Tag: my first novel

• P.S. Tomorrow Comes

  

  P.S. Tomorrow comes. This letter I’d received yesterday is a blessing to read even with great struggles it has been awhile that someone has reached in as a friend this way with detail, and I met her years ago as pen-pal friend I’d been just getting to know when major life stress changes happened soon…

  03/15/2023 9:52 am

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• A Snowy Salon Day and Plenty of Art Already

  

  connecting with his inner lion 🦁, “Keep calm and carry on.”—😽Peeko The literary salon begins, that is, Miss May’s salon at home. I learn a new fun phrasing…place the phone away when not using it in a place, as if it is now naptime for the baby phone, and easy to take a break quickly…

  02/28/2023 10:02 am

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• A Bear’s First Bath and Other Little Writing News

  

  There was not much of a literary salon today, but there is no rigidness! Instead, mainly, a teddybear beauty salon…🧸 Alisi’s first bath, fur fluffed and gently brushed (left), sitting with Teddie, also bathed and brushed. Behind the bears you may see a notebook and pen where I am handwriting passages of my first novel.…

  02/21/2023 6:51 pm

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• Sewing Surprise, Novel Neatness, Painting, and Miscellaneous

  

  (Photo quote by literary salon host May Ziadeh) Sewing Surprise At the literary salon birthday edition much was shared in my own prayerful personal reflection at the start, and who knew I could mend my own winter coat? I have no problem having a tailor in town sew it, or hem pants. It’d been awhile…

  02/07/2023 1:43 pm

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• Two Poetry Reviews: with an Unconventional Possible Wedding Ceremony Poem

  I am still practicing my recitation of a favorite poem by W.B. Yeats for you, and it may be some time, as I continue my reading of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I did drop the book accidentally on the ground on the sidewalk, but I learned this is a pocket book not the…

  01/30/2023 10:16 am

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• Submitting My Abstract Paintings to a Gallery and Writing My Novel

  

  January 23, 2023 (corrected post) 🐱Peeko with my white jasmine flower art (not one I’d submitted) Corrected post: Today I entered a couple of my own original paintings into the Boston Museum of Fine Arts: correction; it’s the Juried Exhibition for Abstract Art in Mansfield, MA: I wasn’t sure about the place itself at first;…

  01/23/2023 3:18 pm

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• Morning Tea Party with New Winter Teapot

  

  A new teapot 😊 My novel notebook and pen are on the table to steep in ideas before I write them in…💕 I had been ‘wishing for it’ awhile, marked as a ‘winter and spring’ teapot. 🧚‍♂️ Thanks to my sister Jenna and brother in law Wally! I love that the gifts I received are…

  01/23/2023 3:13 pm

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• Snowfall during Morning Tea with Handwritten Letters

  

  Morning tea during snowfall, fluffy, twirling snowflakes; my cat Peeko is smiling at his reflection in the tv screen before he reclines for a nap. I sometimes sit in bound angle pose or butterfly pose in yoga, perfect size in this spacious chair, soles of the feet touching together, feels good for the hips, lower…

  01/20/2023 1:19 pm

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• Wellness, Water Hydration, My First Novel, First Week of Full Focus

  *The water intake change has really made me feel sufficiently well (the most normal I’ve felt) and not impulsive: I was just drinking water all the time thinking more must be better, but that was very likely washing away medicine and so less effective. While not staying thirsty, I am gradually drinking about 9 cups…

  01/15/2023 1:01 pm

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• Author at Work

  

  I’ve decided to work on my novel each day for about the five day week, myself immersed in the events and characters consistently, toward completion but enjoying this all. It’s in the Fantasy genre, Young Adult. And I am free to skip days. I will be starting a new painting soon, so I can alternate…

  01/03/2023 6:17 am

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• Writing My First Novel, A Glimpse of Thoughts on a Special Object Unnamed

  Home now. 🙂 Words written by hand tonight in my notebook for this novel, not typed up yet, just a free write that will be rephrased as part of an active scene to be written, which involve two main characters, and how they each feel or react to this same interesting object. I also wrote…

  12/09/2022 8:43 pm

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• Writing Your Novel, A Strategy: You May Start with a Question or Two of Choice in Real Life

  Writing can be in your mind or imagination, but building your story, it can really help as you write to get real life information just by asking an informal interview to someone of your choice you may find works in a field you know not much about. It does not have to translate the profession…

  12/09/2022 4:19 pm

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• 3 Things to Do Today in Balance

  …feat. photo: for a future project, this Jane Eyre I was given, with the gold stain. The idea: Write a “found poem,” but I will not cut out or glue any words from the actual book, just look through it and arrange the words I will write on my own paper. 🙂 After a needed…

  12/09/2022 12:30 pm

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• A Book of Essays on My Bookshelf for Years Unread—Read Today

  Reading Collected Essays by George Orwell, a book I’ve had on my shelf for many years, it was a gift from my sister one year, that I’d not wanted to read each time I’d picked it up over many years, but also did not give it away, it had felt like ‘for another time’, and…

  12/05/2022 3:35 pm

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• My Novel’s Progress Today, A Place to Pause for Now

  

  Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022 (blushing night skies receive my kisses) I consider what we may think others might expect from us and that we may be happier to surprise everyone naturally and pleasurably in writing or doing something, such as a novel, as you yourself find most interesting to write and read… …I’ve started writing…

  11/23/2022 10:07 am

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• Where?

  I am seeing time moving forward in days, weeks, and months, rather than as a single day with few hours, so I just keep writing my novel as much as I would like to each week, and time continues replenishing on its own… That leaves me at 2928 words to rest the whole weekend, a…

  11/19/2022 6:57 pm

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• A Very Cute Blue Cookie

  

  A poetic line came to mind just before I met the NaNoWriMo writers tonight…It brought me to the more center place in my story’s theme, as I was getting myself thrown into a corner before that in my draft. I told a little visual from my own draft to relate to the other writers’ stories.…

  11/18/2022 8:47 pm

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• Writing Point of View and Verb Tense in My Novel in Progress

  I thought I would keep myself away from my novel today with a thought of taking a little break, but it wasn’t so, I worked on it awhile today, and I am glad I did. One thing I’d found was that any narrator (first, third limited, third omniscient, or second – which addresses the reader…

  11/16/2022 3:20 pm

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• My First Novel in Progress, Finding the Genre and Audience: YA Fantasy, and On ‘Point of View’

  November 15, 2022, night I feel like I have more info now that my story completed could fit into the popular Fantasy genre for Young Adults. I wrote about 200 words tonight typed, and I am going to rest awhile at 2328 words total. 🙂 I read my typed draft, then I wrote at the…

  11/16/2022 9:57 am

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• NaNo More

  I just got in from a walk a little while ago before I had lunch. It’s literary salon Tuesday :), I wrote more of my novel draft this morning; I find the Word Count actually is very helpful for pacing. In a long work of fiction, events can happen more slowly than one may be…

  11/15/2022 1:27 pm

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• NaNoWriMo Write Together at Barnes and Noble

  This was my first NaNoWriMo meeting at Barnes and Noble this evening, Sunday. I’d arrived a little later than everyone else and was glad to write together with this very welcoming group of fellow writers, and the leader even gave us beautiful flower stickers sent from the NaNoWriMo organization as a celebration, I placed mine…

  11/13/2022 6:51 pm

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• So Begins Chapter Two, and Writing Together in Massachusetts

  

  Friday, FEATURED This one is black tea with almond milk, afterwards Another morning of green tea (gyokuru) followed by writing my novel, this time I wrote my draft of Chapter Two, but I feel that this chapter will still continue after the point that I stopped at at 1305 words today when I continue writing…

  11/11/2022 4:44 pm

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• A Selfie Moment

  

  I’ve started writing my first novel today. The characters may be fictional, but I took a selfie break, as I’d felt like today. And it has been, that I am actually real. I intend to write the characters to feel very real enough to let the reader step inside the story themselves. I have the…

  11/10/2022 3:00 pm

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• My First Novel Begins…Now

  

  up and up brand college ruled journal jumbo size found at target Here you can see my supplies, the notebook now written in some first pages (but not to see the words written, a surprise, of course). This paper calendar happening to match is for the story’s timeline, but I am not really near up…

  11/10/2022 11:07 am

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• A Teacup for Me, A Notebook Seen and Soon to Write

  

  I’d learned a lot about antiques, spec. teacups these months, and what to look for…I had a few small mistakes and I wanted just one more… This one showed up on Etsy and I thought, “That looks like a teacup just for me.” It has no cracks, which is necessary to check if you want…

  11/10/2022 7:36 am

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• Words Arranged, Well, These…

  

  night and almost morningtime (continues) What if this book I am reading could be done and I can close it and move onto a new one? Is it fair I judge the book by the author’s name and opening sentence, if it’s a pen-name too? Only teasing a little, but the novel is just a…

  11/10/2022 5:48 am

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• Writing a Novel 1st Day: Queset House, MA

  It was a lot of fun writing my first event for NaNoWriMo at the Queset House behind the historic Ames Library near where I live in MA. I hadn’t been in that ‘House’ before which is a public place; it was like stepping into someone’s old Victorian House in the victorian era itself. I was…

  11/05/2022 6:17 pm

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