Why I side with Harry

 On the eve of his book’s release, my preorder is in and I can wait to dive into Harry’s words.

I am obsessed with the Harry-Meagan story. I have at times used their first names as if talking  about old friends.

Actually, my obsession began with the royals the day Diana married Charles. I was doing my Saturday volunteer duty (candy striper back in the day) at the hospital with Sister Mary Louisa. A very tiny, old, petite, scary nun and as we were bagging surgical supplies she went off on a tangent about what the heck was that old man doing marrying such a young girl. “I give it ten years. I heard he has a tart on the side”

What? Who were these people she spoke of. Plus, I wasn’t familiar with what a tart was. I went home, spoke to my Nana and she immediately got me a national enquirer (reading choice of our family then)

I have followed ever since. A real life soap opera. So when things started with Harry a few years back, I called it. He’s gonna do what his mother couldn’t and break away.

I watched the Netflix Documentary and unlike everyone else I know, I loved it.

What’s the deal with the Meghan hate? Immediately, it’s like ‘blame the woman’. When we all know from the get go, Harry was the wild child. We all remember his Vegas Vacation and the nude snaps that came out.

Meghan didn’t grow up rich. She grew up with very little and I can totally understand where her thinking was skewed on how it was going to be. But Harry knew. Like his father, he didn’t prepare her. Because she was a B list celebrity didn’t mean she knew how to handle things. And though I love Harry, I bet he can be a real dick.

Okay all that aside, we saw what happened with Princess Di. Relentlessly hounded by the media, cheated on by her husband, made to look foolish in public. We all heard her side of the story, and I remember people judging her, not believing her. Harry and Meghan say pretty much the same thing, and people are reacting the same way. This isn’t the first or even second time, a royal stepped away and said these things. We all remember Edward.

Plus, hey, Tyler Perry is standing up for them and he is the stand up guy.

I heard someone today say, “He’s turning on his family.” Um, isn’t Meghan and the two kids his family too?

Harry never wanted to walk the normal royal walk. When he served his country he did so unlike any other royal, he led by example and was out there with his men and women. Harry is not stuffy, well, not like the others. He’s like Philip who refused to be tamed.

Maybe I’ll have a different feeling when I read the book, who knows. But I do know this and this is the way I see it. Dick or not, he walked away because he saw things unfolding the exact same way they did with his mother, and her final result is not the history he wanted to see repeated.

I wonder what Sister Mary Louisa would say.

Facing the Writing Changes

 

I think this may be the longest I have gone without blogging, and I think I need to get back into it. Every year, I say the same thing. Who knows, maybe this will be the year.

 I thought about blogging again because I wanted to do a food blog. Since living on my own, I find myself cooking more because, well, I am making what I want to eat not what everyone else likes to eat. My daughter calls them spinster dinners, but technically AM I spinster if I have been married a bunch.

 This year I face a lot of challenges as a writer and any oldie (Writing for Kindle for 7+ years) will know what I mean about changes. I just celebrated my 12^th anniversary with Kindle and the changes are strange. Many I never noticed because I never used a lot of the things other authors did.

It took me 10 years to realize I could email amazon and add my book to different categories other than the two I picked during publishing.  I always thought that was limiting, now, you can tell them what categories to add but you will only really show in three. So I’ll just stick with my two and let Amazon determine from the keywords, like I always did.

There’s a lot of changes in my genre of apocalypse as far as readers go. It starts out subtle, you don’t notice the trend until your rank is no longer what it used to be. So many genres are buried and done, like zombie. No one wants to read about a plague. Forget nuclear war. Until a fresh batch of readers gets scared of it, that will tank. EMP is so overused, as now is the CME events. So what is left? Natural disasters, aliens. I try at least once a year to invent a new type of apocalypse.

I find myself, as others probably do, stalled to the will of the masses. When I actually think my diehard readers don’t care. Yeah, some refuse to read zombie or aliens. But trying to fit the mold takes more time then just writing what comes to me. Be it horror, apocalypse, comedy, BEGINNNINGS!

So for the record, I am making my writing New Year’s Resolutions. I’ll check back in a year and see how I did.

• Finish at least two books I started and never finished.
• Finish a dead trilogy (One I stopped writing because I lost interest)
• Write what I feel, what comes from me. If the genre is a gone genre, vow to bring it back with good story telling..
• Get back to Vella. I like to do a vella book once and a while, they really keep me on my writing tows.
• Make my yearly ‘different’ book that I write, really different.