Tales From Sea Glass Inn by Karis Walsh

Author:Karis Walsh [Walsh, Karis]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Lesbian, Romance
ISBN: 9781626396432
Google: gn2JjgEACAAJ
Amazon: B01H2VLZKI
Goodreads: 30655195
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2016-07-11T22:00:00+00:00

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Ari looked up from her laptop and checked the clock on the wall. She had been writing for an hour—twice as long as yesterday. Not her personal best by any means, but much better than three hours of typing and deleting a single sentence. She saved her document and closed the screen. She was happy and relieved to be back to work, even on a small scale, and she didn’t want to push it and scare her newfound ideas away.

She grabbed her notebook and a heavy wool sweater and jogged down the steps with a renewed sense of energy. When she crossed the backyard and passed the studio, she saw Pam inside. She was sitting at the wooden table with a pile of multicolored sea glass in front of her. They waved at each other, and Pam went back to sorting while Ari walked to the staircase and down to the beach. She hoped Pam would be creating again soon, and not just looking for menial tasks to do in the studio. Although she had talked to Pam about her rediscovery of her ability to write, Ari had carefully refrained from offering any advice or cheery encouragement. She and Pam both understood how difficult stagnation was. Ari was crawling out of the hole she had dug for herself, but Pam was still inside hers. She’d find her way out sooner or later, with Mel’s support and her own drive to paint.

Ari climbed on the tall driftwood trunk and sat with her legs dangling over the side. She gently kicked her heels against the wood while she opened her notebook and started to write. Not a story, but a journal. She started with details, like what time she had gotten out of bed and how her new novel was progressing, and then she jotted down some of the memories from her teenage years she had recalled this morning. She was still using words to explore the turmoil of emotions she felt, and not working them out internally, but at least she was writing as herself and not filtering her feelings through a fictional character. Someday she would create a novel using these notes, her image of the woman on the bluff, and the premise of loss and guilt. Just not now.

Ari stared at the waves. They were calm and gray-green today. She closed the notebook and sat still, matching her breath with the steady thrum of the vast ocean. She wasn’t about to offer unsolicited advice to Pam, but she had been willing to take the words Jocelyn had thrown at her and act on them. After her anger had ebbed, Ari had considered Jocelyn’s suggestions. They had been pushy and intrusive, but slowly Ari had recognized the sense behind them. The night of the book signing, she had made notes until two in the morning for an idea she had thought of during her stay at the inn. She had ignored the unfolding story at first because she was determined to write the novel about mothers and daughters, but it had remained buried in the back of her mind.

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