I can't believe that it has been so long since my previous post! Where does the time go? We have, like Martha, been busy with many things.
We have had lovely Heralds visiting us [yes, that is you, Brothers Arthur and Brother Louis Miguel from London, accompanied by two other delightful Herald Visitors here in England for the Pope's visit. Some of their wonderful photos of many places of interest in England will begin to appear here: http://heraldsgospelsinengland.blogspot.com/]
Since then we have had the usual rush of autumn commitments which has kept us busy, and now we all have a bad 'dose of the cold' which inevitably lowers our energy levels. Hopefully however, we are beginning to get back to normal. Just in time because my daughter and I have a something interesting in the offing. We are participating in the amazing, world-wide phenomenon of NaNoWriMo.
You have never heard of it? Well, neither had I until Charlotte introduced me to it. She loves to write, and although she has as yet nothing published, she already has two novels under her belt. I write, but not fiction, and only for private consumption. However, this seems such a fun project that I just can't resist.
Participants have to write 50,000 words of fiction during the month of November. Quite an achievement in itself, and clearly it is quantity rather than quality which is sought. The editing and polishing of the precious manuscript comes later on, but the serious point of the exercise is to kick-start the actual writing. After all, how many of us say that 'one day' we will write a novel, or biography or whatever, but we never actually get round to it.
So today my daughter are going public with our ambition to achieve this, on the basis that once anyone else knows about this ridiculous ambition, we will do absolutely anything to make sure that we achieve it. Fear of public failure and ridicule is a great motivator - so watch this space!
And perhaps someone else out there would also like to have a go at this very exhilarating attempt? If you are, you can find everything you want to know at:
http://www.nanowrimo.org/
We have had lovely Heralds visiting us [yes, that is you, Brothers Arthur and Brother Louis Miguel from London, accompanied by two other delightful Herald Visitors here in England for the Pope's visit. Some of their wonderful photos of many places of interest in England will begin to appear here: http://heraldsgospelsinengland.blogspot.com/]
Since then we have had the usual rush of autumn commitments which has kept us busy, and now we all have a bad 'dose of the cold' which inevitably lowers our energy levels. Hopefully however, we are beginning to get back to normal. Just in time because my daughter and I have a something interesting in the offing. We are participating in the amazing, world-wide phenomenon of NaNoWriMo.
You have never heard of it? Well, neither had I until Charlotte introduced me to it. She loves to write, and although she has as yet nothing published, she already has two novels under her belt. I write, but not fiction, and only for private consumption. However, this seems such a fun project that I just can't resist.
Participants have to write 50,000 words of fiction during the month of November. Quite an achievement in itself, and clearly it is quantity rather than quality which is sought. The editing and polishing of the precious manuscript comes later on, but the serious point of the exercise is to kick-start the actual writing. After all, how many of us say that 'one day' we will write a novel, or biography or whatever, but we never actually get round to it.
So today my daughter are going public with our ambition to achieve this, on the basis that once anyone else knows about this ridiculous ambition, we will do absolutely anything to make sure that we achieve it. Fear of public failure and ridicule is a great motivator - so watch this space!
And perhaps someone else out there would also like to have a go at this very exhilarating attempt? If you are, you can find everything you want to know at:
http://www.nanowrimo.org/
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