“Just do 10 minutes if you don’t feel like training and you will find you rarely only do the 10 minutes“ Apply this to anything you find difficulty doing, and I’m sure it will work. You will find yourself doing more than the 10 minutes, and get some of those tedious jobs [like tidying my … Continue reading »
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Blah blah blah
Some days I can feel my brain thinking, but all I can hear is blah blah blah… This could be the worst or best blog I have ever written, or somewhere in between! Blah blah blah is where my little grey cells are at, and if I had a real human visitor, I suspect the … Continue reading »
The home straight…
Whilst I did not complete the NaNoWriMo challenge in November this year, I have been working on Kick off 2012 with Project 366, a challenge thrown out to bloggers using WordPress in December last year. The challenge was to write a new blog for every day in 2012. I didn’t create a new blog, but … Continue reading »
Daily writing, paddling, staying afloat
I follow a few writing blogs, and Live to Write – Write to Live is one of my favourites. A blog on this site written by Diane MacKinnon, Dialogue With The Internal Editor really sparked my writing mood and practice, and makes good sense. Yesterday I wrote about dementia, drowning, and paddling like a swan … Continue reading »
Dementia, NaNoWriMo and staying engaged
November is the month for National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo and I bravely (stupidly??!!) signed up to give it another go this year. I am way behind the 1600 words per day they suggest you write to keep up, but if I get all my other writing finished by the middle of next week, I’ll … Continue reading »
Diaries and travel logs
Since starting this blog and have started writing daily, it seems I simply cannot stop, and my personal writing goals are growing, and my days are mostly spent with my trust little pc. The words that spring forth are not often academic or even very intellectual, but I try for honesty and openness. Occasionally on … Continue reading »
Ramblings of the demented
There is no rhyme or reason to my thinking today, other than finding a recipe for my Project 366 Conversations and Recipes Page. I can’t find any of my blog drafts, cleverly but mysteriously filed away somewhere on my laptop, and can’t think of anything interesting to write about so I’m doing a bit of NaNoWriMo … Continue reading »
Christmas and petrol
Last week, if I had been a car, I wouldn’t have made it to the petrol station to fill my tank. The last few weeks and months have been quite the battle, between sharing my love around to friends, offering some of them tangible support, and dealing with the changes in my dementia, it has … Continue reading »
A slog for the blog
Well, not quite for my blog, but for NaNoWriMo and the Office of Letters and Light http://blog.lettersandlight.org/! I earned the superhero moniker and a gold halo on my wrimo site by making a donation of $100 to one of their programs. Amazingly, because of what I believed to be very meagre support, NaNoWriMo and the … Continue reading »
Raising my flag
There are days I feel despondent about the way I write or the words I use, as I read another bloggers beautiful words and think to myself, I wish I could write like that. It is with some trepidation I keep on blogging, that I kept on with the November NaNoWriMo project, and that I share … Continue reading »
The kid in the room full of horse shit
I did it! Woo hoo… I did it, and for that, you, my amazing supporters and cheerleaders deserve my love and sincere thanks. Now I have time to sit back and enjoy my first ever NaNoWriMo moment, think about what on earth to do with all those words and how to turn them into something worthwhile. I … Continue reading »
On the home straight…
Ok you lot, I’m back from the rehab physio, and almost back at NaNoWriMo but I had so many messages here and on my phone, I felt I should post a quick blog. I say, Get those hats on, and the glass of champagne or cup of tea in waiting, and keep cheering. Karen sent an … Continue reading »
The gift of dying
Yesterday was too much emotion for me to write for NaNoWriMo, and a lot of time needed for being with my sick friend and speaking to doctors and family and friends again. I did not have the emotional or physical energy to even consider writing the 2000+ words required for yesterdays November novel-writing goal. Oh … Continue reading »
Todays goal
10,000 words! That was my goal today. I started at 9am, three hours later than planned, but at 6am I thought, what the hell, it is Sunday, and stayed in bed to share the cup of tea made for me by my husband. As usual, the tea (which I usually make but was too lazy to get out of bed … Continue reading »
Will I give up?
This was the question I asked myself today about NaNoWriMo as I have quite some way to go to achieve my golden NaNoWriMo halo. Hell no, I said to myself, even though today, I feel like it! So this morning I wrote over 6000 words in a seemingly vain attempt to catch up. Then at lunch … Continue reading »
