Due to Xfinity/Comcasts’ inabiltity to keep up with internet traffic, the internet in my part of the world was down last night. I couldn’t post my word count at the NaNoWriMo site, and I couldn’t add a post to my own site. I was so frustrated with the whole thing, and thought about calling them to […]
NaNoWriMo – Day Six
For NaNoWriMo, I decided to do something differently tonight, and that is, do my writing the first thing I got home. I had ideas last night, as I lay in bed, and no time today to grab any of my beloved 3 x 5 cards to write anything down. So, while my two baked potatoes […]
NaNoWriMo – Day Five
Oh, my goodness, I’ve hit day five! For a good part of the day, I kept thinking to myself, “Yes, today is the day I might stop. It always happens on the fifth day.” But with my thoughts of other Nanowrimo writers all around the world working so hard, and with my indie author friends […]
NaNoWriMo – Day Two
So it’s day two of the big experiment, otherwise known as NaNoWriMo, and I’ve written 2,122 words today. It was quite a fun scene to write, as Jack is quite ill, and Oliver is the only one to tend him. Plus I’m very pleased to be sticking to the plan! More importantly, I’m being reminded […]
Cozy Classics – Oliver Twist
I’m currently working on my next book, the working title of which is Oliver and Jack. I meant to come and post something about how Oliver and Jack are currently lost in the wilds of the Norwood Forest, or something erudite about writing, or something about up-to-the-minute news, but then I came across a series […]
Starting a Novel in Scrivener
After having looked at my pile of papers for about a week after buying Scrivener, I determined that I would take the plunge and start my project. But first I had to get a template! Actually I could build my own template, but Scrivener seemed so overwhelming to me, I was somewhat hooked on using other […]