July 2008

Yesterday we took our Swedish visitors to Canada’s Wonderland. It was a lot of fun and for once the weather cooperated. It was perfect, 26 degrees and dry. This was a great relief after visiting and trying to photograph Niagara Falls in the rain. At Wonderland we investigated a few roller coasters but wait times […]

Yesterday I managed to catch up a couple of days on my word count, leaving me only 1000 words short of target for that date. Not bad considering I also took my son for a bike ride and some tennis and went to a wild, singing party in the evening. I think I was home

I’m a little behind on my word count due to a two-day trip to Niagara Falls with my Swedish relatives. I think I was probably nuts to choose July as the best time to take on the write-a-novel-in-a-month challenge. Lots of people do reading challenges. Many of my favorite bloggers, for example, have multiple reading

In case any one reads this and thinks I’m creating a fabulous artistic work in 31 days, rest assured, if I put that kind of pressure on myself, I’d never reach the 50 000 word mark. The good news so far is that I seem to be naturally creating a related ‘A’ story and ‘B’

My one month to a 50 000 page ‘novel,’ (in length anyway) is almost over. According to the helpful schedule printed in No Plot No Problem (see previous) I should have written 30 006 words by the end of today. So far I have written 21 680, which is to say I am about four

I wasn’t supposed to do it. This summer I have so much to do. I promised the administration at my school that I’d have a musical written for the fall. I have guests coming from Sweden who will be in Canada for three weeks. I have my son home from school rather than in day