.jpeg?picon=3479)
The first week is over and I'm feeling good about things. I have over 20,000 words in the first week, which is way ahead of schedule. My friend and fellow author finished NaNoWriMo in just 5 days! That's 10,000 words per day! You can read how she did it here: http://heatherjustesen.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-i-won-nano-in-five-days.html
Leaderboard:
1. Writer Mike 16,925 (as of November 6th)
2. Robin: 12,987 (as of November 6th)
3. Misha: 3,389 (as for November 2nd)
Word Count:
Writing tip of the Day:
Copy and paste is your friend. If you are writing a long passage involving a repeated character name, it might be easier to copy the name once and then hit a quick ctrl + V whenever you want that name to appear. It is two keystrokes opposed to having to write out the whole name. This is especially useful if you have a character with an unusual name, such as the main character of the book I'm writing now: Xandir.
New Blog Hop Starting Tomorrow:
Get ready for the November Blog Hop. Stop by tomorrow for details.
1 Comments on NaNoWriMo Day 7: First Week in Retrospect, last added: 11/7/2011
Display Comments
Add a Comment
By: Susan Mitchell,
on 9/7/2009
Blog: It's A Whimsical Life (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: doll, Little Red Riding Hood, day 7, A spoonful of creativity a day, Add a tag
A spoonful of creativity a day
Day 7
And another teaspoonful today. The holiday and a long bike ride curtailed the creating today, but we had a lovely day and it was well worth it.
So, today, Little Red got a new pair of boots made from red felt and some cute buttons:
And a skirt made from a cuff of an old shirt. I think my original Little Red who is looking on, approves:
Next, a top and of course, a red cape...
3 Comments on , last added: 9/9/2009
Display Comments
Add a Comment
By: crystal driedger,
on 5/6/2008
Blog: Scribbled Business (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: 21 day creative challenge, humanoid, day 7, mac program, error reports, lepoard, crashes, Add a tag
Blog: Scribbled Business (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: 21 day creative challenge, humanoid, day 7, mac program, error reports, lepoard, crashes, Add a tag
Have any of you switched to the Lepoard operating system for Mac? Well... we did (at my part time job) and it's been really frustrating. Today I did a "clean" install (threw everything on my hard drive away then reinstalled lepoard to try and get rid of the program errors and crashes I've been having). So... while I was doing this (it took hours)... I did my next character in pen (until it died) then pencil.
Creature of the day: She's rather human in appearance, but is not a human at all. Not nymph or fairy or anything of this sort, she's rather to her own class. While she enjoys the finer aspects of being "humaniod" such as listening to her record player (built in 1968) at a soft volume, most of her free time is spent near a bubbly brook talking to flowers and coaxing insects to nest in her hair.
Once again: Be the first to name this creature... (I may make prints of this one so it will have more impact than the others!)
7 Comments on 21 Day Creative Challenge: Day 7 Nairi, last added: 5/17/2008
Display Comments
Add a Comment
By: Paintgranny,
on 11/12/2007
Blog: Middle of Nowhere (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: wood blewits, tawny funnel cap, mushroom gathering, wood blewits, tawny funnel cap, Add a tag
Another mushroom hunt, on a dull, damp Sunday afternoon, with the woodlands glowing softly against the grey sky in shades of saffron and mustard. It began to rain. I found an old tube of extra strong mints in my anorak pocket. Even less fungal activity than before, but the pine enclosure did not let us down - a beautiful lavender crop of Wood Blewits, which should last for a few days...
And nearby, a large congregation of these fellows. Yet again my trusty mushroom book seemed to have the perfect match - Clitocybe Inversa. Description - tick. Picture match - tick. Growing in spruce land - tick. But we have never eaten this before. Back home with a healthy pink glow and mugs of hot chocolate, we got out our other fungi books and Googled. The first thing we do before trying a new species is to check, check and check again - and to make sure it can't be confused with anything poisonous.
Now a little confusion set in. It probably was Clitocybe Inversa, but another book had an identical looking picture labelled Clitocybe Flaccida. Googling almost made the situation worse - it also looked identical to Lepista Inversa, which also ticked the right boxes? Oh, hang on, apparantly, Clitocybe Inversa has a variant called Clitocybe Flaccida. But Wiki says that Clitocybe Flaccida is the new name for Lepista Flaccida...and they all look the same...ah, that would be something to do with there being a 'generic revision' between Lepista and Clitocybe - so they used to be different but now they are the same. According to the boffins.
But the good news was whatever you choose to call it, they are edible. Conclusion - much easier to call it by its common name - Tawny Funnel Cap. Cuts to the chase and tells it how it is; it's tawny. It's funnel shaped. And very nice when fried, and served with meatballs and gravy. Andy said they were a bit tasteless. I said they were free.
0 Comments on All in the name... as of 1/1/1900
Add a Comment
By: Paintgranny,
on 11/5/2007
Blog: Middle of Nowhere (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: mushroom gathering, earth ball, wood blewits, wild mushroom casserole, shaggy parasole, sulphur tuft, orange peel fungus, Add a tag
The mushroom season is late. No rain, just heavy autumn mists. But at last, something called from deep within the woods...
...it might have been the death groans of this monstrous Earthball...a grotesque behemoth, and sadly inedible.
It could have been the trilling of this little dandy chap, an Orange Peel fungus, from the Elf Cup family. Lovely to look at, apparently edible according to this site, but not to our guide books - and more fit left as a jewel in the grass than fried in the pot...
... or was it the bellowing of a big shambling herd of Shaggy Parasoles, caught by Andy in a clearing, and quickly harvested before they could escape?
Perhaps it was the thin and reedy keening of the Sulphur Tuft, sickly yellow, and horribly poisonous - unless you are a woodland creature. Under the pine plantation, where the badgers thrive in their underground metropolis, they are nibbled and uprooted beneath the November moon.
But no, the call was the joyous song of our first Wood Blewits; a perfect match in the book I have had since I was eight. Lavender in colour, meaty in texture, and just waiting for my little knife to cut them free from the bonds of the piney earth.
Every cap is checked for internal inhabitants, wiped clean and fried - especially the dear little Wood Blewits, which need to be cooked thoroughly to avoid the mild allergic reaction they can produce in some people. Puffballs are examined for the slightest sign of yellowing, and discarded if not pristine white inside. The only time I gave myself an upset stomach from a wild mushroom was by eating an aging Puffball when I was eleven. Never again.
Into the pot, with five roasted chicken thighs, a tin of black eyed beans, sauteed leek, various bits of This and That, garlic, herbs, gravy...left in a medium oven for a couple of hours...and eaten before anyone had time to take a photo...
There is so much studio work to be done. But at this time of year, when the calling is strongest, half of my heart lies here...
19 Comments on The calling, last added: 11/10/2007
Display Comments
Add a Comment
17133 today! Scootching past the 1/3 mark.