E.M Redshaw's Blog: Storyworldofem, page 27

National Novel Writing Month

Today I want to travel back in time with you and talk about my history with NaNoWriMo, one of the greatest annual events of all time.

It's when x writers around the world pledge to write a 50,000 word novel in November, encourage each other, join in writing sprints and try to just have fun with storytelling!

Nanowrimo is a non-profit organization that supports writers young and old with education and networking worldwide, also offering us sponsors and gift codes if we manage to 'win' aka write...

I am a recipe for disaster

But this recipe tastes like heaven.

Recipe:

- Mushrooms
- Baby corn
- A tiiiiny bit of butter or oil
- Tomatoes
- Fresh mozarella
- Season with salt, pepper, chili & herbs of choice

Throw it in the oven for 20-30 minutes in high heat. 200°C or so.

- Optional: serve with potato salad

It's delicious! And super easy!

Settling in & struggling

As you may know, I've now lived in a completely new place for two weeks. And it's been wonderful.

There's so much to write about that it overwhelms me and I can't choose what's the most important.

Lincoln has an overflow of pretty details and magical little crooks and corners and stories everywhere, waiting to be told.




I've been so lazy with writing lately--ok, maybe not lazy, more like preoccupied with everything else. I have just tried to not think about my stories too much because I want to f...

I think this is love

Confession time! I can't say that I know what it's like to be in love with another person, but I can say with utmost certainty that I am in love with this city. Lincoln has turned out to be everything I expected and slightly more. I came into England thinking that it would rain all day and night because that's the weather in Finland right now and everybody knows England is super duper rainy--even rainier than Finland.

Well, turns out I should've packed way more t-shirts and skirts, because it'...

Thoughts while traveling to Lincoln

I had a very disastrous journey from London to Lincoln, but now you can enjoy my confused random thoughts and perhaps have a laugh or two (because that's what audiences are for: to laugh at you when you're miserable. I'm joking. I'm not miserable. Just exhausted).
"People are wearing shorts?!?" said out loud and then instantly regretted.
I wish I could speak like an englishgirl. But my 'american' accent gives me away as a foreigner, and that makes people explain everything a bit slower. And I'm...

Momentarily Homeless

Panic. It's time to panic.
Imagine this: you are on the airplane to England. No, don't imagine it. It's happening right now. Just look out the window.
I know! I said it first: time to panic!
This lil kitten wanted to come with me to England, and I wish I could've taken her :(I woke up at 3am today, whereafter I spent two hours in the backseat of the car, staring at dark clouds and the slightly yellow motor way lights and a round-as-cheese moon...

Finland

Since I was a kid I’ve always been sort of a little forest fairy or nymph. I spent the first few years of my life in Finland, the second half of my childhood in Sweden, and now that I’ve gotten to do a bit of traveling, I couldn’t be happier to have got to grow up in the north.
So many moments getting lost and found in the woods, magic discovered in hidden ponds and adventures made in wet swamps, on steep cliffs and misty fields.My nationality is something I’ve always kinda thought about a lot...

You Should Travel Solo

The first time I ever traveled to another country alone was last autumn, when I went to Stockholm alone after Golden Days to meet some family. Yeah, technically I wasn't alone all the time because my relatives live there and they took care of me, but it was still pretty nerve-wracking. I was super scared.



So you can only imagine how scared I was the past week when I went to Copenhagen alone.
Well, again, technically I wasn't alone because I met some friends and old acquaintances who kept me com...

Letting go

17 days left in this wonderland of lakes and snow, forest and swamp.

Today I spent all day packing boxes, cleaning out my closets and throwing out sooo much garbage that I've been hoarding and holding onto for ages.

I usually have a hard time letting go. The first fifteen years of my life I just wished I could travel back in time and never grow up, and I held onto every piece of childhood possible.

But lately I've come to understand the phrase "messy desk, messy mind" on a whole new level.

As you...

The Last Days of Summer

I see trees with golden leaves and watch raindrops racing down the windows, but it honestly doesn't feel like autumn yet.

I might still be naively stuck in summer, or maybe I'm just mourning the loss of sunny days and frolicking on flowery meadows, but I'm not ready to let go of it yet.

My body's telling me that it's getting colder and darker (I'm actually currently stuck in bed suffering from a flu and sipping a steaming cup of rooibos that tastes like nothing with my sickly non-functional tas...