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Novelling Demon

by jwordsmith on November 29, 2011

I wrote seven thousand words on my novel today.

Seven thousand!

I feel great.

Apart from the slight ringing in my ears.

(Is it possible to break your brain?)

More importantly I learned a lot. But I’m going to have to get away from the computer, so you’ll have to wait to hear about my great epiphanies.

OK, only 5,500 words to go tomorrow, and I can call myself a NaNoWriMo winner two years in a row.

Quite a feat considering that, four days ago, my word count was only 34,000 and I couldn’t see any way to get to 50,000 in that amount of time. Pah. Just goes to show. What goes for running also goes for writing. We are often limited only by what we think is possible.

Yesterday, by the way, writing anything was impossible. Hope that doesn’t happen tomorrow!

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Tick that Box

November 8, 2011 Me

So I voted this morning. I’ve only done that twice in my life before, and the last time was at some point in the early 1990s when I was still a student 1. With all the hoopla over recent elections in the US (hanging chads, anyone?) I was under the impression that everyone had these [...]

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Everything I Need To Know About Economics I Learned In Kindergarten

November 4, 2011 Me

So I’m sitting here listening to people on the radio rant about Class Warfare In America. Uh-huh. I know about class. I may carry a US passport, but they didn’t take away my British one, and that’s where I grew up. Class is not about income. Class is about hierarchy and exclusion. If you’re not [...]

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Thursday Morning

November 3, 2011 Me

Wow, winter has come quickly. I mean, it’s November and we’ve had snow already, and its not that I’m surprised at having to scrape frost off my windscreen at 7:55AM, it’s just that that it’s so sudden. October spent a good part of its time this year pretending to be August (or at least early [...]

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Kindle Fire and Kindle Touch Released

September 29, 2011 ebooks

Amazon has announced the first Kindle tablet PC and the first touch-screen Kindle e-Readers. Highlights Three new e-Ink Kindle models, two of which have a touch-screen Larger screens, smaller bodies (no keyboards) Lower prices – with optional on-screen ads. $79-$189 Kindle Fire – a color, touchscreen tablet device for $199 See more details and my [...]

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Frugal Flapjacks (cereal bars – not pancakes) Recipe

September 20, 2011 Cooking

When I was back in Scotland this summer I rediscovered several things I had completely forgotten about. One of these things was, oh joy, Flapjacks. Flapjacks are not, as in the US, pancakes, but rather a gooey cereal bar consisting mostly of butter and golden syrup and oats, cut into squares and served almost anywhere [...]

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Thank you NASA! Thank you, NASA! thank you, NASA!

July 8, 2011 Me

T-5 minutes to the last ever shuttle launch. Thirty years ago, the first home computers came out. The best had 16k of internal memory. To watch the last launch, I picked up my iPad (64gb internal storage), fired up the NASA app, pressed a button and sent the live video from Florida to my 42″ [...]

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Fun Food For Kids – Dinner Bricks

July 6, 2011 Cooking

I like to feed my kids real food as much as possible – rather than something processed and canned and overpriced — so I like to cook for them. Back when they were babies I cooked everything for them. But when they were hungry, there was no time for  waiting around for chopping, steaming, pureeing. One [...]

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What Will It Take?

July 5, 2011 StoryADay.org

(cross-posted at StoryADay.org) One of my absolute favourite blogs in the world is WhoDunnKnit by Deadly Knitshade. It is funny, absurdly creative and did I mention funny? I’m always inspired by the posts because in them I see someone doing what she loves, doing a really professional job, and committing to her art in a way [...]

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July 4, 2011 Blethers

Today’s post is a private one on my boys’ blog. You probably won’t be able to read it, unless you’re me.   (You’re not, are you?)

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