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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

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 sure

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,

Settling in

Sehlat sent me an email last night saying "Your blog's disappeared!" It's all back now. Sehlat gets a gold star for finding the blog in the few minutes after I renamed the old directory and before I created the new one while I was

Woo Ha!

Got my forty thousand words! Hubby is fetching Buffy season seven from his car! Yay!

Recipe: Kedgeree

I had a recipe book on the counter while I was making kedgeree Monday night and what I made bore no resemblance to the book, the recipe's been wildly modified. So this recipe is my version of kedgeree. It's comfort food, feel-good food, Anglo-Indian

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