Since I’m feeling better I’m back to my hobbies. Still going slower than usual, but getting things done. First, NaNoWriMo I have 8,917 at the moment. I need 10,002 for today’s goal. So I have to get this done and get back to work.
Got this badge a couple days ago.To the arch on my son’s socks.
I’m finally back to 30 minutes on the stationary bike on the 2nd level.
I’m back to challenging myself to improvise chords in music. My aim is to stop needing to read music, just sit and play. My first work is Mistyย i want to learn to move easily between chords.
My third dragon is nearly finished.
I can’t wait to be finished with these. I have a cute otter waiting for me to play with.
Since I can’t update this on the home screen, I’ll update here. This book is due in two days. I already have it on hold, as I may not finish it this round. I can’t read it at night. As a nonfiction book, it is scary as heck! I’m at 45% so far. *** I wrote the above statement the first time I checked out the audiobook from Libby. I could only read it during the day. So when I could renew it, I finished the book. I already thought I’d need to renew it again. But I managed. It was due today.
Science fiction is my favorite genre. I have seen enough movies and read enough books to have a healthy respect for AI, robots, and the like. But this book is NONfiction and is the scariest thing I have ever read. It is not doom and gloom, but a strong suggestion that we be careful as we move forward with this science. Please read it. And if you have any influence on engineers or computer people, share the cautions this book offers.
Another book that kept me awake all night. Karen Robards wrote a compelling book, and Nancy Peterson narrated it and brought it to life. This book was different than the other WWII books. It takes place in Spain. Another European country that isn’t brought up much. This story deepens our understanding of this corner of the world while giving us a personal sense of what it might have been like. As with all these books, the historical research is obvious, and the author gives her notes at the end.
I highly recommend this audiobook. I was lucky to find it on Libby.
As of now, I have 3730 words in my new project, “Stories from the Ceiling”
My goal is the usual 50K. I had no plot, as the book No Plot No Problem by the guy who started this (Chris Baty) suggested.
This year I planned to select a picture or painting at random to write something creative about it. Instead, my husband and I bought something like this:
The one we got has fuzzy pictures. I have shared a couple of them, as they have been a part of the stories from the ceiling. We bought this to help with sleeping. Waking in the middle of the night and having something to look at except the little lights from chargers, etc. Since we weren’t happy with the fuzzy pictures, we found a better one; I hope that has more holograms and motion. I can’t wait to see whales swimming in my bedroom.
As for NaNo, there are a couple of websites to keep track of or even help with writing.
Since I use a combination of WriteItNow (now defunct) for finding random characters and traits and yWriter7, I find the Studio Writing Habit website a bit cumbersome. But maybe some of you can use it.
What do you all use? What are ways you get inspired?
I wish I liked this series better. Maybe I’ll try it again later. I just haven’t connected with any of the characters or cared what happened. Maybe if it were in audio form with a good narrator, I could have enjoyed it better. This is not to say this was awful. As a casual read, say at the beach, it might have been better.
I am grateful I was able to get the Kindle edition through Libby.
My only costume on most Halloweens is a T-shirt my son gave me ages ago.
We lived in Anaheim back then. My oldest and my future stepson worked at Knott’s Berry Farm.
Stream of Consciousness wants to remind me to tell of the time my family of six plus my mom, dad, and brother got into Disneyland for free. Not right now, ADHD brain.
Anyway, every year KBF throws a Halloween Haunt. I don’t do those. I know people love them. People in costumes…
Big confession here…
Anyone who changes their face and personality are scary to me. My adult self gets it. It’s pretending. I enjoy watching others enjoying their cons and costumes. I enjoyed playing Old Sally in Oliver and a maid in My Fair Lady, back in… The stream jumped me again, another story for later…
Anyway, who’s to say some crazy doesn’t jump into insanity and has real swords or real chainsaws…
Why would anyone want to scare someone else?
Isn’t it scary enough these days?
Don’t tell me I’m a chicken. I should trust?
Anyway, back into the original stream.
On my back where I don’t see it. Glow in the dark still working.
Front of shirt. The year my sons worked at KBF
The most fun I have on Halloween happens at midnight where I begin to pretend to be an author writing dangerously, words as fast as I can, to aim for 50K by November 30th at midnight.
There be some dangerous people and situations coming up, far from It’s a Small World, after all.
Midwifery made this World War II novel different. And the fact that the main character was German gave another viewpoint of what that war was like. Women still gave birth, often something forced on them. So midwives were necessary.
Mandy Robotham’s novel breaks the rules and makes the reader see the level of life that surrounded and complicated living. Julia Winwood narrates the story. If you like Call the Midwife and other stories like that, this will fill the bill. I was fortunate to find this on Libby. I hope you get the chance to read or listen to it.
โAfter reading I many books about WWII and the women who played their part, I wondered why I seemed to have covered only parts in Europe. I barely got that thought out when this book appeared on Libby’s list of similar books. I had read other books by Heather Morris, such as The Tattooist of Auschwitz. I loved that one. I couldn’t go wrong.
Laura Carmichael of Downton Abbey narrated the book. She has so many accents to play in this book. Australian nurses, among others. Please read the blurb on Goodreads or Amazon.
This is one of the best historical fiction books I’ve read/listened to. I hope you get the chance to read it; even more, I hope you get to listen to the audiobook.
Working on my series: Haven.
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I have been on disability/retired for 10 years now from depression, anxiety and fibromyalgia.
Hi! my name is Sebastian (You can call me Seb!) ...welcome to my Blog. I'm a photographer from Worcester, Worcestershire, England. Thanks for dropping by! I hope you enjoy my work.
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