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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Post Thanksgiving

Yesterday was the first day I didn't touch my novel since the start of November. Felt weird not to go to the laptop, open the file, check for spelling errors, load the wordcount into the spreadsheet, the whole routine. Not that I didn't go to the

NaNoWriMo Winner!

Fifty thousand four hundred and sixty five words in twenty five days. I've won! Printed out my winner's certificate, printed out the whole novel. I did it!

Thankfulness

* Hubby * Tim and Ceci over for dinner * Making fajitas for dinner * Thanksgiving day with Rox and Eric tomorrow * Bob the turkey * First snow that didn't last long enough to cause serious trouble * Being less than two thousand words away from the end of my novel * Four day weekends

Newsflash: Novelist killed by deadline

Sugar free Redbull first thing in the morning is a bad idea. I'm still sleepy, but I'm buzzed and twitchy too. Nasty combination. This last week I've really slowed down on my novel. I've been writing less than two thousand words a

Saint Delia Online

Norma found her first. Delia Smith, patron saint of British cookery and promoter of cranberries, is online in all her recipe-providing goodness! Check out these recipes: * Easy chocolate truffles * Venison Steaks with Cranberry Cumberland Sauce * Traditional Christmas Pudding * Luxury Fish Pie Those chocolate truffles were almost my undoing as a

Scale, and lack thereof

The BBC website says we're in for heavy snow on Wednesday. Local radio said it would be an inch of snow in the morning. My English sense of scale has been irreparably damaged. A hundred miles is something you drive in an afternoon, not a place at the

Hello Spam

On my old blog, I had about two comment spams, probably because there was no automated way to blanket spam the blog. I had my first comment spammer today, shut him down after about nine hits. I hate spam. I'm researching spam blocking plugins. The sooner they allow

Roadmaps and plans

This was in the church bulletin on Sunday, along with a bunch of others. I liked some of them, but this one stuck out: Do you have any idea where you're going? - God "God Says" billboard It got me thinking. I'm not exactly

Typos

I am pathologically incapable of typing the words "of" and "something" at any speed. I have come up with at least three variations on "something." The novel is coming along, I just have to put the chess pieces in the right places. Right now

Heading for the finish line

I have seven thousand words left to go to complete the NaNoWriMo goal of fifty thousand words in thirty days. I think I'm going to make it. The novel is nearly seventy pages long, the longest thing I have ever written. There is one big confrontation to go,

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