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Nanolomo: So You Want To be a Wizard by Diane Duane

This is another of those significant books published in the year of my birth. Though really it isn’t just the one book, but also Duane’s whole Young Wizards series. The story: Nita Callahan, hiding out in the library from the local bullies, finds a book titled ‘So You Want To Be a Wizard.’ Intrigued, she [...]

Lazy Nano post is lazy…

No meters, just the bare facts: Words done today: 1715 Word count for month so far: 8609 Word count for project in total: 43, 679 That is all.

Nano Word Count Update

On track. Today could have been better, writing wise, but I’m still on track. Exhausted now though, so heading straight to bed. I’ll try catch up with Nanolomo tomorrow night. I’d push it to stay up later, but am in at work tomorrow so think it would be wiser to get sleep. So bloody glad [...]

Nanolomo: Galax Arena by Gillian Rubinstein

Another Australian book, this time, what was one of my first forays into science fiction, and also perhaps one of the darker books I encountered. Not dark just because of the theme of its plot – children kidnapped into space to perform high-risk gymnastics so their adrenalin rush would be transmuted to their alien audience [...]

The trick is not minding that it’s Nano.

Today was better for writing. Much better. I was reminded by someone on Facebook that it focusing on the word count is probably not the way to go, but to focus on keeping writing. It was a useful tip. With me also, I kind of need a scene to do, and I really need to [...]

Nanolomo: The Complete Adenvtures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie

I’m not sure how well-known outside of Australia these stories – and art work, especially – are. Even if you didn’t read, or had read to you, the stories of the gumnut babies Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, their friends Ragged Blossom, and Mr Lizard, and those dastardly Banksia men, if you’re Aussie, you know the image [...]

A few small repairs for Nano

It’s an ‘on track’ word count. And I am ok with that. I had hoped for more today, but found I hit a couple of blocks. There is a book I really want to read for background of one of my two protagonists, and I really am at that stage where it will be relevant [...]

Nanolomo Master Post

1 November: Mog in the Dark

Nanolomo: Mog in the Dark

Mog sat in the dark and thought dark thoughts. It strikes me as interesting that one of my favourite books as when I wasn’t even 10 was published the year I was born (1983 – which additionally is when another favourite, So You Want To Be a Wizard, was also published – that’s coming later [...]

November! Many things afoot…

November is upon us. Two months left to go of 2012, and I’m feeling ambitious. Or insane. Or both. It’s been a while since I seriously considered Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month). A friend/former colleague commented on Facebook when I posted something about it, and I realised that we’d been working together when I did [...]