Can't talk, writing a novel
Just crossed the 5.5k mark. I'm aiming at 2,000 words a day and so far all of my characters are miserable, except the cat. Writing was hard the first day, it's flowing a lot better now.
The St Louis region is in a Word
More issues
The calm before the storm
'Twas the night before NaNo,
when all through the house
Not a keyboard was stirring, not even a mouse;
The laptops were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that a good plot soon would be there;
There are be St Louis NaNo'ers at the Steak
FO: Boudica socks
Did the last few rows today. Lunchtime knitting is replaced with lunchtime writing in November and I really wanted these done before NaNoWriMo starts. The fabric is very dense, and I love how the horizontal braids turned out.
Yarn: Wooly Wonka superwash BFL sock yarn
Pattern: MimKnits Boudica Socks
Duration:
NaNoWriMo strategies
National Novel Writing Month is approaching fast. The St Louis kick off party is on Sunday 28th at the Clayton Bread Co. from 4-6pm, Hubby and I will be there in our NaNoWriMo 2007 t-shirts. My basic rule of NaNoWriMo is "write every day and make at least one
Sock race
I am hurrying to finish the Boudica socks before the novelling madness starts on November 1st. One is complete, the second is at the gusset increases. I have learned a LOT from this pattern:
* Starting toe-up by knitting a flap and picking up stitches
* Correct way to do m1b and
2007 Ig Nobel winners
The 2007 Ig Nobel prizes are out! There is a BBC News article on it, and this is the full list. I think the Aviation prize is my favourite, though the chemistry one is a close second. I'll stick to chocolate...
Medicine
Brian Witcombe of Gloucester, UK, and
NaNoWriMo preparation
This year will be my fourth National Novel Writing Month, fifty thousand words all written in the thirty days of November. I have my plotbunny in hand and a list of odd things to research (the French Resistance in WWII, neutrino mass and energy, how unions work, etc.). Three more
Custard Creams for the win!
BBC News: The strange appeal of the custard cream.
The custard cream is the nation's favourite biscuit, suggests a survey. So why has it endured so long? They don't make them like they used to, it seems. The old-fashioned custard cream biscuit has annihilated its newer,
Socks and a destashing sale
The Boudica socks braid has a cable on every round which is slowing me down, this week I bottled out and got a size 0 circular. Five active needles plus a cable needle was twelve points to jab myself and it wasn't pretty.
I love the colour of
Word Wars
BBC News: Small object of grammatical desire.
It's small. It's flat. It's black. And according to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, its numbers are shrinking. Welcome to the world of the hyphen. Having been around since at least the birth of printing, the hyphen