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 …

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 …

I said I wouldn’t be posting every day…

I said I wouldn't be posting every day, but I did just want to try out this interface on the front page of the blog again to see if it works today. So, testing, testing 123!

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 …

PTSD

It's a never ending nightmare A long dark tunnel A permanent panic attack Pain in my chest Never feeling safe Down the rabbit hole Into unreality I'm reaching out Trying to slow my fall Wondering what is real Hoping I will wake up Holding in my rage But discovering I turned it in on myself

High Culture: Closed for the Winter

We started the day with Latin: Dragon-tamer orally going through the noun tables and verb paradigms we have learnt so far, and reviewing vocabulary, and finally doing a simple translation exercise that involved placing the correct words in sentences. He did quite well considering we only do it occasionally. Pony-rider listens in too. As we …

Why am I Hiding?

I dreamed a dream in which I was hiding, running, moving backstage through dark corners, behind curtains, around stairwells, navigating through a maze of books and belongings. I was in a school. I didn't know to begin with what I was hiding from, until I became aware that I was being pursued. I was being …

2014 in review – is anybody listening?

The WordPress.com stats people prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. I thought I'd share it as it's pretty, but it made me laugh at how pitiful it all sounds. It also has the opposite effect of the one intended - I feel so dis-inspired that I wonder whether it's worth bothering to blog …