10,396 words banked thus far…

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I think I have a routine down now. I struggled back and forth between painting and writing that I felt like I couldn’t get them both done. Now I have a notebook within arm’s reach so that when I’m painting, I can remind myself of the notes and what scenes I’ve thought up in order […]

Chocolate. Doesn’t stay melted so easily.

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Day Five of NaNoWriMo. Word Count: 8,693 It’s still going along slowly. Still scraping the bottom of the barrel to grab the next scenes out of nowhere but still hoping I’ll break down a wall and find some adventure waiting to be told. 😉 My three gingerbread folks are finally sealed and done. Painting the […]

Balancing Act

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I’m dancing as fast as I can and producing few results. It feels like I’m not moving at a good pace with the gingerbread folks so I set up another table in the den – Oh, I’m sorry. The ‘room-that-catches-all’ – so that I can get some more pieces primed and try to get it […]

Day 2 of NNWM 2011

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Well, that was rather painful. I spent much longer today trying to meet today’s daily word goal. I kept opening word count to see how close I was before calling it quits for the day. I don’t understand how an idea that has pestered me for two years feels like trying to pick the meat […]

Day 1 – Check!

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After staring for hours at a blank white screen (MS Word), I finally forced myself to start out with a scene. I then spent the next couple hours trying to figure out what happens in this scene and how it can affect things later on. After hammering out 1,719 words, I have officially met today’s […]

NaNoWriMo has started. Day 1.

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NaNoWriMo has started! If you’re just hearing about this for the first time, NNWM is basically a personal challenge. You’re challenging yourself to write 50,000 words through the month of November. It gives you that extra oomph to start a novel. This year’s NNWM, I have decided to write a story titled “The Coming of […]

Happy Halloween!

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Carve your pumpkins yet? Got your costumes picked out? Hope so. Halloween’s here. Heh! I haven’t gotten into watching any horror movies though… but does “The Walking Dead” count? I couldn’t wait for the second season but is it me or is it moving awfully slow? I wish they’d find Sophia and get back on […]

Painting Gingerbread Wood Cutouts

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It’s that time again. My father makes wood cutouts and I paint them. While I’ve painted various themed cutouts for them, my true passion is the Gingerbread Village for Christmas. It’s been slowly growing over the past years. I had completely forgotten about it until a catalog came in and my father asked me what […]

Writing Non-Fantasy?

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There were all these people living on Earth… and then a wizard showed up! What? No wizard? Darn. After talking with a friend, I realized that the only thing I write is fantasy. Everything I write just drips with fantasy. You can feel waves of fantasy coming off any story I write. I forced myself […]

Write a review of the last movie you saw. – Day Zero

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The Daily Post asks: Write a review of the last movie you saw. This took a bit of thinking… I was absolutely positively sure that it had to be a horror movie since Halloween is making them all crawl out of the woodwork. It turns out that the last movie I saw was “Day Zero”. […]