I learned counted cross stitch when I was younger, but I never really did much else with it in the years since. Over the past few days. I’ve been working on a project using multiple types of stitches (called a ‘sampler’). The pattern and instructions can be found here. I made a few modifications (some […]
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After two years of trying to catch an eclipse (lunar or solar, we weren’t picky), tonight my husband and I were finally able to see lunar eclipse. It was amazing! (To be honest, I think it’s actually still going on as I type, but that doesn’t change the fact that it was amazing!) We couldn’t
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Last May, I finished a rewrite of my first book. This is the first draft written under a newly redesigned plot and story structure. While much of the story follows the same lines as the original, this new take should allow for more consistency moving forward. I began by reading through the draft, after allowing
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So, over the last couple weeks, I have very much been in a crafty mood. Not for anything in particular. In fact, for quite a few different things. I have a blanket I have been knitting on and off for quite some time now, and lately I have been making some really good progress with
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Greetings! For those of you who are not familiar with National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo or NaNo, for short), the goal is to write 50,000 words between 1 November and 30 November. The idea is that having a set goal and a set deadline will help with progressing toward writing a novel. A couple things
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One thing that always seems interesting to me is that an author’s writing style and their stories are not necessarily linked. I have heard many people say they cannot get through Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings because his writing style and descriptions are so verbose that they get bogged down while reading the books.
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In about a week, November 1st will begin National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). For those who don’t know about NaNoWriMo, the goal is to write 50,000 words in the span of the 30 days from November 1st to November 30th. That breaks down to 1,667 words every day. While this may seem daunting, it is
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More and more it seems that books are being turned into films. Some of these films are done quite well. The Lord of the Rings comes to mind on my end as it follows much of the plot and characterization even though they had to change or leave out certain elements. Still, some of the
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One of the things I do when I read books is I try to view the story from a different perspective. Sometimes this involves a shift from first person narration to third person narration or vice versa. At other times, I pick a different character and imagine if the story were being told with that
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I am a writer. More precisely, I am a novelist. However, perhaps more importantly than that, I am a reader. Long before I began writing my own books, I was reading. Two of the first books I remember reading are Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner and Time Cat by Lloyd Alexander. Over the years, I have
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