This week on RWW, A.S. Fenichel asks, “It’ s almost Halloween… do you like to dress up? Did you ever? What’s the most fun part of Halloween for you and how do you celebrate?”
Me decades ago with face painted like the album cover “Eat’Em and Smile.”
It was the only time I dressed in costume as an adult. Since then, I’ve had the greatest fun helping my son with his costumes over the years!
“Come with me…”
Just a trim off the top
The Beast
Zoro
Call of Duty
Taz
We usually carve a pumpkin to put on the front porch. Now I just help design and leave the rest to our son and the Dremel.
A new carver
Halloween is pretty subdued around our house. We put on our favorite movies: Hocus Pocus, Fright Night and Lost Boys. There might be a cocktail or two served while giving out candy.
Now on to the lovey Leslie Hachtel. Her Dance Series is on sale.
This week on Romance Writers Weekly, A.S. Fenichel admits to doing an abundant amount of research for her books and wants to know any fun/interesting things other RWW authors have learned recently learned while researching.
These days it feels like my muse has wondered off into the quantum realm. There’s no research going on unless bingeing on the Science, History and Animal Planet channels or falling down the YouTube rabbit hole is considered research.
While I might not be writing, I tell myself that at least
I’m feeding my gray matter more than reality TV show dribble or the endless
self-absorbed social media fodder and the cesspool of political rhetoric, but I
digress…
Back to researching or in my case “wandering.” While trying to locate my muse, I recently discovered that in the quantum realm subatomic particles behave differently when being observed.
“One of the oddest predictions of quantum theory – that a system can’t
change while you’re watching it – has been confirmed in an experiment by
Cornell physicists. Their work opens the door to a fundamentally new method to
control and manipulate the quantum states of atoms and could lead to new kinds
of sensors…
The popular press has drawn a parallel of this work with the “weeping angels” depicted in the Dr. Who television series – alien creatures who look like statues and can’t move as long as you’re looking at them. There may be some sense to that. In the quantum world, the folk wisdom really is true: “A watched pot never boils.”
See, Science Fiction is right again! Some take this a step further and feel that one may control destiny.
“The most
simplified version of the answer is that you attract into your life what you
think about. This can include conscious and subconscious thoughts. By training
yourself to think in the proper way, you can bring certain things or events
into your reality. Dr Eric Amidi adds that our observations impact the reality being observed, allowing
our thoughts and perceptions to affect that reality.
To bring more
positive things into your life, you must train yourself to expect them to
occur. Alternatively, some choose to think as though their desired outcome has
already occurred, as this promotes the necessary mind-set. The shift in mindset
would impact how you see the world, allowing your observations to shift your
reality into a more favourable state.”…
If this is reality or what I presume to make my reality, then I should be able to summon my muse back from Ant Man’s subatomic plane. Sorry if you don’t get the Marvel reference. At any rate, I must believe it for it to be so.
Now on to A.S. Fenichel to see what she has recently learned from her abundant research on A Lady’s Past which is available for Preorder and on NetGalley and Amazon PreOrder.
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