I recently read and enjoyed Leah McLaren’s the continuity girl. It was my guilty pleasure while I was doing all that entertaining and writing to complete the JulNoWriMo Challenge (see previous posts). Meredith Moore is an obsessive film script supervisor, the person responsible for making sure the timeline of a movie visually matches in each […]
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Hooray! I did it. I completed the insane writing challenge from Chris Baty’s inspirational book, No Plot? No Problem? A Low-Stress High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days.I started on July 2, 2008 and I finished yesterday (July 31, 2008) with a total of 51 951 words. Break out the champagne! I even
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Yesterday we took our Swedish visitors to Canada’s Wonderland. It was a lot of fun and for once the weather cooperated. It was perfect, 26 degrees and dry. This was a great relief after visiting and trying to photograph Niagara Falls in the rain. At Wonderland we investigated a few roller coasters but wait times
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Yesterday I managed to catch up a couple of days on my word count, leaving me only 1000 words short of target for that date. Not bad considering I also took my son for a bike ride and some tennis and went to a wild, singing party in the evening. I think I was home
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I’m a little behind on my word count due to a two-day trip to Niagara Falls with my Swedish relatives. I think I was probably nuts to choose July as the best time to take on the write-a-novel-in-a-month challenge. Lots of people do reading challenges. Many of my favorite bloggers, for example, have multiple reading
Last night we had a lovely party for my husband’s mother with cake, way too much food and, of course, chocolate. Today I am hoping the driving rain we had most of yesterday is over. The Swedish family is off to Canada’s Wonderland to ride roller coasters. I can’t attend because of a funeral. Although
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In case any one reads this and thinks I’m creating a fabulous artistic work in 31 days, rest assured, if I put that kind of pressure on myself, I’d never reach the 50 000 word mark. The good news so far is that I seem to be naturally creating a related ‘A’ story and ‘B’
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My one month to a 50 000 page ‘novel,’ (in length anyway) is almost over. According to the helpful schedule printed in No Plot No Problem (see previous) I should have written 30 006 words by the end of today. So far I have written 21 680, which is to say I am about four
I wasn’t supposed to do it. This summer I have so much to do. I promised the administration at my school that I’d have a musical written for the fall. I have guests coming from Sweden who will be in Canada for three weeks. I have my son home from school rather than in day
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Booking Through Thursday:Do your reading habits change in the Spring? Do you read gardening books? Even if you don’t have a garden? More light fiction than during the Winter? Less? Travel books? Light paperbacks you can stick in a knapsack?Or do you pretty much read the same kinds of things in the Spring as you
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