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- WHOA – STILL DWELLING IN OUR MOTORHOME – TWO YEARS NOT TRAVELING – FINALLY HAVE INTERNET WE CAN USE – ADAPTED MY NOVEL INTO A SCREENPLAY – THAT WAS FUN – HAD A LOT TO LEARN AND LEARNED WHILE WRITING – NOW READY TO SELL – DUH – PANDEMIC – YOU GOT TO BE KIDDNIG – STILL – OUR GOD REIGNS – THE LORD IS ALWAYS GOOD –
- Our Rocking Rolling 2018 Tour in Our Motorhome – Living Life – Like Everyone Else – Lots of Good Times – Some Trials and Tribulations – But in the End – It’s All Good – God is Good –
- So Long – So Long – Not Goodbye but Too Long not to Post – We Live the RV Life – Data Costs More than We Like – Posting Requires Data – Almost Decided to Quit Posting – Catch Up Time –
- I Opened the Shades to See the Sun Rise – Black Storm Clouds Loomed – What Would Sunrise Look Like – Would the Light Shine Through – YES – Gloom Gave Way to Bursting Shades of Purple Pink and Lavendar – Reminding Me of Troubled Times that Shrink When Grace and Truth Appear – God Is Good – Hang on When Trouble Hides the Light – Ashes Blow Away – Beauty Remains –
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- Books Books – I Read – I Read – And I Wrote the Novel – Buddy for David – Key Words – Crime – Family – Hope – Despair – Adventure – Boy – Dog – Ex Convicts – Love – Courage – Victory – Rich in Action Scenes and Dialogue – Movie to Be –
- Beginning Our 2018-19 Tour in our Motorhome – And the Excitement Builds – What Could Be So Exciting – For Me – Looking Out Our Windows Beholding New Surroundings – I Love It –
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- Las Cruces New Mexico – Destination for Fun with Friends – Fellow RVers Meet Us Here – We Dine Together at Local Restaurants – And There Are Plenty – Steve Had Coach and Jeep Washed after Five Days of Rain and Mud in Texas – Now They Shine Again –
- Long Time No Post – Spent All Our Time Having Fun with Family – But Then Moved on and Parked Here in Louisiana – View of the Bayou – Simple but Adequate RV Park – Staying Longer than Scheduled – Again Diverging from Our Original Plan –
- Moving toward Our Next Destination – Driving a Comfortable Distance – Following Our Plan – Reaching Parks We Booked Months Earlier – Three Days to Rest – Three Days that Fly By –
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WHO IS CAROL ANN RITCHEY – WHY THE CHANGE –
Buddy for David, the novel, was published January 1, 2014. The screenplay I have written is also entitled Buddy for David, by Carol Ann Ritchey, my new pen name. Carol Ann Hoel was my married name when my novel was … Continue reading
Posted in Buddy for David, Memoir
Tagged Buddy for David, Carol Ann Hoel, Carol Ann Ritchey, Change of pen name, copyright, Novel, screenplay
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Books Books – I Read – I Read – And I Wrote the Novel – Buddy for David – Key Words – Crime – Family – Hope – Despair – Adventure – Boy – Dog – Ex Convicts – Love – Courage – Victory – Rich in Action Scenes and Dialogue – Movie to Be –
Boy David Anderod Canine Friend Buddy Unexpected Unwelcome Traumatic Event Family in Distress Bart and Kepper – Child Abduction – Simple Prayer of Captive Boy David Three Days in the lives of David, his family, his captors, law enforcement officers, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Buddy for David, Novel
Tagged Action Scenes, Adventure, Author, Boy, Buddy for David, Carol Ann Hoel, Crime, Despair, Dialogue, Dog, Ex Convicts, Family, Hope, Movie to be, Novel
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Camping on Little Pigeon River Makes Up for Being Canceled by Our RV Park on the Mighty Mississippi – Which Flooded Her Banks This Year – Here We Are on Another Riverbank – Enjoying the View –
We arrived yesterday at 4:00 in the afternoon. We set up our campsite. Steve handled the outside work, connecting utilities, unhooking the Jeep from the tow bar, setting up our grill, and many other related chores. I unpacked our stowed … Continue reading
Our 2017 Tour Begins But in Slow Motion – We Rose Early – First a Fuel Stop – Then a Propane Fill Stop – Arrived Safely at Flagstaff KOA 5:30 PM –
Up the mountain, down the mountain, up the mountain, down the mountain. This is what it seems like to me traveling on I-17 North to Flagstaff, Arizona. I’m not a mountain enthusiast, but I’m determined to get to our destination … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Memoir
Tagged Buddy for David, Carol Ann Hoel, Destination, Diesel, Flagstaff KOA, Fuel Stop, Motorhome, Mountains, Propane Gas, RV, Taco Bell, Winding Roads
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Booking RV Parks – Eight Day Project – Job Complete – 37 RV Parks – 6,588 Miles Driving in Our MotorHome – Everywhere We Park Is Home – Until We Move On –
This is my office space within the living room area of our coach. This is where I spent the better part of eight days finding and booking 37 RV parks for our year 2017 6,588 mile tour of the … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Memoir
Tagged 2017 Tour, Bookings, Buddy for David, Calendars, Carol Ann Hoel, Faith, Internet, Jetpack, Map, Mathematics, Motorhome, Novel, Reservations, RV parks, Suspense
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Perspective
Stretching ourselves again – Lord – Leaving our comfort zone …. How I’ve settled here – Loving sameness – Loving stillness – Sometimes seeing the day we leave Our campsite as the day We launch our home on wheels … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Memoir, Photos, Poetry
Tagged Author, Buddy for David, Carol Ann Hoel, Comfort Zone, Faith, Horizon, Lord Jesus, Motorhome, No fear, Novel, Perspective, Point of View, RV, Suspense, Unknown
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Luxury Campsite (well, you know, relatively speaking) – We Will Leave Mid April – Return Next Winter – Few Sites Offer as Much Area for Patio – We Will Miss This – But We Will Have FUN Doing It –
Lots of room under our awning with shade screen. The canopy behind is also ours. We have eight lawn chairs, a long table. The Weber grill in the background is also ours. Steve grills our foods out there whenever we … Continue reading
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Tagged 2017 Tour, Author, Booking, Buddy for David, Carol Ann Hoel, Complicated, Grapefruit Tree, Kindle, Luxury campsite, Motorhome, Novel, Reservations, RV, Suspense, Weber grill
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Baked Ziti Cooked on the Grill – Would It Be Called Grilled Ziti – Don’t Think So – We Loved It!
We are wintering in Arizona this year. Now that traveling is not the main thing, I am cooking again, but we do not have a conventional oven, at least not yet. Steve was craving baked ziti. He really wanted lasagna, but I … Continue reading
What Genre Do You Read – I Like Suspense – I Read Suspense – I Write Suspense – Buddy for David – Suspense –
Novel: Buddy for David – Having a child go missing would be any parent’s worst nightmare. Yet, this is what happened to the Anderod family on a clear day in July, 1994. Their eight-year-old son David disappeared. The same day … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Books, Buddy for David
Tagged Author, Buddy for David, Carol Ann Hoel, Faith, Hope, kidnapping, Mystery, Novel, parents, Pyrenees, Rachel, Reading, Suspense, Young Adult, Young David
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Why Are These Sticking to the Grill – Says My Hubby – Brush Them with Oil Before You Turn Them – Say I – Yellow Squash Sliced and Oiled – Tasty – Steve Grills – I Love It –
We have it worked out perfectly. I prepare it and Steve grills it. This time I sent him out the door with a small bowl of garlic infused oil to slather on the slices of yellow squash. This keeps it … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Cooking Techniques and Shortcuts, Food, Memoir
Tagged Author, Buddy for David, Carol Ann Hoel, Crock Pot, Garlic Infused Oil, Grilling, Grilling Yellow Squash, Meatloaf, Meatloaf Grilled, Meatloaf ingredients, Old Recipes, Raspberry Pastry, Suspense genre, Yellow Squash
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Being Who Am I – Am I Who I Was Meant to Be – The Answer to the Question Is …
I’ve written a book, but that is not who I am, yet it is part of who I am, because my personal background and experiences are undetectably imbedded into the words of its pages. I can articulate who I am … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Memoir, Thought, Writing Fiction
Tagged Author, Buddy for David, Carol Ann Hoel, Christian novel, Crime Novel, Employee, Grandmother, Great Grandmother, Identity, Mother, Novel, Who am I, Who I was meant to be, Wife, Writer
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Blog Writers – Novel Writers – Non-fiction Writers – Biographers, Historians, Journalists, Grant Writers – Technical Writers – Textbook Writers – All Writers – How Are Writers Influenced by Other Writers – How Does a Writer Acquire that Unique Style of His or Her Own – How Does One Develop an Expertise in One’s Field of Writing that Stands Out –
Composing a blog post, in my opinion, makes you a writer; therefore, this article, if it is read at all, will be read by writers. If you are not one of the writers listed in the title above, then maybe you … Continue reading
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Tagged Biographers, Blog Writing, Buddy for David, Carol Ann Hoel, Dean Koontz, Grant Writers, Historians, Journalists, Non-Fiction Writing, Novel Writing, Novelist, Technical Writers, Textbook Writers, Writing Expertise, Writing Style
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Preview – Buddy for David – Excerpts from Page One and Page Three….
Page 1 – first sentence… On a sunny day in July of 1994 disaster hit the Anderod family as unpredictably as a bolt of lightning striking on a clear day. John loaded the rotor tiller in the bed of his … Continue reading
Writing Successful Fiction – Choosing the Fascinating and Versatile THIRD PERSON OMNISCIENT Point of View (POV) to Tell Your Story –
I’m covering this point of view for writing fiction not because I think it is better than any other, but because this is the one I used in my novel, Buddy for David. It’s the POV that I know by experience. THIRD … Continue reading
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