Over the past week I’ve been working on two large sewing projects (along with my writing). Each project has a pattern with very lengthy instructions. For one project, I’m trying to make a stole, and the fifty page instruction booklet has these words on page 38. Now we will try to make the stole. from [...]
Category: writing lesson
Writing practice and a book recommendation
There’s a lot of advice out in the wild for people who are trying to write. Unfortunately, making this advice usable often requires figuring out what writing niche you belong in. Fiction or non-fiction? Poetry? Literary or genre? What’s the difference between the last two? Women’s fiction? Cozy mysteries? Why does ‘cozy’ sound so insulting, [...]
Where is that muscle?
I have discovered exactly where my hamstring muscle is, because I fell down last week. It’s kind of exciting because I thought that muscle was somewhere else, but the internet pictures all agree that it is the large muscle(s) on the back of the thigh. That’s definitely what I pulled, a large muscle back there. [...]
Writing, writing, writing like Napoleon **
I’ve been wandering around lately, looking blank and struggling to have simple conversations with people. I don’t have Alzheimers, at least not yet, but I am deeply immersed in writing. In the past few weeks work on my shepherdess novel, Jessamyn, has taken off. I have a word counter, and it says that, on the [...]
Blueberries and more
I am still struggling with the default font reset that WordPress has offered me for the last few weeks. In order to have the font I prefer I have taken to writing a bit of nonsense at the end of each paragraph. Then I set my cursor at the beginning of the trash, hit return, [...]