Another tangentially-related activity you and many others can enjoy instead of working studiously, industriously on your NaNo manuscript is bagel making! Everyone loves bagels. Well, I do. I freaking can’t get enough of them at the moment. I’m having them at breakfast, then taking them to work and toasting more for lunch. I keep wanting [...]
Also tagged NaNoStill behind on that NaNo word count, huh? Yeah, me too. Mostly because I get easily distracted. Like writing blog posts on things that are tangentially related to NaNo. Beans! Delicious, recently-roasted Alan’s Blend from Coffee for Connoisseurs, waiting to be ground. I’ve ordered from there a few times and I heartily reccommend the Espresso [...]
Also tagged NaNoIf, like me, you’re behind on your wordcount for NaNoWriMo — and by behind, I mean you would have to write 13,000 words today in order to bring yourself up to where you’re meant to be by two days ago — there are many options available to you to offset the pang of an arbitrarily [...]
Also tagged NaNoHonestly, don’t take advice from me. I haven’t a clue. I started out on the ol’ NaNoWriMo bandwagon, and astonishingly I was doing pretty well — not only did I find myself ahead of the curve, but I actually liked what I was writing (well, not all of it, but that’s okay too). And then [...]
Also tagged NaNoA lot of good things, maybe even most good things, come about slowly. I have been thinking about this a lot after I posted on slow and steady knitting, and began applying the slow, steady idea to other things in my life. Take Pongo, my beloved sourdough starter. Way slower than a package of freeze-dried [...]
Also tagged awesome, croissanty goodnessI sometimes wonder if I have some sort of pathological compulsion to verb-ify nouns (I think I just did it again). Bandwagonning: to jump onto a bandwagon of some sort. I, like 98% of the international blogging community, will be doing NaNoWriMo this year. I do it most years, and I really enjoy it. I [...]
Also tagged NaNoOkay, I’m going to spend a couple of paragraphs explaining what I’ve been up to lately, but bear with me: there’s knitting stuff coming up. On Friday, our orgy of packing and boxing and cleaning climaxed with Moving Day (there’s a metaphor that probably should have been shot in its early development). I have moved [...]
Also tagged Yarn makes it all betterI realise the claim that I am a bold and innovative thinker is not supported by my question “what is normal?”, but given that there’s already some debate as to whether or not I am a thinker at all, let alone what kind, I’m happy to simply skim past that debate like a dieter skims [...]
Also taggedI love Random X-day posts. They’re like a get-out-of-jail-free card for blogging. 1. I don’t care that the calendar still says August, it is totally spring here. Observe the following evidence: the ornamental cherry and pear trees have all begun blossoming; the frosts have stopped; this morning I left the house without a coat and [...]
Also taggedWe had some bad news this week. And then it became even worse news; almost the worst; and bad enough that it filled my eyes with hot black fire and made me feel hate like I have never felt. There are, of course, some things about which I can do nothing. And when the angry [...]
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