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Trump Trumped!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/7118105.stm Breaking News - Donald Trump's plans to build tower blocks, houses and golf courses on 4,000 year old sand dunes with SSSI status have been rejected! I am lost for words over how ecstatic I am to be typing ... read more
Skewed Focus
After a brilliant beginning to NaNoWriMo where I felt great about myself and my productivity, I fell back into the Not Writing Habit. I'm looking at how that happened and of course the main reason is that I popped off to Glasgow for a couple of days last week and when I came back I didn't get straight back to the story. Glasgow was excellent. We went to see a concert on the Tuesday night and were entertained by Iced Earth (OK), Lamb of God (I was not expecting to enjoy them and I liked them ... read more
Nano Diary ~ Beating Procrastination
Today I came to my computer feeling ready to write. I even opened up my writing software and set up a new entry. Then I seemed to drift into invisible but cloying foam and no matter how many thoughts about writing I had, visions even of scenes playing out in my mind, I just didn't seem to make it to the job of actual typing. I bounced between thoughts of self congratulation for getting 8037 words down in 2 days to thoughts of "yes but they are done, now you need to reach another goal". I ... read more
Nano Diary
So today was Day 1 of Nanowrimo and I have outdone myself. I started my day by coming straight to the page and writing which is something I know works for me but for some reason I always forget to do. At the end of that session I had clocked 2156 words and was pleased to have over run the minimum daily word count goal of 1667. For some reason I threw my original starting character out and left him stranded in the 90s to step back in time 2000 years, and into the landscape of Scotland in a ... read more
Midwinter: Sun and Snow