Spring is officially in the air - we've had some really warm days, the lawn has awoken from its winter lull and my thoughts turn, as always, to that special day in November.
Melbourne cup day? Remembrance day? Nope, 1st November! Day one of NaNoWriMo or National Novel writing month. I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with NaNo. I love the freedom of being able to write above all else and focus on the goal. I hate that I can't manage to replicate it any other time in the year. So, am I NaNo-ing in 2015? Having missed last year, I'm going to get stuck with a futuristic first draft. So far I've got nothing. Just the plan to write 50K and the genre. Wish me luck. One of the things that really suffered through our moving house, minor renovations and the arrival of a puppy is reading. One of the first things I packed was the books. On the weekend I had some hard choices on what to keep and what to get rid of, having pulled 4 cartons of my books back from the storage shed. After a tough few hours, I now have one carton of keeper books and to-be-read books.
So what am I reading at the moment: Paris in Love - handbag book- snippets of a year in Paris with Eloisa James. The Land of the Painted Caves - bedside table - this book will be the end of me. I rushed out to buy it the day it released, and yet I can't read more than a few pages at a time. It seems to have lost the magic of the first five in the series and the ONLY reason I'm still going is that I've invested a lot of time in the first five books and I want to see how Jean M Auel finishes Ayla's story. Have decided to read the paragraphs that start with dialogue and skip every description of every cave and every journey between caves. Australian Geographic - couldn't go past the Kelpie on the cover and inside I found an article on Mortuary Station in Sydney which is one of my all time fascinations. I so want to visit it. Australian Country Style - Christmas 2014 edition - I'm writing a Christmas scene and what better way to feel Christmassy in September? (Ok, so Woolworths has fruit mince pies and puddings on the shelves this week, so I could eat fruit mince pies!) Health and Fitness - Is your desk making you fat? How could I not throw this into the mix? Hubby suggests reading the article while eating Scotch Finger biscuits is probably not helping... So that's my reading pile at the moment. What about you? There's something special about a RWA conference - it sparks my writing motivation and I love that. So what about my goals:
The rest of my list is ticked off, so I guess I'd better start working on what I want to achieve next year. How are your 2015 goals coming along? |
Fiona Greene AuthorWhen you set out on a journey and night falls, that's when you will discover the stars." Archives
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