NaNoWriMo (end of day 6)
Another grueling day. Where did the beautiful flow of words go? I managed 3334 words today, but I am beat!
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NaNoWriMo (End of day 5)
Whew, today was a tough day. I'm not sure if it was because I pretty much had the weekend of and was having problems getting back into the swing of thing, or what. I'm still happy with the characters so far, as well as the…
NaNoWriMo (end of day 4)
I figured when I started this that weekends would be difficult. The kids are home all the time and Marnie is as well. Saturday has (un)officially become my day to take off and have coffee with my friends for a few hours, but the rest…
NanoWriMo (start of day 2)
So far NaNoWriMo is going really well. I'm still not sure where everything is going, but I'm over 4000 words in on day 2, and I still have a few hours left to write today. I've introduced the protagonist, a 16 year old girl name…
NaNoWriMo
Well, tomorrow is it. NaNoWriMo starts and my life will get very interesting, thirty days of at least 1667 words a day, to complete at least 50,000 words by the end of the month. I'm already feeling stressed out. I was going to take most…
Holidays and Routines
As I've mentioned in other places in this blog, I really like routine. I need routine for my daily chores and for my writing. And nothing breaks up the routines I cultivate better than a holiday. I drove out to Calgary to visit my bro,…
Life continues…
Talk about a slow blog period! Things have actually been happening, but nothing really blog worthy. I managed to get out for a motorcycle ride last weekend… took a long ride out to the Whiteshell area and did some nice twisty roads. Too bad they're…
Talk like a Pirate Day
Arrrr Matey! Did yer know it was Talk Like a Pirate Day today? All yer landlubbers out there kin talk like a Pirate all ye want. I'll be wearin' me pirate hat all day, and if anyone laughs, I'll be makin' a meeting wit' you…
Back to School
It's official, summer is over. My oldest started Grade 2 on Tuesday, and my youngest starts Kindergarten (full-time, mornings) on Monday. We managed to squeeze in one more frog hunting expedition and one more day at the beach. The beach ended up being a tad…