Elin Gregory's Blog, page 84

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One of the highlights of the British winter is black ice, which on tarmac looks identical to wet tarmac. Consequently, while walking the pooch this morning I marched merrily out of a puddle onto the ice and fell flat on my back. I must've lost a few minutes because an elderly lady who was in the distance when I fell was standing over me when I opened my eyes. She didn't know whether to laugh or be worried. I have bruises everywhere but the dog thought it was great fun! He loves it when we get...

Brrrrrrr

Deeply frustrated because it's just too cold to write. I've been sitting upstairs at my table and when I'd got up to 3 blankets, extra socks and an hat I gave up. Blue is a colour that doesn't suit my hands.So I'm reading instead! :)

WHY blogger - just why?

Am I the only one baffled by the changes to the dashboard? It's a confusing mess rather than a tidy easily navigable tool. Two out of ten for innovation!

Well that was fun!

I managed to finish my Nanowrimo attempt with 24 hours to spare, in that I made the requisite word count on Tuesday morning. The novel is nowhere near finished. I reckon I have at least another 40k to go - hell, I have nearly 300 Romano-Celts to kill off apart from anything else!

So I'm plugging away at that more slowly now and alternating it with bits of On A Lee Shore, which I absolutely MUST get finished soon. I dearly love my pirates, but I want to get on to the second draft where I tighte...

Nanowrimoing!

Despite yesterday being, all told, a bit of a beggar - had to take Mum to hospital to have a cataract done, had to move my PC, chair and books up to a quiet place,etc etc - I still cranked out a fair number of words, not all of which are misspelled. :D

Since I forgot to post about it last night here's my word count for up to lunchtime today:



And because I can - here's a snippet from the very beginning:

"There are worse ways to travel," Cynfal reminded himself. He lifted his head to eye the sc...

Nanowrimo

Well I have a story, I have characters, I know where they are going and in most cases I know how they will die when they get there. What I don't have is anywhere to work.

I'm one of those wussies who needs to feel comfortable, quiet and losed in in order to write effectively. I ENVY, feel real green-eyed jealousy for, those lucky souls who can calmly hammer out their word count while surrounded by the comings and goings of family life. The ones who can stop mid sentence to find a shirt or wipe...

It's been a long old week

Lots of real life stuff going on to interfere with calm and collected internet based activities. I think the low point was having to go through the dustbin to try and find my husband's car keys, though my daughter turning up this morning with an infected lip piercing comes a close second.

However, the keys were found and TCP was applied and I am soldiering on with my pirate novel. 84K words now and I'm nearing the initial climax.

I say initial because there are 2 threats to the well-being of th...

Slow Progress

I don't know - I think these stories are cursed. The past week has been painfully slow progress and now I've shot myself in the foot by buying some work of reference that should make the stories much richer and more relevant to the period. Reading is great fun but it aint writing and so I'm way behind. I have to get myself sorted out before Nanowrimo - it's only a month!

Eleventh Hour has grown a bit:
I've been making myself giggle which can be a good or bad thing. Not many people share my se...

New WIP

I haven't done as much as I hoped I would today, but then I've had a lot of distractions, including reading a play script, betaing a short story for someone and doing household chores. It's good to feel as though one is of some use.

Tomorrow I'll be dismantling the pirate exhibition and preparing the walls and cases to put up the new one which is based on the book and film Resistance by Owen Sheers. It will try to show a little of the story of the Auxiliary Units - the people who were supposed...

Is it just me?

Or is blogger a bit poorly at the moment? I've been trying to log into it for two days now and have only just managed it. It keeps telling me that my username doesn't exist or that my log in details are incorrect. Odd that.

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