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It has been a crazy Summer so far. We’ve had a couple of health scares with an elderly relative, a meet-up with other relatives from out of town, arranged some repairs to our house, and are partway through preparations needed before the workers are supposed to come. With everything that is going on, I have…

If you have read my posts, you probably know that I participate in NaNoWriMo, which is a yearly writing event hosted by a non-profit organization of the same name. I commit myself to the challenge, I use the word counter provided on their website, and maybe buy that year’s shirt. I don’t use their forums.…

Hello, everyone! It is May again, and the anniversary of this website. I checked my host provider; everything is up to date and ready to keep running for another year. Last time, I told you I was in the middle of sorting through an enormous pile of notes. That pile is not gone yet, but…

Once again, I have joined Camp NaNoWriMo April. The goal I chose is not a word count, but minutes; 1800 minutes, one hour for every day this month, shall be spent clearing out my notes cache. I intend to reach the bottom! If I finish with time left over, I will move on to fixing…

Well, if you read last month’s post, you know my personal project should be done by now. It would be done, except for a miscommunication. I have tried twice to submit the paperwork, only to be delayed by technicalities. Still, I think I have everything in line this time. It will be finished this coming…

Hello, everyone. My personal project is progressing well so far. I suspect this stage of it will be done around the next post. However, since this place talks about writing and my current main project is not related to writing, I have little news to share here. The further I get in sorting my files,…

Happy New Year, everyone! We have snow here, can you believe it? Well, maybe you can, but around here we have had years when we did not get any, and we are currently blanketed by eight powdery inches. You cannot even make a snowball out of this – it’s too cold! My odd New Year’s…

Oh, I was worried; not any more. Fifty thousand words in thirty days, and I have officially completed the 2023 NaNoWriMo challenge! So what if those words are scattered across four stories and various notes? Those stories rock! At least, they will when I tidy them up. Now to finish my previous stories, and plan…

Guess who is behind? Falling behind seems to be a common theme for this challenge. It is surprising, then, that so many who do fall behind still complete it. Miss a single day, or only halfway complete a day, and all those words left unwritten spread across the remaining time. Miss a second day, and…

…and I have a story. I grouped together all of my story ideas and whittled them down, and down some more. Twenty, twelve, nine – all of a sudden, only one story really fit everything I wanted this year. Fantasy, here we come! A lot of my runners-up got ruled out because they do not…