So, I completed NaNoWriMo 2012. I have a funky badge to prove it - look: I also have a Scrivener project that is 54,127 words long and impossible to summarise. I am using the excuse that the novel isn't actually finished as my reason my I am unable to describe what it is about without… Continue reading NaNoWriMo 2012 and The December 750 Words Challenge
Author: CaroleHeidi
I'm a 30-something mum of two Not-So-Small humans, a cat, & a rottweiler. I read a lot, write a bit, eat too much cake and have dubious taste in music. I'm a Leader in Squirrel Scouts, and if I'm not at home, I'm probably at the Scout Hut. My hair is usually some shade of blue...
December Reading
How is it December already? Oh well, that means I have 31 days to read 6 books in order to hit my personal target of 52 books in 2012. Along with finishing the novel I started last month in NaNoWriMo (but turned out to be a story that needs more than 50,000 words to tell)… Continue reading December Reading
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November Reading – 100 Word Reviews
Ballad by Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic Children's Books, 2009) ~ 5/5* (A perfect research read for my NaNo project too!!) Opening line: I was used to being the hunter. ~ I launched into Ballad without reading it's predecessor Lament; I loved the Shiver series though so had high hopes. I wasn’t disappointed as I found myself… Continue reading November Reading – 100 Word Reviews
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On Wanting To Give Up
Tomorrow is the final day of NaNoWriMo and I should be sailing through to the finish. Happy, exultant and relishing in my 50,000 word novel first draft. Instead, I am curled on the sofa 3,247 words from the finish wondering if I can give up yet. Three thousand words. That's nothing really, I've written nearly… Continue reading On Wanting To Give Up
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Quotes Of The Week
From the mouths of babes... Mummy: Use the door handle, Arthur. It's above your head. Arthur: *headbutts door underneath handle* Ow. * Tori: I don't want to use that tissue, it's got a hole in it. Mummy: It still works just fine. Tori: But my nose might get stuck in it 'cause there's a hole!
