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Day Thirteen

  • May. 13th, 2008 at 11:32 AM
Is 13 your lucky number or unlucky one? Has it affected your progress? Do tell.

Please share your progress and excerpts here :)

Writing Prompt

  • May. 12th, 2008 at 9:59 PM
This week for inspiration, write about something unexpected that happens.  Some examples: A tsunami hits Kansas City; a bee begins to talk; suddenly everyone in the US begins to speak fluent Japanese.  Have fun with it! Don't let boundaries get in your way. 

Movie Recommendations?

  • May. 12th, 2008 at 10:35 AM
Okay, I know all my LJ friends are way more hip than I am, so I'm asking for your help. My kids are asking me for "More Japanese animation, Mama!" and I have no freaking clue. We've watched Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Castle in the Sky and a bunch of episodes of something called "Cardcaptor Sakura", which the kids picked up at the library and which makes no sense at all because we can't find the first episodes that explain what's going on, but the little flying rodent is pretty cute.

Spirited Away was almost too bizarre for me, and terrified Babette when she first saw it several years ago. We might try that again, but that big giant baby was too weird.

Would they like Princess Mononoke? I've always wanted to see that one, but never had a chance.

Any suggestions?

May. 12th, 2008

  • 9:18 AM


You are The Moon


Hope, expectation, Bright promises.


The Moon is a card of magic and mystery - when prominent you know that nothing is as it seems, particularly when it concerns relationships. All logic is thrown out the window.


The Moon is all about visions and illusions, madness, genius and poetry. This is a card that has to do with sleep, and so with both dreams and nightmares. It is a scary card in that it warns that there might be hidden enemies, tricks and falsehoods. But it should also be remembered that this is a card of great creativity, of powerful magic, primal feelings and intuition. You may be going through a time of emotional and mental trial; if you have any past mental problems, you must be vigilant in taking your medication but avoid drugs or alcohol, as abuse of either will cause them irreparable damage. This time however, can also result in great creativity, psychic powers, visions and insight. You can and should trust your intuition.


What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

Day Twelve

  • May. 12th, 2008 at 9:04 AM
I'm still waaaaaay behind, but I'm not feeling bad about it. How about you? Racing ahead? Falling behind? Where are you in the spectrum? Share your progress and excerpts here, if you please :)

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Day Eleven

  • May. 11th, 2008 at 10:20 AM
Post your day eleven progress and excerpts here :)

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Behold my pretty flowers!

  • May. 11th, 2008 at 8:35 AM
George got me a fuschia basket last weekend, then he got me a fuschia tree for Mother's Day. Fuschia trees seem to be very popular around here - you have to get to Costco right when it opens or they all sell out. So here are my pretty flowers:



I'm having lunch with my mother tomorrow and I'm almost done with a hat I'm knitting her, so I'm giving her that as a gift.

Babette made me some cards and a bead necklace which I am wearing right now. I hope I don't break it.

George is still asleep. He went and saw Ironman last night and came in very late and now he's sleeping in. Baboo is playing video games. Babette is reading "Matilda" because she has to read it before I will let her watch the movie.

Day Ten

  • May. 10th, 2008 at 10:26 AM
This is the place to share your day ten progress and excerpts. I'd love to say more, but I'm late getting my kid out the door to dance class. Wewps!

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Publication: 'Dust for Mickey' in Tragic Pens

  • May. 10th, 2008 at 11:02 AM
Hey everyone! I hope Writo de Mayo is going well for you all.

I just wanted to let you know that 'Dust for Mickey' has been published in the online flash fiction 'zine Tragic Pens!

You can find it here.

This originated from the Word Prompt challenge and I wanted to thank you all for helping mould it and cheer me along!

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NaNoLJers Related Publishing News :)

  • May. 9th, 2008 at 1:29 PM
Wrong Turn is a story I wrote last year which was inspired by the WotW "Labyrinth". It was originally published by Sorcerous Signals in November 2007 and was chosen to be included in the Sorcerous Signals 'Best of' anthology for 2007 -- Arcane Whispers.


On Sale Now :)


Also, the story I'm best known for, Sister Margaret was found to be suitable for inclusion at Anthology Builder and is now available there. Sister Margaret was written in response to a character sketch assignment posted here on NaNoLJers a couple years ago.

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Last Day of Vacation

  • May. 9th, 2008 at 12:04 PM
The ocean is made of marvelous stripes of teal and greeny-brown and farthest out, a chill serene blue. I just came in from taking pictures of the dolphins swimming along the beach, and was lucky enough to have a vee of pelicans swoop and dive through the frame at one point. The weather is contradictory - sunlight while rain is falling, undiluted sun, and then clots of heavy, solid rain. It's the day for everyone doing their last things - finishing up conversations, stocking up on salt water taffy for friends back home, a final walk along the water.

Tomorrow is for traveling, but Sunday I'll catch up on e-mail and discussion boards and all the other bits and pieces I've been away from this week. I just wanted to let you all know how marvelous the dolphins are.

The Rather Difficult Font Game

  • May. 9th, 2008 at 6:56 AM
Click here!

I'm off to Seattle to shop at Uwajimaya (Rement mini meals, Hello Kitty tchotchkes and I hope some Pokemon stuff - seriously, I'm really ten years old). Then the fortune cookie factory, then Chinese food. Woohoo!

But first, I have to wake up the kids and get them moving. So I'll see you on the flip side - with pics, I hope!
So first I have to say a huge and belated thank-you for all the lovely birthday wishes ♥, and also to reassure: you have not missed the first chapter of Victory of Eagles! I am impatiently waiting for a pretty and nicely typeset PDF file from my editor, which I am assured is on its way any day now. (This will be going out on the Temeraire mailing list, which you can join/leave whenever you like at www.temeraire.org, and I will announce and post here afterwards as well.)

I would also like to point you all to the extremely shiny jewelry auction currently underway to benefit the Interstitial Arts Foundation, the publishers of Interfictions. Fabulous stuff for a fabulous cause! (You can also subscribe to [info]iafauctions to follow the auction as new pieces are added one by one.)

Life has been a little mad lately mostly for very fun reasons, particularly because I ended up with three separate theater dates in six days -- the one I had planned, and the two unexpected sets of birthday presents. My verdicts: Macbeth: director Rupert Goold & Patrick Stewart both brilliant, see this if you possibly can. Rent: great dancing and fun energy, but badly over-amplified. Dangerous Liaisons: fabulous costumes and a Valmont I actually believed in as a seducer, some v. clunky dialogue in bits, rape scene extra-creepy because Cécile didn't feel like a period character.

Then there was the Cinco de Mayo get-together and the lunch with family and the planning for the Victory of Eagles launch and tour and somewhere in there there's been some OTW meetings, and recruiting another twenty coders and another forty revisions committed to the archive code, and finishing a short story (set in the past of the Temeraire universe, for Gardner Dozois's upcoming DRAGONS anthology), and hours watching david cook performances on youtube, don't mock me, and at the end of it all there is a slightly enervated me. *forms puddle and quivers*

And on that note, I will now go to bed before it hits 4am, oh dear.

Iris and Alice

  • May. 8th, 2008 at 4:03 PM
My haute couture iris from Cooley's Gardens appeared this year. The color is somewhere between pink and peach. Amazing. Also the gladiolas are coming out, and the blue hydrangea is going to be a star. Myrna wanted more pics of Alicie Walicie before she grew up too much, so I have some of those, too. Enjoy!






































WoTW Story: Dragon/Forgotten.

  • May. 8th, 2008 at 4:10 PM
Hello again, [info]nanoljers. It's been a pretty long time since I've been around here with anything, let alone a WotW story, which I've been trying and currently not succeeding to write more diligently.

Anyway. Here's a 525-word story based on the prompts "dragon" and "forgotten." This features characters from and may or may not end up in my incomplete novel. It also features some fairly coarse language, if anyone's sensitive.

...he needed a cigarette. )

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What's today again?

  • May. 8th, 2008 at 11:21 AM
1. I can't find my muffin tins, which is annoying because I want to make raisin bran and banana muffins today. I really need to unpack more in the garage.

2. I also can't find Molly and Shu Lien. They must have been put in an AG box together and not labeled well. Perhaps they are with the muffin tins.

3. Another thing I can't find: my monitor cable. So annoying.

4. I had to take appetizers to the school this morning for a staff appreciation lunch. I'm trying so hard to be a good suburban mother! I've met some nice people though, so yay!

5. I took advantage of the AG free shipping today. I ordered "Welcome to Kirsten's World" and Polly and her cradle. Don't hate me, anti-Polly faction. I think she's cute! And she can share her cradle with Esther, who has been sleeping in a cardboard box which is very upsetting to me and Addy.

6. Another thing I can't find: my sewing machine. I can find the serger, but I can't find the Viking. Perhaps George should buy me a new one for mother's day!

7. I am quite taken with my Pokemon icon.

8. Tomorrow Baboo and I are going to Seattle to meet his class from the previous school. We are going to shop at Uwajimaya, and go to the fortune cookie factory and buy big bags of the unfortunate cookies. Woo hoo!

wotw - forgotten

  • May. 8th, 2008 at 6:20 PM

only 188 words but it adds to todays totals. Decided my 30k will include Everything fiction wise i write this month.

He sat in the doorway, collar pulled up against the bitter chill of the wind. The tattered coat tugged tightly round him offered little in the way of protection but it was all he had. By his feet sat his one friend, a dog called Reg. Any money he got went towards feeding him first. As long as there was enough left for a mug of tea and a roll he'd be fine.

Scraps of newspaper tucked inside his boots would stop his feet from freezing tonight. His breath hung in the still air. He'd been colder and hungrier but the people passing him didn't know that. they didn't know him or what he'd done.

To this generation he was an unknown, but it was because of him and others like him, that they had the freedoms they had now. The medals on his chest worn with pride but hidden from view in case he was beaten up for them. Another sign of the time. He was a forgotten hero, a memorial to an old world, lost in a new world that didn't remember or even care to.

 

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Day Eight's Progress

  • May. 8th, 2008 at 10:56 AM
This is the place to share your day 8 progress and excerpts :) Don't forget we'll be having a friend-locked entry tomorrow for the same thing, so if you're nervous about posting excerpts, that might be a good time for you to do it :)

We also need a weekend challenge, don't we? Post your ideas here and I'll pick one and post it up later this afternoon.

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Word of the Week: Forgotten

  • May. 7th, 2008 at 10:24 PM
Your challenge, should you chose to accept it, is to take this Wednesday's Word of the Week and use it as inspiration for a piece of flash fiction. We used to set a 500 word limit, however, to change things up a bit we took the word limit away but encourage you to tell a complete story in 1,000 words or less. Please feel free to share your work with us as a separate post or a comment to this one but if you'd rather not that's cool too :)

This week's WotW is: Forgotten


If you do share as a separate post, please use the tag 'wotw story' not 'wotw' :)

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May News

  • May. 7th, 2008 at 5:49 PM
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