I’ve learned some interesting things about black holes. A ceiling picture I had thought Saturn or another ringed planet:
Looks like the picture of a black hole:
The trouble with writing are black holes and rabbit holes!
ADHD and writing, phew!
Grabbing onto my virtual shirt and forces of the universe to get back to work.
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.
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.
Now back to typing.๐
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.
and the one I might use if I want to play with it:
https://studio.writinghabit.app/write/U5gg42p5J4RZ3Cc2fRmC/plan
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?
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.
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.
Self-Editing On A Penny: A Comprehensive Guide by Ashlyn Forge
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
For NaNoWriMo and Camp Nano, I have written approximately 20 books, most of them 50K or more. But here I am, the worst editor ever. But I simply love the stories as they run from my brain to the keyboard. Hence, I need to read many more books like this to reach the next step.
This was an audiobook with Sandy Vernon (narrator), Faust Kells (narrator), and Ashlyn Forge (author and publisher). With the couple of voices, the listener stays focused on the topic at hand.
Can I say that this is all the right advice? No. I am not educated enough in the publishing end of writing. It does seem to have a lot of great ideas I will try to follow as I move along. But the title feels misleading, especially if we think we can get by on a penny. Certainly Ms. Forge’s book proves it can’t be done. Sadly, this retired person can’t afford a lot of the processes described here. Still, I did learn a lot and will keep trying to find answers.
Holding up the princess dress with the empire-waist, she admired the illusion. She could be the empress. But there on the wall, the hand print. Blood?
She remembered the bare foot imprint in the flower garden. They were trying to impress her with their daring, trying to scare her.
It took her five minutes to dress and sweep her hair into the crown. She could impress, too.
Still biding her time, she bagged the crown and donned her long raincoat. She and the magician had a secret. Two more months.
Leaning against the tree, she felt the universe of power as she watched the interloper being eaten. The dragon wasn’t impressed. Still he winked. The empress was impressed.
For next year, I hope I start Christmas music before Halloween. I’d like to be more proficient by this point. And I hope I know those last few songs with very little brush up time.
Oh, in case you need to see how gentle goals help:ย
I started back to piano last October. The goal: sit and play as long as it’s fun, then move on to something else. At first, I’d only play a song, or five minutes. Today I’ve clocked an hour and a half! And it’s still fun! And I’m not hurting as much as I used to.
And a new writing goal: 500 words a day starting today. And work 4 scenes a day on Folie ร Plusieurs. But TrackBear is being a BEAR! So I need to find another way to keep track. I did get 637 words in a zoom sprint with Yvensong.
How was your Friday finale?
The other socks are sitting quietly until I can get back in the groove.
With NaNo over I’ve made up my mind to write at least 800 words a day to keep the writing muscle activated.๐ค
With lots of sight reading of Christmas songs, I ran across this fun ditty. It’s being added to Lucy and Linus, and When Christmas Comes to Town songs to learn this season.
Only three more days of NaNo. I need 1,200 words tonight to be on track. It has been such an ordeal this time. It has been a rollercoaster of emotions. I’ll be glad to see December!
I’m trying to learn a couple Christmas songs. I’ve always wanted to play Lucy and Linus and now I’m also challenged by the song in Polar Express
I pulled out all the Christmas songs to play with.
The only knitting making progress are my experimental slipper socks.
No finishing here. Just cuties.
Well, back to work. Words to go before I sleep…
I do more chart reading and math in November than any other time of the year. (Yes, I met my goal for today. Time to sleep!)
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