The Best Laid Plans…

Well life has a way of laughing at our plans and diverting them. First of all I had to abandon NaNoWriMo by the second day because my old laptop had a fatal failure and couldn't be fixed any time soon. My husband managed to get me a newer (borrowed) one but by the time that …

Three Dreams

I know I had three separate dreams because I woke up twice in the night but of course, frustratingly I can't get hold of the first two. I'll start with the most recent one which I can remember, and see if the other two reveal themselves I'm sure this dream began at the house in …

Quick Nano Update

This is Day 7 and I have suprised myself by keeping up with the daily word goals for Nanowrimo, which you can find here: https://www.wikiwrimo.org/wiki/Word_count, and in fact I've mostly managed to stay ever slightly ahead, which is what I have preferred to do when I have made serious attempts at writing novel projects for …

Happy NaNo!

For anybody unfamiliar with the Phenomenon which is NaNoWriMo, it is a kind of global writing competition that anybody can join, and you win by successfully reaching 50,000 words by the end of November. I have attempted it perhaps 5 times now, and 'won' maybe 3 times. The idea is to edit in December and …

October Anniversaries

I'm feeling a bit out of sorts today. October is always a bit of a downer. Not only is it Baby Loss Awareness Month, but it is also the anniversary of my own personal loss - of my twins. Thankfully, the weather has not caught up with the seasons, so the bright sun and blue …

NaNoWriMo: On Procrastination

I am a terrific procrastinator. I seem to be terribly good at it. I have written a couple of blog posts elsewhere already today, and I have even done most of my housework (which is usually what I'm procrastinating to avoid, ironically) - all to avoid the thing which I am finding the hardest, which …

Well okay then Today it works In which…

Well, okay then! Today it works! In which case, I may well go ahead and do what I said I would do right at the inception of this blog, which is to post small updates regularly. Microblogging, even! (Who needs Twitter?!) My life is currently consisting of trying to keep up with housework (not my …

Writing Again?

Hello, I just thought I would write a quick update to say that, since my circumstances have changed again for the better, I plan to restart blogging and writing generally. I am also planning to write for NaNoWriMo as well though, so don't expect daily posts or anything! As you can see, I have updated …

Dream Fury

I'm not really here, I'm really writing NaNoWriMo, but for some reason, my dreams at night are running rampant, so I thought I'd share them! I woke up so furious from a dream, I felt as though my blood were boiling. For some reason I was back in [that other place], and offering to do …

Zombie Apocalypse?

I woke up in a cold sweat again, this time I dreamt that the Zombie Apocalypse, or something, had happened - I didn't see any zombies, in fact I had no idea what had happened in this dream scenario, but something had. I was with my family (not my real family, these were people conjured …