class writing course I signed up for the other day. This lesson was the best yet. The subject of the lesson was research. They say your impression of someone else's intelligence depends a lot on how much they agree with you. Based on the, at least regarding researching for a novel, James Patterson is a genius. As he went through his list of suggestions I realized I am already doing nearly everything he recommends. I have to say that made me feel good. Two of the things Mr Patterson recommended that I am not currently doing are (1)-actually visiting some of the places I have my characters visit in my books. The reason for this is cost of travel and time available. Google Earth and the internet help fill in these gaps for me. (2)-interviewing experts on the subjects I'm writing about. To some extent I do this, but not in any official or formal way. For the new story idea I'm developing for this class, I plan to change my approach and interview both our school psychologist and guidance counselor, provided their game. I'm also getting some great feedback on the three story ideas I posted in the class forum. One classmate already wants to know more about one of my ideas. She's hoping I follow through and turn it into a book because she wants to read it already. Well, that's how I spent most of my day, working on my classwork. Now I plan to spend some time here on myLot before I devote myself to working on my other story in progress. Oh, the photo, it has nothing to do with the class. That's just Stripes, one of our front porch squatters, following me down the road yesterday when I went to take pictures at the creek. Have y'all been keeping busy today?