Michelle Athy's Blog, page 21

Ireland: Most Peaceful Ruins

The tower was ahead of a me--a medieval round tower, the sign next to it said, built of gray stone. Coming up the rather rocky path and the higgledy-piggledy headstones ahead of us, the tower was the...

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Art in Georgian/Regency England

The Exhibition room, Royal Academy of Arts My heroine, Jane, is in London in 1804. She likes to paint and draw, but hasn't done either in the year since her husband died. Also, I need her to...

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Ireland: Best Alcohol Related Tour

The Jameson chandelier! In fairness, my cousin Liz and I only went on two alcohol-related tours on this trip to Ireland, so to proclaim one "the best alcohol related tour" isn't quite right. They...

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Ireland Trip: Best Scenery: The Ring of Kerry

On Wednesday, August 9th, my cousin Liz and I and the rest of the merry band of twenty people who made up our tour group set off from Limerick for County Kerry because we were going to see the Ring...

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Accurately Titled Novels and a travel notice

First order of business: I came across a really funny writing-related album on the Facebook: Accurately Titled Novels. While giggling in glee at the titles (Especially the one about winning the...

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IWSG: Pet Peeves

It's the first Wednesday in August, which means it's time for IWSG! Do check out the IWSG here. I can report that the novel is plugging along. I restarted the draft in a way--there's an inciting...

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Goodreads Reading Challenge: 20 Books Read!

20 down. 15 to go. I'm still in the middle of two 500 page+ nonfiction history books, but I have finished twenty books total! Also, I think I hit a spate of pretty covers, so there they are below....

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Opening Lines

Not very long ago, writing buddy Krystal wrote a post with the opening lines of her older writings and they were raw and often hilarious. Recently, as I've been going on a cleaning binge, I piled a...

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Reasons Why I'm Changing Things in My Draft: A List

Reasons why I duplicated my draft document and decided to change a few very essential things when I was already over 24, 000 words: 1. Somewhere around two thousand words ago, I noticed that my...

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IWSG July

It's the first Wednesday of July and that means IWSG time! Woot-Woot! I hope the Americans in the crowd had a good Independence Day. You can check out the IWSG here! Let me see--insecurities. 1) Why...

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