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November 30, 2016
November 28, 2016
Indie Book Review by Kate M. Colby: A Thousand Rooms by Helen Jones
A review by of Helen Jones’ A THOUSAND ROOMS, which I’ve raved about here before. Highly recommended.
AThousand Roomsby Helen Jones
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Katie didn’t wake up expecting to die. And yet, that’s exactly how AThousand Roomsbegins. As Katie stands on the street, watching emergency responders attend to her body, she waits for whatever comes next. Nothing comes, and Katie is forced to drift about the earth alone in search of her individual heaven, the meaning of her...
November 23, 2016
November 16, 2016
November 14, 2016
The Wonders of Google Maps, Take 2
(Edited to include link to the graphic for email feed)
In addendum to yesterday’s post: I keep finding more crazy-amazing stuff on Google Maps. Just for instance, and for your delectation, here’s a Photo Sphere image of the Great Hall of Nymphenburg Palace (click your mouse inside the image and drag it around for a 360 view):
(If you can’t see the embedded graphic, click on the link here)
Isn’t that something?
And now I have to go fix a sentence in my NaNo manuscript – from my own photos, I...
November 13, 2016
News from the Writing Trenches, or: The Wonders of Google Maps
In case I hadn’t mentioned, it’s NaNoWriMo, which means I’m in the throes of novelling – and novelling, for me, always involves copious researching.
The current story (not a Septimus series book, a standalone) is partially set in Munich, so I’ve got Google Maps permanently open to a map of the city. But not just a map – Google Street View is amazing. I’m constantly hopping back and forth between map view and panning around the streets of the city.
I’m also going back to my photos from last ye...
November 11, 2016
November 9, 2016
November 7, 2016
How Does Your NaNo Grow?
An interesting post by Helen on her experience with NaNoWriMo. Although my experience with NaNo has been somewhat different than hers, I very much relate to what she says about NaNo teaching us to be writers. I can honestly say that without NaNoWriMo, I wouldn’t BE a writer. What started as “Let’s just try this thing out, for fun,” became “Hey, I can write a novel! Who knew?” and from there, “This is who I am.” I’m totally sold on NaNoWriMo – I owe it, big time.
(Oh, and not to repeat myself...
November 5, 2016
Cobblestone Fantasy
We had a meeting of our local NaNoWriMo group this morning. We call it a Write-in, but it’s really more of a Yack-in. It’s just exciting to get together with a whole bunch of other crazy Wrimos and jabber on about how insane this is, and how difficult to find the time, and “Did you get your word count so far?” and “What are you doing about an outline – are you a plotter or a pantser?” And of course, the big question: “What are you writing this year?”
And in the course of that latter discussi...
