.Today is the 20th anniversary of Czechoslovakia’s velvet revolution, which in the end resulted in the replacement of the Communist government by a democracy. Actually the disturbances started slightly earlier, when we were in Prague.* October 28th was the anniversary … Continue reading
Day 16 of NaNoWriMo Have reached 30,000 words – half way through my target of 60,000 words for the month. And in weird news from Malaysia: A villager was savagely attacked from behind by a predator cow that almost ripped … Continue reading
More from Daily Diversions For Writers by Debbie Ridpath Ohi:(Honestly, this site is worth checking out on a daily basis if you are a reader or a writer – never mind the NaNoWriMo) … Continue reading
NaNoWriMo news first. Tomorrow is the halfway mark. So theoretically, everyone should have 25,000 words completed. I’m already over that, but then I am aiming for a full count of at least 60,000 rather than 50,000, so by tomorrow night … Continue reading
. And who here should be ashamed of their inhumanity and lack of charity? The Huffington Post had these two separate stories linked from their site. Will Phillips, an elementary school student in Arkansas, refused to recite the Pledge of … Continue reading
.When I was writing yesterday’s blog, I forgot about about another incident that told us that the wall between east and west was about to crumble. In September 1988, my elder daughter – just turned 17 – asked if she … Continue reading
.I was living in Vienna. Vienna, Austria, that is. And the Berlin wall came down. We spent that night quietly at home, not listening to radio or TV, so knew nothing about the momentous happenings in Berlin late that day. … Continue reading
Here is some of the googling that brought people to my blog: Wearing wife’s stockings. (This one is an amazingly popular google item. Why bother to google it, people? If your spouse wants to wear your stockings, just tell him … Continue reading
Hard at work!! (as the morning wore on, another three people came…) On Saturday morning we had a write in at a coffee shop in Bangsar. Good fun to meet fellow NaNoWriMo folk. Most of whom did more writing than … Continue reading
.Interesting discussions going on in the blogosphere.Publishers Weekly, which is not uninfluential in the business, have named a list of 2009’s best adult books. Not a woman writer in sight. Wow. Here are some excellent comments about that.Look here from … Continue reading
