AtoZ Challenge 2013, ready or not here I come

I signed up for the A to Z Challenge 2013. This will be my third time setting out on this journey. This year I'm going to stick with a theme; characters and places. That will give me 26 characters and places/settings to write about... I think I can fill that pretty easily. I will then have a collection of characters and places to use for projects I have in my head.

Here is looking ahead to April.

A to Z Challenge Reflections

I have so many of the posts still in draft form, but haven't put the finishing touches on them. This challenge opened so many gates to my characters and gave me so many options as far as story lines. I am going to finish the alphabet and post them as I can, even though I didn't get them all done in April I will finish them. What an amazing challenge for a writer, for that matter for any blogger. I am so grateful to my characters to opening up and letting me get to know them along the way.

Thank you A to Z challenge for kicking my but into gear!

B is for boys

Two little men, rather small, but eager to please nanny as she shuttled them toward their bedroom. Mother and Father would  be home within the hour and expected their little boys to be in bed and near sleeping.
Nanny wasn't sure they would make it, but she was giving it her best. Most evenings Mother and Father were off at some charity event while Nanny watched the boys. Mother and Father would return in time to check in on the boys tucked in their beds. The next morning it was again Nanny who would get the up and ready for the day.
Oscar being 7 was already in school full time so Nanny got him up first , helping him get his school uniform on and breakfast eaten before waking  Jonathan up. Jonathan was only 4 and preschool was only 3 days and in the afternoon so there wasn't the strong push to get him ready.  Nanny would get him up and dressed  as Oscar was eating breakfast. Following Oscar's breakfast Nanny and Jonathan would walk Oscar the 9 blocks to the big brick building where he would spend the rest of the day.
Nanny walked Jonathan back to the house and set up his breakfast. Some morning Mother would join then for the late breakfast and let Jonathan tell her about his adventures.  Nanny would pick up their bedroom and then play or read Jonathan a story to fill the time before lunch and  preschool.
Nanny loved her boys and her boys loved her.

A is for alone

Alone in her thoughts, alone in her job, and worse alone in her life in this city.
As awful as most people would think that scenario, Addie was very content in her aloneness, at least for the time being.
Her days were full of reading scripts, editing, and rearranging scenes for various events; while her nights were spent quietly dreaming and working on her own project and dreaming of one day seeing her own production live on the stage. While this wasn't New York, she enjoyed the city life and for know the humming of a busy city outside her apartment window kept her company.